[sdiy] Littleman capacitors

[Peter Grenader]

I just went through this.  Again, bare in mind I am a hack designer...BUT, I
work for a speaker company and what better source of info on types of caps
for best sonic performance than the guy who does our crossovers, right?

I recently built a filter and asked his advise on this subject and his info
was surprising to me, in regards to certain locations where you'd swear a
polycarb or polystryrene would be required where they ain't.

Why I am mentioning this is he taught me a trick that many of you probably
know, but some might not (I didn't):  I was having a dickens of a time
finding caps in my area (and I live in Los Angeles, go figure). If you need
a polycarb in a critical location where one of the spec'd value is cap (disk
or whatnot) and run a small value polycarp across it, something like a .01.
By doing this, you will get most of the sonic benefit of the polycarb.

I found this interesting. Anyway, I trust this guy.  Many many years at JBL
where he got a bit of a name for himself.

best,

Peter



on 3/8/02 12:56 PM, Jimmy Gogas at toothpick_77 at hotmail.com wrote:

> What type (electrolytic, ceramic, ...) of capacitors do you guys suggest I
> use for my Littleman synth project? The schematics have the capacitor
> values, but not the type.
> 
> the schematics can be seen at:
> www.itn.liu.se/~nikro/littleman/littleman.pdf
> 
> 
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