KJAN

Hi all, First of all, let me say I absolutely adore the 160s! Those babies totally changed my perspective on music and opened my ears! I had high expectations when I first bought them, but this !? Never expected this much!!! You all probably know what I'm talking about anyways . The gorgeous horns and low end warmth and definition made me start hoarding amplifiers of all sorts and powers and topologies etc...it's a very long story and a journey. Now, I wanted to give my 2c regarding this topic: "for the love's sake of klipsch! please stop bypassing that LF electrolyte". For those of you who did it, I dare you, it's probably been some time. Please just remove them and listen again, at least out of curiosity. I couldn't resist with this mod given all the awesome feedback and went with 3.9uF Jantzen CrossCaps for the HF (great result) + Audyn mkp-qs 0.1uF as a bypass on that electrolyte in parallel (absolutely sacrilegious effects) it was as if somehow you've put a veil on the upper mids! Incredible!. From my experience the vocals instantly lost that succulent lively presence and sweetness due to the bypass caps. I kept them for 5 days but just had to remove them because the messup was so striking and immediately audible and as obvious as was the revelation once I removed them. It is only at this point that I was able to hear improvement coming from the 3.9uF Jantzens, heck I was afraid I was gonna have to throw them out as well! I have no Idea how is it technically possible because as it's just 0.1uF of capacitance added to the 43uF, but somehow it really disturbed the filtering of the upper range on the LF driver! Then again! no one actually knows and is able to confirm how is it technically possible that bypassing an electrolyte with a low value MKP or ceramic makes things better either... thus nothing indicates we shouldn't experience the exact opposite. So please stand up if anyone has empirical knowledge on how bypassing caps make the sound better in this particular case. I've went searching through dozens of forums and threads on this topic, every single story comes short of common technical sense here! OH. And please! For the love's sake, please stop putting ceramic caps into speakers! They have absolutely no place there and even in the amplifiers it is questionable nowadays. Have you never heard of how horrible microphonics are on those things? Actually ceramic caps are the worst passive components in existence when it comes to microphonics. Anyways, hope you make something out of this and I'd love to hear what you experience with bypass caps and after removing them, if anyone is curious to do that. Love. Jan