Best economy (Good Sounding) capacitors for my tape head preamp?

musicmanbob · 2015-11-24T05:16:08+00:00

[ATTACH]Good evening all, some years ago, when there was a great deal of excitement for all who started collecting reel to reel tape decks there were a few folk who developed and produced tape head preamps. At that time I had a tech here in Georgia build a unit I could afford. During that very important time there was also much talk about the capacitors used as well as SS or Tubes were preferred. My question has to do with capacitors, in particular, improving the capacitors in my tape head unit. I finally got around to removing the bottom cover and note 2 fairly large capacitors (.33uF +/-10% 600v) Audience Auricaps. I understand that Audience makes a newer capacitor, the Auricap XO which is suppose to be a much better capacitor. I am supposing the high end units most of you have did not use these capacitors. I also recall that some of you felt strongly that the Mundorf was the correct upgrade path. I also recall some felt strongly about VCap, etc. Should I upgrade using the same capacitors (Older Auricaps) or the newer XO version? Many years ago, I did pretty good with a soldering iron, but don't know if this is a job, swapping out the older caps for the newer one's I can or should handle. I have a photo of the underside of my preamp on my computer desktop. If needed I will see if I can upload that for all to see. Thanks for all comments. I finally figured out how to upload and image. This is the underside of my tape head pre. The power supply is separate. Thanks all. bob :)