Need Help With Dayton Capacitors

**voice of the theater** · March 3rd, 2009, 11:26 AM

Great links--this gives me a lot to consider. Thanks!

**thinking** · March 6th, 2009, 11:48 AM

"Another conclusion is that during listening you rapidly gets used to the character of a certain filter. After switching back to the REF, the results can be rather overwhelming, knocking you straight off your feet at times. Even to a point where the REF start sounding... colored! This process can happen within minutes! It happened to us in several occasions."

I find this part of the R&D link interesting. I have heard before that the same thing happens with visual memory, that even the best of artists cannot "hold" a color in their memory and match it back up over time. I don't actually have a test reference for that, I've just heard it. Possibly the same is true aurally. Not to say that getting used to hearing defects or distortions is good, just that it happens.

**selmerdave** · March 6th, 2009, 01:12 PM

I suspect the original caps were 20% tolerance, so considering that 5% is a considerable improvement.

Dave

**westend9** · March 7th, 2009, 12:27 AM

"I find this part of the R&D link interesting. I have heard before that the same thing happens with visual memory, that even the best of artists cannot "hold" a color in their memory and match it back up over time. I don't actually have a test reference for that, I've just heard it."

I don't know. If you're ever in Amsterdam, take a trip to the Rijksmuseum that holds the Rembrandt portraits. You can view some of them from as little as a couple of feet away. That guy had color memory, spatial memory, as well. The painting of the Burghers (?) is painted from the viewpoint of being almost under the table and the light is something else.

As to the Daytons: The regular poly caps work good for me.