I think the crossover is pretty impressive. When I heard it was first order I expected to see one capacitor, and maybe one inductor for the woofer. I was surprised to see how much more is going on on this board. I believe there were 4 indictors and maybe 6 or more capacitors, and of course a few resistors. I have not seen a schematic yet but plan to draw one up myself if I can't locate one. Since I know it is first order, I assume all the other LC components are for precise impedance matching of the drivers as part of the critical phase design. The components are not the highest quality, but they appear to be more than adequate. I like that all the inductors are air core. I wasn't sure if I would like the first order sound at first, but I do. I realize any multi emitter system will have interference issues, but they don't seem objectionable here. The fact that both drivers are playing together over the wider transition band provides a rich midrange with a very smooth transition of timber between low to high and seems to work well in this case. I am still learning about this, but apparently it requires some very special drivers to play together this well. It is probably simpler to just use a steep 4th order crossover and not have to worry at all about the two drivers blending. It would be nice to try alternate crossovers in this box and hear the difference. I am curious.
Dynaudio Special 40 in the house
I just bought a used mint pair of Dynaudio Special 40 to try. I could not resist as I got a good price, and always wanted to try a pair of these.
Fun little monitors. That 28 mm soft dome tweeter ( Esotar) is impressive. Smooth and resolute. ( it plays down to 1000 hz, strong neodymium magnet behind a 28 mm dome) I can say it is one on the best soft domes outhere, along with the Scanspeak ring dome one used on Wilson speakers.
Magico , B&W , beryllium and diamond tweets are probably a bit better. But still, very impressive how engineers have come to make such good sounding soft domes tweets these days.
Generally, the 40s pros:
- Smooth, resolution, good rythm, good dispersion, superb finish and lacker.
cons:
- Sometimes a bit laidback and more bite would be appreciated. Not the last word in bass extension, and articulation...Cabinet can resonate a bit sometimes.
Opinions ?
Fun little monitors. That 28 mm soft dome tweeter ( Esotar) is impressive. Smooth and resolute. ( it plays down to 1000 hz, strong neodymium magnet behind a 28 mm dome) I can say it is one on the best soft domes outhere, along with the Scanspeak ring dome one used on Wilson speakers.
Magico , B&W , beryllium and diamond tweets are probably a bit better. But still, very impressive how engineers have come to make such good sounding soft domes tweets these days.
Generally, the 40s pros:
- Smooth, resolution, good rythm, good dispersion, superb finish and lacker.
cons:
- Sometimes a bit laidback and more bite would be appreciated. Not the last word in bass extension, and articulation...Cabinet can resonate a bit sometimes.
Opinions ?
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