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I have heard that bipolar electrolytics are commonly used in crossovers. You and just about everyone else don like them, so why are they still used?

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I have heard that bipolar electrolytics are commonly used in crossovers. You and just about everyone else don like them, so why are they still used?

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Price. They are cheap and have high capacitance in a small volume. However they are not reliable at high power, and will degrade in time. It can be Ok to use them in impedance correction circuits, since they are not in the signal path (they are in parallel with the driver and amplifier when used like this).