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.
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.
Congrats. Perhaps, as Bill noted, it's the reduction in impedance from paralleling caps that is helping? I often don't understand why things are having the influence they are, but it's always great to get an outcome like that, regardless.
Dear @cal3713@grannyring friends : I just received the two Wima FKP1 0.033UF FOR i CAN MAKE THE CHANGE INSTEAD THE V-CAPS tEFLON cU THAT ACTUALLY ARE IN MYLlEVINSON'S INPUT HIGH-PASS FILTERS.
Really small devices, as the third or fourth part of one single Teflon Cu. So and due that Wima caps has radial pins connectors I have to solder in the circuit boards using additional wires, I will use pure silver teflon isulation by KK.
I bougth the model FKP1 instead the MKP10 because Wima states in his site:
""
As regards pulse loading capability, WIMA FKP 1 represents the high-end of capacitor technology. """ and that means a top the MKP10.
We will see what happens when I test it this week.
I have not big expectations with the Wima in this application because the V-cap´s Teflon Cu are just first rate ones.
You must have a verified phone number and physical address in order to post in the Audiogon Forums. Please return to Audiogon.com and complete this step. If you have any questions please contact Support.