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About Caps&Coils

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Crafty Loudspeakers

Caps&Coils originates from a search for crossover parts for Crafty Loudspeakers.  Both Clarity Cap and Jantzen audio excelled in quality and price when compared to other brands. Both brands where not available online at that time. Crafty Loudspeakers has as mission to offer affordable High End Audio. The crossover parts featured on this website form a perfect match to this mission.

Caps&Coils buys all crossover parts factory direct from ClarityCap and Jantzen Audio. This enables us to offer very high quality crossover parts for low prices.

We are on a continuously search for crossover parts that excel both in quality and price. Up next we will be offering ClarityCap's especially made for the use in tube amplifiers. Please subscribe to our newsletter so we can inform you about new products regurarly.

We plan to publicize customer reviews in the review section of this website. So if you are fond of the performance of that one special cap in combination with a particular tweeter? Or a foil inductor just does not perform right in combination with a particular mid driver? Please let us know! We want to combine these experiences so we and other customers can learn from it. Hopefully resulting in a understandable tweaks do's and dont's list.

Jantzen Audio

Not so long ago Jantzen audio from Denmark, was only known by loudspeaker manufacturers. Only the last few years they shifted their attention to the diy market. The recent development of Jantzen audio loudspeaker drivers for the diy market is their latest move into the diy market.

A mayor factor in the quality of coils is their sensitivity to microphonics.

All Jantzen coils are manufactured in such a way that microphonic effects are cancelled out or reduced. All wirecoils are baked and the foil inductors are tightly wound, to reduce microphonic effects.


The result is a coil that is far less prone to microphonic behaviour. Air movement in the loudspeaker cabinet is not picked up by these components. And vice versa: these coils do not loose any signal to selfmovement in the coil. This results in a detailed and uncolored sound. The Jantzen foil inductors were developed in cooperation with Per Skaaning. The founder of Dynaudio and Scan Speak.

 

Some Jantzen Audio clients: JBL, Tannoy, RCF, Sonus Faber, Dynaudio, Burmester en Peak Consult.

Erse

Erse Super Q coils offer a good alternative for expensive transformer coil inductors. Super Q offers a fine combination of low resistance and high powerratings. Caps&coils is the first to offer Erse components in Europe.

Clarity Cap

ClarityCap is relative unknown for their audio capacitors. ClarityCap is a part of International Capacitors Wrexham UK. (ICW).  ICW specializes in high quality industrial capacitors. ICW capacitors can be found in high speed trains for example. Their audio capacitor range is developed in cooperation with mayor loudspeaker manufacturers and the University of Sallford.

Humble home made hifi capacitor test: Clarity Cap PX: verdict 8.5
Humble home made hifi capacitor
test: Clarity Cap SA Range: verdict 9.5



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