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  • Flux_Cap
    New Member
    • Aug 2018
    • 9
    • USA
    #21
    Re: Help for Newbie on measuring capacitance

    This I'm sorry is called audiophoolery!
    You seriously can't think that a 70 year old capacitor sounds the same today, with how much it has degraded, compared to how it sounded when it was new?
    Audiphoolery or not, there is a multi million dollar business out there for vintage guitar parts. The belief is that a 60 yr old capacitor will make a new guitar sound like a 60 yr old one; along with old pots and pickups made with old magnets and old wire, etc., etc.
    Last edited by Per Hansson; 09-05-2018, 01:00 PM. Reason: fixed quote

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      • Per Hansson
        Super Moderator
        • Jul 2005
        • 5895
        • Sweden
        #22
        Re: Help for Newbie on measuring capacitance

        What is it they say, a sucker is born every minute?
        LOL, as long as they pay you for it it's fine I guess

        And if you're a believer I wont fret, there are people that believe in way stranger things than that
        Last edited by Per Hansson; 09-05-2018, 01:11 PM.
        "The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."

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