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In Reply to: RE: Speaker capacitor question Solen vs. Clarity cap posted by tweakmenow on October 28, 2014 at 17:53:01
Yes I was reading that site for quite a while now.
The SA's are no longer available. And I just didn't know if the sound difference was worth doing all that work to change out that cap?
charles
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Most MKP (metalized Polypropylene capacitors) will sound about the same because, despite what the various marketing departments tell you, they are all built with the same materials in the same way and in many cases on the same machine. MKP capacitors have metalized aluminum plates and polypropylene dielectric. The difference in capacitors generally comes in the material used for the plates since polypropylene or paper make a good dielectric. Foil sounds better than "metalized" plates and copper foil sounds better than aluminum foil.
In the end, the best bang for the buck in capacitors is the Russian military MBGO paper dielectric and aluminum foil plates encased in oil. The case and oil damps any microphonics. You will need to parallel several caps to get the correct value. For instance for 12uF you may need a 10uF and two 1uF caps in parallel.
I usually put the crossover outside the speaker and run in separate cables for woofer and tweeter. In this way you don't need to pull the speaker apart to experiment.
So you recommend not to, or don't bother, changing out one poly for another.
But if I do change it out, then go for something in the tin or copper foil line?
Sounds like "sound" advice to me.
Thanks
charles
I replaced all my MKP caps with the Russian military MBGO.
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