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RE: Elna Silmic II caps?...

I like Silmic II. A musical capacitor IMO. They sounded good right away. Went a little duller and after 75 hours started opening up again. 100-150 hours and they will 'be there'. I do mix Silmic II with Nichicon top rated UKZ Muse in the coupling circuits. I think all Muse can be a little too sharp sounding thus the mix. Latest rebuilt receiver is an Allied 395 (Pioneer SX-1000TW). 55 watts RMS per channel. I replaced every capacitor. Used Nichicon Gold (2x 2200uF) in the power supply and Silmic II as speaker output capacitors. Also used CIS (Cree) Schottky in the two power supplies. You must use a heat sink on the HV diodes.

Next 'bad boy' on the bench is an Onkyo TX-2500 MKII at 40 watts RMS per channel. Due to room issues it gets Hexfred that do not need as much heatsink as CIS Cree that have too much leakage at high heat- keep the CIS Cree cool. I do not like op-amp phono stages that eliminates most 1774 to 1980 receivers. The Onkyo has a so-so phono stage even being all discrete. I think the phono electrolytic input cap is lousy, will replace with polypropylene.


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