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+My two cents worth... It all depends on your ear. I have a 1963 Hammond M-102 that sounds so good with its original wax and paper capacitors on the tone generator and vibrato box that I wouldn't dream of changing them. Have they degraded over the years? Yes, I'm sure, but there is alot of definition in the sound the drawbars and all vibrato and chorus settings.  
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+However, I purchased a 1957 Hammond C-3 a couple of years ago and it sounded absolutely terrible. Very little drawbar definition and the vibrato and chorus settings were totally mush sounding. I first replaced the capacitors in both line box and generator with the ceramics from Goff professional. This improved the definition greatly but they did sound very harsh, especially higher up on the keyboard.  
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+After reading the article on capacitor linearity, I decided to purchase vintage NOS paper and oil capacitors from Nebraska surplus sales. I replaced the line box and tone generator and the sound is so much better than ceramics or even the polypropane  

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