In Reply to: Re: Film Bypass on Electrolytic vs. Polypropylene Cap posted by lukiedog on October 19, 2005 at 16:14:44:
You can gain some distorsion advantage and some frequency extension perhaps by using a polypropelene cap and a polystyrene bypass. The AR partner is not a really highly resolving speaker, so it may not make any difference. I'd just put a pair of Solens on them if I had something else that I needed to order to make it worthwhile. The shipping costs on something like that would probably outweigh the product cost and I doubt that it would be much of an improvement in that speaker anyway. The greatest defect of those are the higher cabinet tuning frequencies, which are audible as a thump type sound in the midbass (there is no real low bass). You can get the best performance from them by using them in conjuction with a subwoofer that allows them to be x-over above 60-70hz so that they do not see frequencies below that. Also be sure to place them away from corners even though they look like it would be a good idea from their shape.
-Bill
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