Quote Originally Posted by jb143 View Post
I've heard of that with things like antique radios but I'm not so sure about modern components. More likely the values are off by trying to guesstimate the values with an ohm meter.
I've heard there are ways of reforming old caps so they actually work properly again, and really old caps can actually still work perfectly as someone on youtube demonstrated while making a video on the subject. Basically as a point that you don't automatically need to replace all old caps on every piece of old electronic as plenty of old caps work better than modern ones. With really modern caps I don't think they need to be reformed that way as they're too new to have degraded that much.

It could be exactly as you've said with needing a better meter to get more accurate readings. I'm really not too sure. It just doesn't seem like those caps would already be failing unless they were really poor quality as they're really too new.