Capacitor


Dear friends, I am interested in changing my crossover capacitor of 100uf 630VDC they are Auydn Q6 caps but I feel there is room for improvement if I put in better caps can anyone suggest what will be the best cap.
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This really depends. With a value this high I have to assume it’s a low pass filter. If so it is likely to go to ground.
@erik_squires,

If the cap goes to ground, then it’s shunting all the frequencies above that driver’s cutoff to ground, essentially a short circuit, not a good thing for the amp. Unless the signal through the cap goes to another driver like a midrange or tweeter and then to ground, that’s different. However, a series inductor will block the higher frequencies and send nothing to ground, a "safer" option. We haven’t see an photo or a crossover schematic to tell where the parts are connected.


Rather than replacing the entire cap, you may want to get a really good cap of a smaller value, say 0.1uf or .22uf and bypass the existing 100uf cap. Audyn is not junk, they are reasonably good caps.  
If the cap goes to ground, then it’s shunting all the frequencies above that driver’s cutoff to ground, essentially a short circuit,

Man, I no longer have the time and energy to explain the basics, let alone the subtleties of even ordered crossovers. This crap  is why I barely post here.
@erik_squires-     'Man, I no longer have the time and energy to explain the basics, let alone the subtleties of even ordered crossovers. This crap is why I barely post here."

          Things certainly have been getting silly, in these parts!

     Crossover gurus, that can't understand (maybe) an 8 Ohm, 130Hz*, 12dB/oct (Butterworth), low-pass network?   🙄

                                 *260Hz, if 4 Ohm
100uf 6

Are you sure its 100uf.
Thats a  lot of uf's. My Seas W18E001 woofers take either a 10uf or 8uf, I am running 12uf, Mundorf SESGO and Supreme Silver Oil
Best  caps for rock solid bass