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The Capacitor Mystique

Caps

There has been much written about the "sound" of various capacitors types used to build audio equipment. Guitar amp modders and builders have their own capacitor cults as well.

Thanks to Mark Durham, founder of the JTM45 Yahoo e-group, we present these pictures of popular capacitor types dissected to show their internal construction details.

  1. The classic ceramic cap.
    Legend:
      47J
      N220
      1KV
  2. A very unusual 2.1 nF domino cap.
    Legend:
      (Rd Bn Bk)
      (Gn Gn Bn)
      (2100 pF, 500v, 5%)
      MICAMOLD, Brooklyn, NY.
  3. A "generic" yellow tubular cap.
    Legend:
      IC
      MW .022
      630 V/K
  4. A Mallory 150-series yellow tubular cap.
    Legend:
      .047K
      400V EC1
  5. An unusual tubular ceramic cap from a Marshall volume control.
    Legend:
      500 10%
  6. An end view of this same cap.
     
  7. A Japanese metalized polypropylene cap.
    Legend:
      334K
      250V
  8. A modern silver mica cap.
    Legend:
      CMR06F471
      JODR JAN
      00863 SANG
  9. A tubular "Mustard" cap - the "Holy Grail" of vintage tube amp tone.
    Legend:
      0.1uF
      +/- 10%
      400v
  10. The popular Sprague Orange Drop 225 cap.
    Legend:
      SBE6PS-515
      153K 600V
      9846

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