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audio
07-24-2003, 04:32 PM
Does anyone know anything about these Xicon capacitors? Are they decent or junk? Due to space limitations in my tube amp, these are the only brand that will fit.

Steve Hoffman
07-24-2003, 04:36 PM
Not a friggin' clue. I try not to look inside stuff!

Anyone else?

Drew
07-24-2003, 04:57 PM
The Bottlehead Paramours have come stock with XICON's in the power supply. I have no complaints. All the tweakers over in Audioasylum swear by Black Gate capacitors, but I have no firsthand experience with anything else but the XICON's in the PS.

I replaced a capacitor thats actually in the signal path at the output of my Foreplay preamp a few weeks back with an Auricap. Took about 3 weeks but I believe there's an improvement in transparency.