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In Reply to: Recapping old loudspeakers. Question on cap types... posted by samstone on January 11, 2022 at 05:21:43:
Years ago, an acquaintance who works in a biology lab told me he was rebuilding his speakers and had bought new electrolytic caps for them. I told him that you can't use electrolytic caps in a speaker crossover since they would sound awful; use poly caps. He laughed at me.
A week later I saw him and asked how the speakers sounded. He said that they had sounded execrable with the electrolytic caps, but someone in the lab had told him to use poly caps which he had done and they sounded great.
Don't use electrolytic caps! Any poly cap is better than any electrolytic. If you can't find the correct value, you can parallel them to get the correct value. If you need 50uF for instance, you can parallel two 20uF and a 10uF.
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- RE: Recapping old loudspeakers. Question on cap types... - Palustris 08:01:15 01/11/22 (3)
- RE: Recapping old loudspeakers. Question on cap types... - samstone 13:08:43 01/12/22 (0)
- What Palustris said, oddly, I prefer foil Mylar caps over polypropylene with speakers-nT - Cleantimestream 10:38:03 01/12/22 (0)
- ^ +1 - garymuffley 12:35:40 01/11/22 (0)
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