Reply #10 on: April 04, 2013, 06:37:42 PM
From what I can gather, in the world of audiophiledome, cap bypassing is still in the realm of 'alchemy' compared to other more established disciplines such as power supplies, output stages etc. I have dallied in it a tad with my speaker crossovers. I tried bypassing three different brands of large caps with a small value Mundorf silver/oil and the only one that sounded better (actually much better) was a paper/oil. It was trial/error. It seems what most people do is buy a .01uf ultra expensive cap - ex. CuTF V-cap - use it as a bypass and hope for the best. Of course the reviews are most always 'glowing'. I remain a skeptic.
Eric
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