Duelund Capacitors??

"One other thing to note, and this is directly from Tony - to get the 'sound' of a capacitor, you only need 10-20% of the total value to be the 'good' cap. Example - you need a 5 uF cap for a HPF. Use a 4.5 uF Clarity Cap and a 0.5 uF VSF copper, and it's almost identical to the sound of a 5 uF VSF, and you've spent significantly less."

For output coupling, should the 2 caps as above be used in series or parallel?

Thanks.

Steven, the bypass high-quality cap is connected in paralell with the larger, less expensive cap.
Their values add. In the example above, 4.5 uF + .5 uF = 5 uF. The combo replaces a 5 uF cap in the crossover.

Thank you Casouza :)

Out of curiousity, if they were connected in series, what would that do to the total value?

Thanks,

Steve

Steve, the resulting value is defined by the formula C1 x C2/C1+C2 , in this case about 0.45uf. BTW this is the same formula for resistors in parallel.

Hi Atmasphere,

Great, thank you for the education, I should read more about these things!

Steve