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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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mahlman
433 posts
 
Dayton 1% tolerance poly caps measure very good and won't give you boutique flavoring on output. Tolerance is well withing spec and ESR is very low.
mahlman
433 posts
 
" Have I an explanation about? not for sure but now that the V-caps " disappeared " the hum gone with too.

Any explanation from some one of you? or an advise about?
"  Now my experience is with Klipsch but I figure what crossover components do with them they do with others too. All the old Mylar caps in crossover 20 years+ old i have measured after removal have at a bare minimum .15 ESR and often higher than .5 ESR. New ones I use measure maybe .004 at the top end. It makes for some downright sour sounding speakers at times until you switch them out. Best bang for the buck upgrade on older speakers is recapping your crossover and you don't need silly expensive caps to sound really good.
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