Hobbs. What’s a best practice for choosing values on bypass caps.
I have always just used 0.1 values in the past. I’m see you chose 0.01 on the tweeter and 0.1 for the woofer. I’m curious how you chose those values.
Thanks for sharing some knowledge.
Normally i stick to 0.1uF, but in this case, the JDM silver foil caps only come in 0.01uF 0.022uF & 0.047uF. Silver is also known for being "bright" if overused, so keeping it small is a good option in this case. Though, if paired with a "darker" sounding cap like the Jupiter copper caps, it can help to balance out the tone, especially up top.
If i had stuck to copper foil bypass caps, I would have used 0.1uF since it's tonal influence tends to be more smooth/lush.
With large caps (30uF+) most often used in the mid or bass circuit, you want to stick to values that are 1/100th of the main cap to avoid phase shift in audible ranges. So if you have a 75uF cap in the mids a 0.68uF bypass is about as big as you want to go.
A 100uF cap can be bypassed with up to 1uF.