Please help me Identify these In-Line Filters

[Spencer]

Hey guys,

I was looking thru my stereo system and noticed these little in-line filters (looks like them) installed on the speaker wire going to my rear speakers.

Can anyone confirm this?? There is some text on the blue filters but the flash blurred them out. If the text is important, I can retake the pic.

TIA

[Spencer]

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[kevin7909]

those are called capacitors and tehy are used as 'bass blockers' basically...they stop low frequencies from getting to your tweeters and burning them up...
Kevin

[kevin7909]

i assume they say 4.7uF or something close if they are for the tweeters....
Kevin

[Spencer]

Yea, I figured they were bass blockers.

They say 10uf on them. The speaker wire isnt just for the tweeters, since I'm pretty sure the rear HK speakers have a built in cross over for them (componets).

Do you know what frequency that relates to? I'm looking to get a little more low-end bass from those rear 6x9's. Any recommendations?

[kevin7909]

my recommendation? if the wire goes to the 6x9and NOT the tweeter then just take em off and wire it straight...
Kevin

[Andy ///M3/4]

I think a 10uF cap going into 4ohms is a 4kHz hi-pass 6dB/octave, if it is going into a 2ohm load it will be somewhere on the order of an 8-10kHz 6dB/octave hi-pass filter.

Please feel free to refute that, I am looking at a chart for passive crossover values. It could be wrong.