BEST HARMLESS/SIGNATURELESS SPEAKERS CAPACITORS.

Dear @grannyring : There is something important in our audio decisions and that’s to what kind of sound we are accustom to, this characteristic defines our sound priorities and of course if something do not likes in our system quality performance we defines what we are looking for.

One way or the other all of us are accustomed to some kind of system " colorations " accustomed and love some kind of system " distortions " but what we like not always is rigth and many times we like " things " that are not directly related with the sound of live MUSIC.

I’m no exception about and through the years and along the system up dates/up grades and tweaks ( that we loved. ) some day I took in count from where came the better quality performance from those " tweaks " and the answer is from lower and different kind of colorations and lowr every kind of distortions.

I remember when I hard wired all my electronics at the input electrical power with out the use of male and female electrical power connectors: I soldered the cables directly to the boards. With that move/action some colorations/distortions just disappeared and other gone at lower levels..
Same happened when and due that I have fully regulated and bullet proof electrical lines souce I take out all the input fuses in the system electronics. I have to say that I was using boutique fuses type.
Same result when I changed all the electronics electrical power cables by 100% silver instead cooper.

The phenomeno was and is almost always that: some colorations/distortions disappears ( like " magic ". ) and other colorations and distortions goes lower.

So, I can’t remember when I just stop to love " colorations/distortions " but all those experiences help me to recognize and be aware of colorations/distortions in very precise way and I know for sure that my WIMA changes don’t fool my self.

I have a evaluation proccess that I follows and time to time I make up-dates on it. The advantage of this proccess is ( between other things ) that’s repetitive and this makes evaluations almost " easy " but time consuming.
When I’m invited to listen a system at friends places I always bring with me 3-4 recordings only for a " fast trak " evaluation and I have to say that till today never fails.

That’s why I made and make emphasis that with an open mind try to give an opportunity to the MKP 10 at the crossovers.

After that if you still think that Wima " is not top class in resolution..." then I can tellyou that that room/system is in trouble somewhere in one or more links of the system chain. You can be sure Wima is not the culprit, Wima shows you the nearest real quality performance of your system.

Wima can give us what I was looking for in this thread title:

A HARMLESSS and SIGNATURELESS capacitor. No colorations or distortions I can be aware or detected, at least till today.

In any " event " the use of Wima caps in crossovers and does not matters if you like it or not could be a learning lesson.


Btw, before this thread I never think of Wima caps for my speakers crossovers, as a fact the idea born through this thread and fortunatelly ( for me. ) was and is an unexpected beautiful surprise and very hard to believe it till we listen.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

I forgot. Please don’t wait/expect that you will listen with the Wima caps something different but " similar " to those colorations/distortions we are accustom to.

So we need to give time to our ears/brain to switch to the new kind of sound. It’s important this issue because Wima has not colorations you can detect it and the very low distortion levels is omething that we are not accustom to.

Well if some of you test those MKP 10 you will have a new experiences with your room/systems.

Something I had to do was to fine tunning ( again ) the system subwoofers and a minimum position change in one of the main speakers.

Btw, something that improved in my system through Wima is the solid/solidity focus in the sound stage. I’m still learning about the improvements the system achieved.

Again, that the extremely low price of Wima don’t worry you don't be intimidated for it. I know that we can ask: how a 8 dollar cap can outperforms a 400 dollar caps?
Wima is the kind of audio devices where price has not any relationship with the devices quality performance levels that’s just superb.

R.

Dear @grannyring  : The ODAM caps has to wait for a test till exist the caps values for my speakers mid-range.

R.

Dear friends : I can't find out yet the source for the Wima 100uf that goes in the speaker crossover.

In the mean time I'm thinking to make a really critical test that it's to change the V-cap Teflon Cu for a MKP 10 in the high pass filter in my bi-amp speaker/subwoofer.

I don't use the subwoofer high pass electronics instead I made the high pass filter taking advantage that my Levinson amps are coupled by cap at the input.

To do that I need first than all open the amps and take a look/measure the distance between the circuit boards holes because the original cap was 2.2uf and for the high pass is way lower value and due that the Wima are radial caps I think maybe I can't do it directly because the lower value cap has a shorter distance in between pins and I don't want to add cable to solder at the board.

I will do all my effoprt I can because if the Wima can, at least, even the V-cap Teflon Cu well that could be admirable for say the least. 
We will see.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

Hi Raul... finally ordered a pair of the MKP10s to try against my 4.7uF Duelund Tinned-Copper CAST high-pass tweeter caps.  I'll let you know what the comparison sounds like.  Also planning on trying the ODAMs in my pre-amp, but am not quite ready to spring the $150 for a trial... easy to pull the trigger on the $20 for the WIMA capss and shipping.