In Reply to: Bypassing Crossover Capacitors posted by Randal P on June 22, 2016 at 17:13:53:
Bypassing caps is necessary when your dealing with caps that have significant series inductance and when operated at high frequencies.
At audio frequencies, a decent polypropylene cap (no need for boutique caps) is darn close to theoretically idea capacitor and doesn't benefit from being bypassed. If your looking at Mouser, Digikey, Newark, Allied or other electronic parts catalogues, look for caps rated for switching power supplies and or low ESR.
Of vastly greater importance is having the ideal value of capacitance and a circuit topology which accounts for the load's actual impedance which is nothing at all like a resistor.
Making a passive crossover for a horn driver is more complicated than it might appear as the impedance varies quite a bit and is reactive.
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- RE: Bypassing Crossover Capacitors - tomservo 09:23:53 06/25/16 (0)