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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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.

Dear @grannyring  @cal3713  and friends : Yesterday I changed the stand alone bnd-pass and tweeter crossovers by two caps in parallel  at each position where all caps have the same voltage spec.

After half a hour of free play the caps already settle down due that all are used caps: two came from the original input coupling in my Levinson's and the other 6 came from a Classé Audio DR3-VHC that I owned.

Question: makes sense to any of you that one improvement been that noise floor goes down?  because after runned twice  by evaluation proccess this was the first improvement I listened and listen.
Second was that focus is dead dead centered as if was  deeply underground ( better than beefore. ), then I noted that ( as in live music events at near field position. ) I almost can determine the distance/position of the different instruments in the stage in a solid and vivid manner.

In complex scores as the Battle track in the Gladiator soundtrack exist better separation in between the different instrument sounds, same happens too with the Telarc 1812 recording. I can identify better the individual sound of each insterument and at the same time with high coherence in between.

I did not what to expect for the parallel caps changes so these kind of improvements are welcomed.

I have to say that the differences for the better is " night and day " but my evaluation proccess and system resolution permit me to be aware of those little and sometime tiny level chamnges.

I still waiting for the caps for the bi-amp high pass filter.

R.