Bypass capacitor questions


I have built new crossovers for my Thiels using mostly Clarity CSA caps. On the coax board, the two feeds and subfeed are bypassed with Multicap RTX (~1%). I am super happy with the SQ improvement. Well-recorded music sounds fantastic, just sublime. Really hard to fault, especially at this price point. Excellent transients with resolution and transparency for days; adding the RTX added a bit to the transients and resolution. But poorly recorded music is now more evident than ever and can sound relatively "cool", even thin, most notably on vocals. I’m wondering if a double bypass or different bypass cap might add a bit more flesh or hint of warmth. The Jupiter copper foil at 0.01 uF caught my interest but I’ve read reports that this small of capacitance can be inaudible, as well as reports that it can make a big difference (eg, humblehomemadehifi review of Dueland bypass).

Two questions:

a) do you think a different bypass or double bypass would result in the sound I seek?
b) if yes, more likely to get a good result with Jupiter double bypass at 0.01 uF or, say, Audyn True Copper Max at ~1%.

Budget: something more affordable than Duelands!


beetlemania

Showing 2 responses by grannyring

Remove the bypass caps.  Only bypass in power supplies not in speaker crossovers as the results are oftentimes all over the board and impossible to predict.  Bypassing in crossovers makes the sound phasey and not quite right. 

Also look to the resistors.  Remove sandcast and replace with Mills MRA. 
Path Audio resistors are the best.   Very neutral and so smooth.  I love them. Dislike bypass caps unless the combo is a known homerun. Still think that combo is causing issues.  Just my opinion.