what is a bass blocker and is there a home-made kind?

I used to custom build my own passive crossover networks for my system.

Bass Blockers are not resistors. They are capacitors, non-polarized, to be specific. You need to ask for a non-polarized capacitor and you need the right value (measured in micro farads) for what you need to filter.

At 4-Ohms, a 200 micro farad cap will produce a 6dB/octave high pass filter at 200-Hz. Every time you half the value, you double the frequency:

200 mF = 200 Hz

100 mF = 400 Hz

50 mF = 800 Hz

25 mF = 1600 Hz

12 mF = 3300 Hz

6 mF = 6500

These are approximate. So for tweeters (4-Ohm) you need something between 4 and 10 mF (4.7 is common). Mid-ranges use something around 40-80 mF.

The larger the voltage rating on the cap, the more power it can handle.

Ordinary caps are cylinder shaped and usually black, white, or gray. Better caps are Mylar or Polypropylene and are often yellow and flat (like car mufflers).

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what is a bass blocker and is there a home-made kind?

What exactly is a bass blocker, and is there a Home-Made solution for this, I had some one tell me that adding a small capacitor would do the trick and if so how big and power handle should it be...

not sure exactly what you mean mate but when i was younger and mucking around with tweeters and subs in home stereos i found that adding a resistor to the hook up of wires would either increase or decrease the output of the speaker. so what i figure you mean is a crossover, which will reduce the frequencies of bass that your speakers receive, if you have some old home speakers laying around that your gonna chuck away, pull the resistors off the tweeter/s and join him up, i dont understand resistors much but just be prepared for the resistor to go pop, because ive done that before too lol. if you want more in depth explanation feel free to email me. good luck mate.

bass blockers prevent speaker damage by eliminating unwanted bass frequencies.

you can get them here, www.ebay.com

also you can buy them at radio shack, they are called resistors. Get the prewired kind on ebay, because the radio shack ones have to be connected to speaker wire. your better off just buying a nice speaker component set (tweeter and 5 1/4 or 6 1/2 woofer) which you can get on ebay for new under $40.00 a pair. You will need an amp to power them. used on ebay for under $40.00.

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Oh God, They're NOT resistors. CAPACITORS. NOT THE SAME THING!

we just call them bass blockers and electricians call em resistors and what not.. go to ur local electronics (not best buys and stuff) store and just ask...they will help