Cheap monitor 5B X-over replacement

Jockos

I finally got around to redoing my monitor 5B crossovers today. I went the inexpensive route with Dayton electrolytic audio caps and dayton 10w audio resistor. I found that one x-over had a cracked circuit trace under the cap. I used a left over piece of cap. lead to bridge it. Also the new 10w resistors were much taller so I also used a excess leftover capacitor leads .
After doing some intial listening there is definitely improvement. The highs are smoother with no grittiness. The orginal caps were 50v compared to the new 100v. Some pictures included.
Will now think about my RTA 11t's with solens or other quality caps.
The pics with the blue and purple caos are the originals and the blacks are the new ones.

ben62670

Are those the cheap dayton caps that are less than $5 each. I need to do a project with 400uf caps, and the solens are out of my budget for now.

Thanks Ben

Jockos

Yes, they're labled as high quality bipolar caps. The 33uf's were around $1. So far my speakers sound much better, more definition and smoother.

Jockos

ben62670

Jockos wrote: »

Yes, they're labled as high quality bipolar caps. The 33uf's were around $1. So far my speakers sound much better, more definition and smoother.

Jockos

Thanks Jacos. I was looking a using the cheap caps for such large values until I could come up with th coin to go solens.
Ben

engtaz

Don't forget to give us your review of the audio changes.

george daniel

here's a couple pics from my 5a's, solen,,mills,, vampire bp-hx connectors,,,,relatively simple job.

engtaz

george is this Who's got the biggest CAPS LOL

george daniel

current project,,these sre sonicaps