Cap Question or Help Me, DVM, Your My Only Hope

[marnold***]

Just to resurrect this thread slightly, on the Telecaster forums I found a link to this capacitor test where ceramic, polyester film, and paper in oil caps were tested both by switching through them and listening and also on a meter. Cool stuff. Basically, the differences are there but they are very minor. Thankfully caps are cheap so you're not talking about a ton of cash either way. It sounds like the differences could be far greater in a situation where more "juice" is applied, viz, an ampf.