Strange capacitor position?

It doesn't matter, there's no real ground, it's only AC.
The symbols + - and ground are only used to show the difference in phase.

The phase is changing as it is AC, but the current flows always in the same sense in the voice coils and it should return to the amp by the opposite of the entry terminal ? whatever the terminal is in phase or not ? Or you just do not care, it is a voice coil, whatever the beginningg and the ending of the wirering turns on the voice coils ?

That's what I always have pain to understand, for illustration the quality of the parralel cap to the driver terminal can be heard to, but as people say less than strictly in serie (even if the // parts are in serie too)... that's my noob presumption than the cap being at the end of the voice coil, maybe it is less "hearable"... but ok if the electrical circuit is equivalent there should be no difference at all ...

I saw some using expensive caps in // like Gravsen (ok bad illustration due to his economic model) 😉
 
The equivalent of this circuit is block A in series with block B. Written as A + B. Which is the same as B + A.
A is the capacitor C1.
B is a block C in parallel with block D, usually written as C // D.
C is Driver + R2, and D is L1 + R1. Again the position of the elements in series in each block can be swapped.
This lead to a whole bunch of circuits which all are exactly identical in their behavior.
 
It's a 2nd order electrical filter.
Here the same components drawn in the same order but more conventional placed


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I expected "just" the capacitor to be moved, which would result in the conventional drawing with one terminal of the driver connected to ground. This circuit is basically the input terminals of the network swapped so that the whole thing is upside down and the driver is still in "the middle" of the circuit. They're all equivalent, if not all "conventional."
But yes, any components in a series circuit can be swapped around. Here I see three series circuits: the capacitor and the rest of the network, the inductor and the 1 ohm resistor, and the driver and the 3 ohm resistor.
This is a consequence of basic circuit laws (it helps to have gone through the basic EE curriculum, or at least having studied some DC and AC circuit analysis textbooks), the current is the same through every component in a series circuit, and the voltage is the same across every component in a parallel circuit.
 
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I agree with you benb, as a self taught hobbyist electronician i often see myself discovering very evident things to an EE... there is 'holes' in my knowledge...
Sometimes frustrating, it leave some discovery to be found! Like hot water or the like... 🙂