LenweTasasartir Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 Hello,Have anybody got four (or more :>) 22nF Styroflex caps?I can't find them anywhere! I was in ~10 shops in Cracow, checked in e-shops where I've bought parts, searched on Allegro (polish Ebay ;)) and... found nothing.Regards,Lenwe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMaster Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 Hi, styroflex is simply another name for polystyrene capacitors. Local shops rarely carry them, but a decent online store should have some (Farnell, for example has 22nF polystyrene caps. They're far from cheap though.)By the way, if you don't need a specific type of capacitors, polyester and polypropylene capacitors (they are much more common) will replace them without problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LenweTasasartir Posted March 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 Ok, thanks for help. I'll buy MKT caps tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMaster Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 You saw the price tag at Farnell? ;DThe MKT polyesters will work fine. By the way, polypropylene caps are said to sound better (probably an unnoticeable difference anyways / totally subjective), but they fail after a shorter time, so the polyesters are better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LenweTasasartir Posted March 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 No, i haven't. I just know, that MKTs are in shop near my school. Costs around 1,5PLN (1/3 Euro).About sound differences - is it like audiophile tuning? "Change of power cord to gold one provides deeper low, and cleaner high and better stereo"? ^^EDIT:Prices at Farnell:Polystyrene - €1.69Polypropylene - €1.51Polyester - €0.198Now i know, that polysters are the cheapest ones :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMaster Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 About sound differences - is it like audiophile tuning? "Change of power cord to gold one provides deeper low, and cleaner high and better stereo"? ^^Pretty much --> BS to sell expensive products. Deeper low, cleaner highs, better stereo image, depth, etc. This is not the effect of better components but the effect of willing to hear something different. You have to do ABX blind tests to see if there's really a difference if someone just replaced a component without comparing directly and said it sounds better, then don't trust it (most audiophile mags, for example). However, different capacitor types have different characteristics on an oscilloscope, but the difference is so small (you won't hear it in a blind test) that it doesn't make a difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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