Re: Vitamin Q 0.022
I'm not arguing, nor did I attack Drex.
Your quotes say nothing about PIO being better than Ceramic.
Sigh. Really? OK, let's go through this:
I have a polyester film cap sprague 0.22 a ceramic disk cap (RadioShack) 0.022 and a Russian NOS PIO 0.022 and a Vitamin Q nos pio and I can almost promise you everyone here will pick the Vitamin Q
Why would we pick the Vitamin Q unless it was better than the others? This post, unless there is some other reason, claims that Vitamin Q caps are superior.
I would throw out the ceramic disc. Any of the others, as long as the value was in tolerance would be just fine.
Again, making the fair assumption that the reason we would keep or throw away capacitors is due to their relative superioirity/inferiority, then throwing away the ceramic disc implies that it is worse than the others. If it is worse than all the others, it is worse than the PIO cap, which means the PIO is better.
All my guitars have Sprague Vitamin Q caps. [...] I sleep fine at night knowing my guitars have the best parts in them
If Vitamin Q are the best parts, then they are by definition better than ceramic discs.
It doesn't take much stretching, really, just a bit of reading comprehension.
Your suggestion of inference is an unsubstatiated conjecture.
Lotta big words! I think you mean "implication" rather than "inference" though.
Drex didn't say that at all. He said he didn't think they were worth paying more for.
Yeah, I know that, but you came back with "So cheap and nasty components are the only reliable path to follow?", and then, regarding the 805: "I hope it didn't have any of those expensive caps and other bits in there. It might ruin your sound." So yeah, either you
weren't being sarcastic, or you were suggesting that DreX considers cheap parts superior (or more expensive parts inferior) - a straw man. If you weren't arguing, and you weren't attacking DreX, then what was the purpose of those two posts? Ohh, I know: "it was a joke", of course. The get-out-of-jail-free card of internet forums.
If you don't call what you're doing "arguing", then fine. Discussing. I note that you completely ignored my post where I suggested linking to a piece of valid evidence, preferring instead to pick semantic holes in my posts. Because, as Internet Rules say: if you can prove that someone is wrong about
anything, however unrelated to the topic being discussed, then you've proved them wrong in their main point too. Because it's impossible to be right about one thing and wrong about something else.