one large cap, or a few added up?

For a cap in series to a midrange (120uf) is it better to get one at that value, or is it better to use 3 to 4 in parallel like 30, 40 & 50 uf so it adds up to 120 uf ?

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koestner07-23-2009 6:57pm

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stanwal Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,147 posts 07-23-2009 at 11:11pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I would do as Al suggests; a method which use to be in vogue was to take one large cap and bypass it with a small one, this supposidly gave much of the sound of the small ones in a simpler configration but it has been a long time since I built anything so this may be out of date.

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