capacitors

Just wondering what best practice is to allow capacitors to reform when giving unused/idle amps or receivers some use after a year or two of being idle. Is it enough just to let the unit power up or is it best to actually connect speakers and play some music?

This fell into the "Cheap enough, worth a pop" category so decided to get one to play around with. It arrived this morning, no power supply just a USB A to Barrel jack cable and the unit itself, thing is tiny. Got it hooked up to a Topping E50 via XLR and powered at the min with a cheap generic...

In the lab I have a small bin of used capacitors which I had been building up for moments when I am in a pinch and its not critical. I am not saving caps with holes or anything :) Sometimes its large caps preservation to match the originals, stuff like that. I was hoping to use these caps...

Hope this isn't too off topic....I have a DataVideo TBC-1000 time base corrector - it is designed to stabilize video from analogue formats for video capture. It's been sitting idle for years. I inspected the internals before powering it on again and noticed the caps on the 'power board' are...

This is a buzzword these days in high-end tweaks and products. It is a real effect and worth knowing about it but certainly does not justify the use of the term in our high-end world. From my favorite electronic blogger, Dave Jones: