Originally Posted by
REXTON
. I can't understand why a speaker designer would want to use a cap with a specific value only to use something with a 10% tolerance of the value needed. Surely the desired voicing of the speaker is going to be dramatically effected? So my logic was to use something that got me very close to a value of 4.7uf.
I can answer this one - because the 4.7uF Jantzen Silver capacitor is £20 but the same value in their budget MKT range is £1!
When the speaker it’s going in is a budget model, that extra £19 is just not viable economically.
As to the 10% tolerance affecting the voicing of the speaker, its effects will be minimal. It will contribute to the sound far less than the natural and unavoidable physical differences between one drive unit and another.
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