It’s not that old capacitors “go bad.” They do- But it’s that the original capacitors were not “audiophile grade” types to begin with. Not just the power supply electrolytics, or caps that test bad, but ALL caps. The single biggest improvement you can make to any vintage amp is replacing its capacitors with the correct “Audiophile Quality” types. Nevertheless, we all are patiently awaiting the long promised BG replacement and hopefully there will be a further improvement.When cooking up good sound, audiophile grade caps should be on the list of ingredients… The only downside is that the LF range is lacking fullness relative to BG and the price. In our book, the KAISEI caps are ones the better in production power supply capacitors available today. KAISEI are very promising capacitors indeed. KAISEI are one of the very revealing sounding caps out there. I would rather classify the KAISEI to be an improved cross between BG and the old out of production 350/500V Cerafines. Overall the new KAISEI are reminiscent of the old out of production Elna Cerafine 350/500V caps where KAISEI offer a significantly better bottom end and midrange qualities. Clarity and complete lack of haze on the mid top end is a very notable improvement of KAISEI over BG. In sum, KAISEI are not BG caps but are close in some aspects such as clarity are even better than BG. Similar price relative to the original Black Gate retail price.
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