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Should I use capacitors for tweeters powered by Hypex Fa123 ?

Changing my feedback as did not realize how expensive that tweeter is...

Use the caps and protect those tweeters.
 
Use a large electrolytic to push any FR effects way down low and parallel a nice normal xo cap over it to keep ESR down low. As others have said do all measurements for xo design with the cap in place first.
 
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Can anyone show a picture of how the CAP is connected to the tweeter.

Along the + connector? Between the + and - on the tweeter?
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Either would work, although the lower picture is how its typically done.
 
I recently very carefully compared the Fq responses in SP level signal "before and after" the protection capacitors as shared here.

I highly recommend you to use "proper" protection capacitors for your treasure mid-range drivers, tweeters and super-tweeters.
I am using these, 68 microF Caps for Be-midrange squawkers, 10 microF Caps for Be-Tweeters and metal horn super-tweeters;
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