Jebiruph
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Their explanation for not using the capacitor applies to systems with the factory amplifier. Since the factory amplifier may already be filtering frequencies to individual speakers, the capacitor isn't doing anything anyway. For people like me with the 5" and no amplifier, the capacitor should help.Here is a video where 5 Star is replacing the 3.5" speakers in a JT. They do some checking of polarity. The also come to the conclusion that the side with the capacitor is negative. I assume this would be the same across the JL and JT. As they say, you can look at the wire in the harness that mates up with the side with the capacitor to double check. They don't use the Metra harnesses, it looks like they splice their own wires in. They also have a video on replacing the knee speakers in a JT. Also note they do not use the capacitor that comes with the Alpine speakers.
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