Quality Components

[rasco22862]

How is supposed to be a good quality component??? I mean, is there a big diferrence between the components that you but at your local provider, than others??? How should i order them???

For example, a 0.1uF film cap. There are better quality caps or something like that??

Thanks

[Pushtone]

More for selection, less for sound quality.

For film caps I think it's all about size, not so much quality. My local store has .1uF film caps, but there rated at 600V and there just to big for most stompbox circuits. I order caps from Mouser because I can get the sub-minature ones and others speced at 25V.

For resistors there is a quality difference. Metal Film is better (quieter) than carbon comp.
I can buy metal film 1/4W resistors from my local store but it's expensive.
Four for 2.50 or .62 cents each.  Thats a huge difference from Mouser at .15 cents each or less.

So, for me, its the selection at my local store that keeps me doing the mail order thing.


However,
Recently, I discovered a huge difference in quality when it came to trimers.
That is one component where price and quality go hand in hand.

ICs and transistors? Another area where quality matters less than price and selection.

Pots? I think all of us like to use Alpha pots when we can. Are they the best? I don't know.
I counted 78 Alpha pots before coming across a "bad" one.

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

Pots? I think all of us like to use Alpha pots when we can. Are they the best? I don't know.
I counted 78 Alpha pots before coming across a "bad" one.

More than 5,000 Alps 'snap in' pots before a bad one - and I still think that one had beer spilt in it somehow......