Nor wanting to descend to the level of the playground but "you started it" with your BS insult.
I did not at anytime question your skill or competence. Of course the guitars sounded better. I don't suppose for one moment you just changed a ceramic capacitor and handed the instrument back, complete with old strings, sticky nut, buzzing frets and dodgy intonation?
The hundreds of radios, record players and tape machines I fixed as a service tech "sounded better" for my ministrations. The radios because I would have peaked up the IF and aerial circuits giving better sensitivity and selectivity. The record players got a clean/lube and new "rubber" and so lower rumble and wow and tape machines a clean and tape optimization where appropriate. Components were changed because they were faulty, not because of some concept of "better" capacitors or resistors.
The ceramic capacitor is in fact in many ways better than foil. They work well up to 1000MHz whereas foil can only manage 1meg tops. NOT that it matters for audio one jot.
People can of course do what they like and believe what they will. I shall continue to say selling 20p capacitors for 2 quid is ripping people off just as much as the $1000 Russ Andrews mains leads.
Now, RFR. can we agree to disagree like gentlemen and allow this thread to continue without name calling?
Dave.
I did not at anytime question your skill or competence. Of course the guitars sounded better. I don't suppose for one moment you just changed a ceramic capacitor and handed the instrument back, complete with old strings, sticky nut, buzzing frets and dodgy intonation?
The hundreds of radios, record players and tape machines I fixed as a service tech "sounded better" for my ministrations. The radios because I would have peaked up the IF and aerial circuits giving better sensitivity and selectivity. The record players got a clean/lube and new "rubber" and so lower rumble and wow and tape machines a clean and tape optimization where appropriate. Components were changed because they were faulty, not because of some concept of "better" capacitors or resistors.
The ceramic capacitor is in fact in many ways better than foil. They work well up to 1000MHz whereas foil can only manage 1meg tops. NOT that it matters for audio one jot.
People can of course do what they like and believe what they will. I shall continue to say selling 20p capacitors for 2 quid is ripping people off just as much as the $1000 Russ Andrews mains leads.
Now, RFR. can we agree to disagree like gentlemen and allow this thread to continue without name calling?
Dave.