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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 07:58 AM
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Default Re: Biggest stereo bang for the buck mod

Originally Posted by bigblock427
Hi,

i've read this thread and have to say that from an electronic view it's no good idea to only use a capacitor in the signal chain. This can harm your amp, because of impedance peaks.
Impedance peaks? What are you getting at?

Since when is a speaker a perfect resistance at all frequencies? And your parallel-resonant circuit is reactive as well, it will provide a near resistive load at the resonant frequency, sure, but it will still be capacitive reactive at lower frequencies and inductive reactive at higher frequencies - so what is the concern here?

Blocking caps have been used in the output of single-ended audio amplifiers for decades, since the invention of the transistor, in fact.
What the original poster proposes is nothing new, nor does it violate any "rules" - he simply did some homework for us and published the results.

I am sure you mean well, but as has been pointed out, this mod is over four years old and I have yet to see a thread where someone has destroyed their amp by putting a capacitor in a speaker lead.
 

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