SW1X Battle Royale – Capacitor Shootout
This is a brand new series presenting a very familiar concept to audiophiles and music lovers like never before.
It is a fantastic opportunity to provide an expensive research undertaking to a wide audience free of charge. Consumers or hobbyist cannot do this kind of research on their own because thanks to our friends at HiFi Collective, we have 62 capacitors worth over £10,000, going head against one another in an extremely transparent and revealing, high performance system.
Measurements, though important, mean little in audio. Since humans are the final audience, one has to listen to every component individually to make judgements before anything can go into a circuit.
What makes this series special? You get to hear several different capacitors, untainted by any company or reviewer’s opinion and presented as they sound in ceteris paribus conditions.
Usual limitations apply such as are digital compressions and processes from our recording device to your playback device – albeit those limitations apply equally to all the capacitors you would hear.
Each capacitor has been run-in for at least 100 hours before it is placed in our extremely lush and analogue sounding DAC III, which is the highest level of our DAC before we switch to Signal Output Transformers instead of Signal Output Capacitors.
Can this get any better? Yes! The shootout is active battle royale format where capacitors are competing against one another. It is you, who will decide the winner in each round and win our prized, SW1X MAGNUM X REFERENCE LITZ COPPER CABLE!
