Dowser
Learning to bodge again..
Just as an example, the following is from his criticism of the Rogers HG88:- 'Still the old Mullard mustard caps that deteriorate too, not that they are poor items, they just age.'
Well this is just utter nonsense. They were pretty well the best caps available at the time. I have serviced stacks of vintage audio gear(Quads Leaks etc) and have had to replace lots of caps on them, but have never had a faulty mustard that needed replacing. They are super film/foil caps that are every bit as good today as they were then, and will outlive most boutique and paper oil types, even the Russian ones of recent production.
Interesting - on the advice of the guy who designed my 211/gm75 hybrid mono amps, I am soon to try some Mullard mustards as op caps on my pre - he swears by them now, I'm not convinced...but have them here to try Of course, first need to fix my ESL63s, then swap 211s to gm75s...so maybe a while!