Ahh - I see, and tend to agree. I've seen this with pots, too. I have a Historic Les Paul that I could not get to sound good, and it was too damn expensive not to sound good. I had put in some known good amazing pickups and it just sounded dead. The consensus on a certain nameless guitar forum was basically, "Modern Les Paul pots suck - you'll never get that vintage CentraLab sound without putting in CentraLab pots from the '50s." or "You need vintage Bumblebee caps!" or some other firmly believe hokum.
I measured the pots in that guitar and the neck controls were something like 420k. I replaced all the pots with 525k +/- 5% pots (all measured at 520-530k and the guitar came alive in a "holy CRAP!" kind of way. That experience led me to believe that the tone a lot of people search for could be found if they abandon their rare capacitor quest and just put in some quality well-spec'd pots.
Said Les Paul because it's just so pretty: