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Will an inductor in parallel with a speaker?

Act as a hpf?And why does everyone use inductors in series with speakers for low pass filters and not a cap in parallel? Caps are a fraction of the cost

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A cap in parallel will put a greater load on the amplifier
PARELLEL AN INDUCTOR TO THE TWEETER SPEAKER HELP TO REMOVE LOW FREQNCY AWAY.
You need to look more closely at the theory of high and low pass filters. Essentially you need two components in series to form a voltage divider. An inductor has a higher impedance at higher frequencies and a capacitor a higher impedance at lower frequencies. The higher the impedance, the greater the voltage drop across the component. If you put an inductance at the top it will drop more at high frequencies relative to the cap at the bottom, i.e. you have built a low-pass filter. If you put a cap at the top and inductance at the bottom, then the reverse apples: it drops fewer volts at high frequencies and you have built a high-pass filter. Note that the speaker could itself be the inductance in theory, and all you might need would be the capacitor either above or below, but this is not as effective as a separate pair of components. However, simply putting an inductance in series with the speaker is not going to achieve any frequency separation. Likewise, simply putting a capacitor in parallel with the speaker is going to achieve nothing at all.

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