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Here's a question for you old farts, audiophiles, and EEs:

What are the appropriate uses and benefits/disadvantages of all the
various types of capacitors?  For example, electrolytics are often
used in power supplies.  I suspect that polycarbonates are thermally
quite stable.

I am curious about ceramics, tantalums, electrolytics, metallized and
foil film capacitors with mylar=polyester, polystyrene, polypropylene,
polycarbonate, teflon, etc.  Please post to the net.

Jeff Chan
Summer intern at Relation Technology Inc.
(and audio hacker)

P.S. not to start any controversies, but I have heard audio differences
between electolytic and polypropylene dc blocking caps in disc players.
The film caps were pretty close, and the 'lytics did bad things to sound.
You can *easily* test this yourself.  Just put some big caps on a switch
in series through a tape loop and switch them.