Quote Originally Posted by lofi-ear View Post
Got all the replacement capacitors today. I went to measure them, and all the polyester MKT's were within 1.5% tolerance. Pretty good, even though they have +-5% marking on them.

The electrolytes, on the other hand, left me a question - they are all about 15% over their marked capacitance. Does this mean that when they slowly burn in, they lose some capacitance and settle to their nominal values?
Given sufficient time electrolytic caps can decrease to a -90% of the original value!