Claritycap mr

[Max N]

Question for Peter:
Are you planning to sell the new ClarityCap MR range?
Cheers
Max

[petercom]

Yes, we are, once we have finished testing and refining these new caps.

As you may have noticed we supply our own tested and tweaked versions of the ClarityCap range manufactured to our own eXacting standards. So our version will be the SONIQS MRX.

In fact we will be expanding the SONIQS range of components for our new catalog at www.soniqs.co.uk which will go live by the end of July. The SONIQS MRX will be added as soon as production starts in August.

In the meantime anyone who is interested in the physical factors that make capacitors sound different can read a white paper here. Interestingly, and unintentionally, this paper also indicates why we all like Paper In Oil capacitors so much!

[Richard]

Very interesting Peter - but I don't like Paper in Oil capacitors!

I see what you mean though - I liked them when I first tried them but after a while found they were too coloured and went back to plastic.

So, (charge/discharge) resonance causes these capacitor "flavours". At one point it mentions several octaves being covered by a single driver (presumably relating to the caps use in a speaker xover). I'd extend that to even more octaves being covered (hence bigger difference) when the capacitor is used as a full range coupling cap such as in an amp.

I've long felt that some caps are quite tolerable in limited bandwidth applications such as xovers but were not good as full band coupling caps. Many polyprops fall into that class for me - but - I have been impressed by the Soniqs polyprops recently used in WD3 having now swapped some out for a listen. They are very even-handed and do not have the usual top end tiz of polyprop - more like a higher resolution version of polyester.

This is a bit strange on first hearing, there is more detail but not the tiz that I keep expecting to accompany it. It also makes me realise that I'd become used to - and expected - some colourations.

I understand these are existing Soniqs caps and new ones will be different but feel many of the properties described in that white paper are audible in the existing ones. It will be very interesting to try the new ones

Rich

[Max N]

Thanks Peter
Like Richard I am looking forward to trying these.

[Steve Grimshaw]

Err.... anybody any idea what has happened to these? Perhaps some problem with manufacturing delays at ICW? Does anybody know if they are in production yet?

Steve Grimshaw

Hi Steve,

Yes, both the MR and ESA have been in production at ICW since May this year.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

Paul Dodds
Senior Engineer, ClarityCap

[S-Man]

Originally Posted by Richard

...and do not have the usual top end tiz of polyprop - more like a higher resolution version of polyester.


Rich

I totally agree, I find polyprops rather characterful.
In particular I did not like Sonicaps (very zingy upper mids) and the ICW Audio ones from Maplin sound fat and coloured.

The best value ones I have found are Wilmslow Supersound, these sound pretty even handed to me.

I won't be trying the new Clarity MR (MaxRip-off), I don't care how good they are.

I tried external crossovers and could hear no difference, so my XOs are inside the speaks. I also tried Noel's recommendation of putting the XO near the amp and biwiring - sounds slightly different but not any better IMHO..

[alnewall]

The best value ones I have found are Wilmslow Supersound

Definitely a bit of a bargain. Mine are years old, but have aquitted themselves well in quite a few different projects now.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by alnewall

Definitely a bit of a bargain. Mine are years old, but have aquitted themselves well in quite a few different projects now.

Were they Ansar Supersounds, black sleeved?