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High pass filter capacitors

I’m making a high pass filter between my preamp and amplifier. This will be on XLR Interconnects. I need a .047 uf value . 
Looking for recommendations on what capacitor to use to have a good quality filter. I don’t want to spend lots of money on a new preamp and trash it with low quality caps. I also don’t want to spend $300 per cap if it’s not necessary.

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erik_squires
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In this range of capacitors, there are a number of excellent brands of caps for far less than $300.

Audyn TruCopper, and even some excellent Duelund models like this one.

I strongly recommend you practice however using like $2 poly caps first, just to make sure you have the right values and wiring.

Also, I think Parts Express has some modular XLR adapters.  They are like M to F adapters but you can shove little parts inside. Perfect for this type of prototyping.

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