# Speaker crossover parts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaker-crossover-parts/109729>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 18, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaker-crossover-parts/109729 "2002-05-18T20:01:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![RaginAzn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@RaginAzn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaginAzn)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaker-crossover-parts/109729/1 "2002-05-18T20:01:23Z")

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Hi, I took a class on speaker building in high school, and I want to build new crossover circuits for the speakers I made. The thing is, when I built my speakers, the parts came out of a huge bin that the teacher lugged out of the closet. I’m not in high school anymore, and also, I want to get some parts that haven’t been tumbling around in a bin over 10 years. Does anyone know where I can get (or mailorder) inductors, capacitors, and resistors? It wasn’t a very detailed class (though we made nice speakers), so he never told us what type of inductors capacitors, and resistors we put in our speakers. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Billy\_Rubin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billy_rubin/32/3622_2.png) [@Billy\_Rubin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Rubin)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaker-crossover-parts/109729/2 "2002-05-18T20:05:45Z")

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[this](http://www.partsexpress.com/webpage.cfm?&DID=7&WebPage_ID=29) is a good place to buy all the parts you need, although Radio Shaft will also have a lot of useful stuff.

Good luck!

b.

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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaker-crossover-parts/109729/3 "2002-05-18T20:05:53Z")

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Radio Shack, as well as many other online sources, sell not only the parts but complete crossovers as well - I used Radio Shack 3-way crossovers to build my speakers, and they work amazingly well.

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**Author:** ![Tedster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@Tedster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tedster)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaker-crossover-parts/109729/4 "2002-05-18T20:26:37Z")

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I’ve had very good luck with Mouser –

[http://www.mouser.com](http://www.mouser.com)

They ship fast and have no minimum order. They are generally the cheapest I’ve found as well. They cater primarily to the wholesale market, but they will sell onesies and twosies, no problem.

They have a tremendous selection of all things electronically related, capacitors, resistors, power supplies, chips of all sorts, etc.

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaker-crossover-parts/109729/5 "2002-05-19T00:43:49Z")

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[www.mcmelectronics.com](http://www.mcmelectronics.com)

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaker-crossover-parts/109729/6 "2002-05-19T05:58:28Z")

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Darn. I thought is was going to be a thread about guest appearences in the works of Orson Scott Card. 😉

Ranchoth