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In the Thread: The Melquiades bass channels: the coupling capacitor.
Post Subject: The smell of experimentations in air….Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/13/2007
 Paul S wrote: |
| I have also been thinking of subbing electrolytics for the huge - up to 100 uF - caps in my speaker level crossovers, just to hear it for myself. Although everyone says to use polys in the signal path, etc., I just wonder about all that mass, if nothing else, and what an alternative would sound like. Elna also makes a new "computer-grade" hot-rod that looks nominally interesting, but I am not sure of the availability of 450V or even 250V in the sizes I would use. They can't be any slower than the Solens... |
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Paul,
if your speaker use large cap values then you would hardly fine anything better then get riding of those caps and run active basing: for bass applications it sounds extremely good at speakers level. The Solens that people love to use as the “non-electrolytic caps” in the crossover are notoriously bad caps.
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/GetPost.aspx?PostID=4067
In my case, where I do not need a huge value of capacitance I wonder if any other caps I might use, or perhaps to imply a different type of DB blocking (do not offer a transformer). I think it will lead to some experimentations….
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