BEST HARMLESS/SIGNATURELESS SPEAKERS CAPACITORS.


Dear friends:I really need your helpwith first hand experiences with speaker crossover capacitors founded in next main experiences/tested premises: for a 3-way speaker design, high resolution audio systems, very low distortion audio systems, wide systems frequency range, " zero trade-offs ".

I know that the best capacitor is NO-capacitor, well I need your near to that full experiences with another desired premises from you: audio systems using SS electronics and mainly listening MUSIC through digital sources.

All your opinions/help are appreciated.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.


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You can just parallel the ODAMs for use.  Lower inductance that way and that can be a good thing.  I used two 4uf caps instead of an 8 uf for example. 
Dear @grannyring : You are rigth but for the mid-range filter I need 16.8uf.

Now, are you saying that two 2.2uf in parallel performs with better quality levels that a single 4.7uf?

A second question ( not for the ODAM.): is there any advantage to use two caps in series against a single capor parallel caps? because before I received the 4.7uf caps I was listening to two 10uf Wima caps and performs very well too. I read somewhere that two in series caps reduce impedance but I don't know for sureor if exist a trade-off about.

Thank’s in advance, appreciated.

R.


Dear @grannyring  : Sorry  I was totally wrong, in series comes higher resistence.

I would like to insist on the parallel caps issue conection not in my speaker crossover where I will follow your advise and see if exist any improvement. I will do this in the tweters and band-pass crossover because I already have the Wima caps need it for that.

Now, I already ordered to Mouser two Wima 0.033uf to use at the input of my Levinson monobloks in the high pass filter ( biamping system. ) instead the today V-cap teflon Cu.

I don't like to make more harm to the Levinson circuit board and I say this because I already made several changes in that specific input cap.
So my question is that if you or other gentleman think  that using there two caps in parallel ( I have 0.022 and 0.01uf that I take out somewhere in the electronics. ) will perform better than the single 0.033uf?

I will follow the advise of you and if I don't have a tiny improvement then I will come back to the teflon Cu and I will don't touch the board again.

Thank's in advance.

R.
@rauliruegas I’ll refer you to Ralph’s (@atmasphere) last post (first on page 3) in our other capacitor thread for some relevant discussion regarding parallel caps of different values...

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/preamp-output-capacitor-mundorf-supreme-vs-supreme-silver-oil...
Dear @cal3713  : Thank you very much. That's the specific answer I'm looking for. Appreciated.

So I will go with the single 0.033uf Wima caps.

R.