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Whoever uses junk capacitors to save some cents would never ever spend more money to add a socket. That is not the problem, shitty parts are.

Good capacitors do exist, but they're getting less common with time; actually you're more likely to find good electrolytic caps in a 30 years old radio than in a 5 years old one. Today some manufacturers are cutting corners everywhere and parts quality tanked.



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