Hi,
I have a beomaster 5000 that I recapped a little while ago; although the sound was much improved I did hear a little strange distortion in the vocals on one of my records and it got me worried that I may have accidentally used one or two low ESR caps or something like that. That may also not be the case but it reminded me that a few people have said to make the BM5000 sound better to change some electrolytic caps for polypropylene? I believe at one time there was a post about this but I couldn’t find it in the archive. I wondered if anyone could point me in the direction of which caps in particular benefit from the swap and what brand/range of polypropylene caps I should be looking at?
Thanks,
Martyn
Beomaster 5000 capacitor help
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Caps in the sound path are usually small types. 1uF-10uf are used.
Good material for the sound path are WIMA MKS-2 types...
They are available in RM5 size, can substitute usually every electrolyth standard cap.
Available in 5%, 10% and 20% quality, some selected in non magnetic and 2% ...
Usually in RED, they are a good replacement. Non magnetic and 2% are great... but you need a lot of material of 5% and a very good Cap tool to measure it. The magnetic types can be used for something elso in the power supply...
Low ESR in the sound path? Very bad idea...
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Thank you for your help, i will look in to which capacitors i need for the signal path and try and source those WIMA replacments.
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