Best caps for speaker crossover?


Hi, I'm looking to upgrade my speaker with better caps in the future. I've looked into several options and I have heard that Auricaps, DynamiCaps, V-caps, and Sonic Caps Platinum are very good. Anyone made comparisons? Thanks.
dracule1

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Dear Dracule: I use the V-caps in my speakers XO.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
Dear Draculel: I try in my speaker crossover all the caps in your list plus: Hovland, MIT RTX, Solen, Aeon, Wima, etc.

I do extensive tests with all those brands on my speakers and no one of them can meet the neutral balance and naturalness of the V-caps: this is the less colored cap that I ever know for a crossover speaker use: small and large values and if you have the money you can do the by-pass with Teflon V-caps ( very very expensives ).

If you really want an improvement on your speakers performance is that you can change the caps and the inductors, for these one I can recomemnded the Alpha-Core ( cooper or silver ), nothing come close to it.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
Dear Dracule 1: The Teflon caps are not for speaker XO: are too expensives and build to small values.

The standard V-caps is the one for the XO. About the internal speaker wire you can use Kimber Kable: cooper or silver, I'm using the silver type. Kimber is a hard to beat wire for this aplication.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
Hi Dracule 1: Jeffreybehr ask for the caps values, this issue is very important: not only because their prices but because maybe you can't find all the values you need from the same source and you have to combine two or more caps to meet what the XO needs.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
Hi Manga: Very good link. I never heard the Mundorf caps that this man " loved ".

I woul like to know which are the music/sound reproduction priorities that he has and his audio system, because the Sonicaps are better than he say: maybe between 9-9.5. I think that he rated at 8.5 because is a " low price " cap, I don't know for sure.

I know that it is an expensive way to try to tests differents XO caps in our own system but I'm positive sure that if you try with the V-caps you will be extremly " happy " with them, Chris VenHaus of www.v-caps.com is a very nice people and can help to any one of you about. No I'm not a dealer of V-caps and don't have any comercial relationship with V-caps other than like a customer.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
Dear Manga: Tks for your info, interesting.. I use the Sonicaps ( last generation ) in my speakers XO and I really like it, right now I'm very happy with the V-caps: recomended !!!. For me the Sonicaps and V-caps are the best for XO, but I have to try the silver Mundorf.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.