depechemodemusic said:
Well i bought one yesterday and was surprised to find that the four main capacitors-which are supposed to be nichicon FG arnt.In fact they arnt even nichicon full stop!!!!!!!! So ive shelled out almost £200 and their using inferior caps???????Or are the caps inside my amp better than the nichicon FGs has anyone else noticed this and if so maybe you could shed some light on exactly what these caps are and whether they are on par with the nichicon caps or are in deed inferior?????
Rega don't say the four main caps will be Nichicon FG.
They say...
"Utilising the design ideals of the ‘cascaded emitter follower output stage’ with a pair of complementary Darlington output transistors, along with Polyester film and
Nichicon FG capacitors in critical positions ensures it is our most advanced performing headphone amplifier to date."
I guess it's open to interpretation what 'critical positions' means. I am not trained in electronics design and I never took my old Rega Ear apart either. (It sounded great with my old Grados for 10 years and that's all I was bothered about.)
However, you have only just bought it, so taking it back for a full refund should be easy enough. (Unless, of course, it sounds really good. If that matters.)