If those speakers are 8ohm: the 200uF cap will cross at 100Hz and the 1.76uF over 10kHz. If they are 4ohm drivers: 200uF= 200Hz, and 1.766uF=somewhere over the rainbow, I mean- over 20kHz. I seriously doubt the mid-range actually has the ability to reproduce that range of frequencies accurately. If it does, I'll buy a truckload of 'em from you! If the tweeter is a nominal 16ohm piece, it would come in at 5kHz, but the cap on the mid might as well not be there at 16ohms. Or are those the values you were thinking about substituting? Most people use 8ohm drivers when building their own systems. It would be good to know with what you're dealing. Do you have a multimeter? Here's the formula for capacitance per your impedance and cut-off desires(for a 6db/oct slope): C1(in uF)= 1,000,000/6.283 X speaker impedance X desired x-over freq.
What capacitor values?
I have custom-made 3 way sealed box speakers with 12" Hokutone paper woofers run full range (wired directly to the speaker terminals).
The 5 1/2" Scanspeak Woofer/Mid has 1 capacitor with no coils, inductors or resistors.
The 1" silk dome Scanspeak Revelator tweeter has 1 capacitor with no coils, inductors or resistors.
What value capacitors would you suggest for the Mids and the Tweeters?
The existing capacitor values may not necessarily be ideal?
The 5 1/2" Scanspeak Woofer/Mid has 1 capacitor with no coils, inductors or resistors.
The 1" silk dome Scanspeak Revelator tweeter has 1 capacitor with no coils, inductors or resistors.
What value capacitors would you suggest for the Mids and the Tweeters?
The existing capacitor values may not necessarily be ideal?
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