BEST HARMLESS/SIGNATURELESS SPEAKERS CAPACITORS.


Dear friends:I really need your helpwith first hand experiences with speaker crossover capacitors founded in next main experiences/tested premises: for a 3-way speaker design, high resolution audio systems, very low distortion audio systems, wide systems frequency range, " zero trade-offs ".

I know that the best capacitor is NO-capacitor, well I need your near to that full experiences with another desired premises from you: audio systems using SS electronics and mainly listening MUSIC through digital sources.

All your opinions/help are appreciated.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.


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Showing 3 responses by bdp24

Good post, Raul. The beauty of the bypass test is, when "A" is compared to "B", you aren't listening for a preference, only a difference. That's why the device under test must provide no gain, no filters, no nuthin', just pass the signal through exactly as received. A brutally revealing test!

My First Watt B4 x/o is stuffed full of Wima’s, but the only ones in the circuit at any given time are those selected by the user to get the desired filter characteristics (frequencies, slopes). It can be argued that Nelson Pass selected Wima because of their diminutive size (to use copper/foil caps would take a much larger circuit board and enclosure) and modest price (I can’t imagine what a B4 stuffed with Jupiter caps would retail for!). I would love to hear what Nelson has to say on the subject.

When Sheffield Records/The Mastering Lab engineer Doug Sax evaluated a new piece of equipment, he did so by way of a bypass test:

1- Insert the piece into the recording or reproduction chain, at zero gain.

2- Listen for any change in the sound.

3- If there was a change, the piece failed.

Sax was after absolute transparency, tonal neutrality, zero coloration. Aren't we all? 

Danny Richie (GR Research) is recommending and selling Sonicap and Miflex KPCU caps for his DIY speaker kits. He looks for resolution and transparency in loudspeaker components, as well as natural organic instrumental timbre and texture.