What are the great 'audio capacitors' and where do I get a good price on them?

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I am looking to buy M-Caps by Mundorf, 22uF 250V for my Beryllium tweeter protection. Where do I get them at good price?

What do you mean by "tweeter protection"? What are you trying to achieve? 22uF seems like a rather large value for a typical tweeter x-over.

I assume the Beryllium tweeters are high quality drivers (ScanSpeaks?), so a good MKP capacitor is in order. I commonly use the Mundorf M-Caps, and I prefer them over Cornell-Dubilier, Vishay/Roederstein, Clarity, etc. with respect to sound quality (as tested using my subjective ears).

I get my M-Caps here:
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Just pay attention shipping costs, which will depend on where you live.
 
What do you mean by "tweeter protection"? What are you trying to achieve? 22uF seems like a rather large value for a typical tweeter x-over.
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since I'm now able to assume more freely.:headbash: yeah it's in the lounge
i'd surmise he wants DC protection from gross amplifier failures rather than some other kinds of mishaps.
drunken operators etc using active Xovers controls
ohh ear testing tell us more, who needs data sheets anyway when we have our ears
I love those audio companies caps they can source them from anywhere and put a label on it. and yer left with their marketing images of loving hand-crafteted parts from workers with souls, not robots on assembly lines.
 
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AFAIK mech switching isn't as fast as a series capacitor , esp on a tweeter, it doesnt take much time for damage. woofers maybe OK to survive depending on other factors like max. excursion . in other words normally speakers already have series tweeter caps in their PASSIVE Xover, the OP maybe relying on direct connection with a big crude 22 uF DC blocking cap. E.g. active design.
if it was me I'd use a much smaller cap and incorporate it as part of the whole transfer function , als lil more finesse.
 
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I love those audio companies caps they can source them from anywhere and put a label on it. and yer left with their marketing images of loving hand-crafteted parts from workers with souls, not robots on assembly lines.

Maybe a higher end automised winding machine can be programmed to introduce random variations in tightness of the winding. Just a few extra lines of code...
 
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AFAIK mech switching isn't as fast as a series capacitor , esp on a tweeter, it doesnt take much time for damage. woofers maybe OK to survive depending on other factors like max. excursion .

I have never experienced a driver dying from excessive mechanical excursion, but I have seen them dying from overheating voice coils due to too much (DC) current. Overheating takes a moment to happen, and the response time of the protection circuit can be set to a short value for the tweeter, which will probably never see any low-frequency signals anyway. If it was me, I'd this route in a system that does not need/have a filter capacitor between the amp and the tweeter (active speaker or similar).
 
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