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How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers?

 

I just watched a Danny Richie YouTube video from three weeks ago (linked below). Danny is the owner/designer of GR Research, a company that caters to the DIY loudspeaker community. He designs and sells kits that contain the drivers and crossover schematics to his loudspeakers, to hi-fi enthusiasts who are willing and able to build their own enclosures (though he also has a few cabinet makers who will do it for you if you are willing to pay them to do so).

Danny has also designed crossovers for loudspeaker companies who lack his crossover design knowledge. In addition, he offers a service to consumers who, while liking some aspects of the sound of their loudspeakers, find some degree of fault in those loudspeakers, faults Danny offers to try to eliminate. Send Danny one of your loudspeakers, and he will free of charge do a complete evaluation of it's design. If his evaluation reveals design faults (almost always crossover related) he is able to cure, he offers a crossover upgrade kit as a product.

Some make the case that Danny will of course find fault in the designs of others, in an attempt to sell you one of his loudspeaker kits. A reasonable accusation, were it not for the fact that---for instance---in this particular video (an examination of an Eggleston model) Danny makes Eggleston an offer to drop into the company headquarters and help them correct the glaring faults he found in the crossover design of the Eggleston loudspeaker a customer sent him.

Even if you are skeptical---ESPECIALLY if you are---why not give the video a viewing? Like the loudspeaker evaluation, it's free.

 

 

https://youtu.be/1wF-DEEXv64?si=tmd6JI3DFBq8GAjK&t=1

 

And for owners of other loudspeakers, there are a number of other GR Research videos in which other models are evaluated. 

 

 

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ned1000
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lalitk no it is not so expensive to send speakers and well worth it to get the review and opinion as to whether it can be upgraded i have sent several speakers to him ( you only need to send ONE ! )  and enjoyed the collaboration and the project ! all were rendered listenable even the cheap speakers i sent ! it changed them into speakers i would keep, listen to and recomend it was project a fun one ! 
 

ned1000
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travelinjack

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"He is a hater and a shill.  At best his kits offer small and likely inaudible improvements." 
noone would do it if it was "small and likely inaudible improvements." an absurd comment and illogical 
OH SO negative ! you have not done any research on him and read any reviews ! 
er NO you sound like the hater! and he is no shill i have worked w/ him on several projects and the speakers had dramatic improvements NOW they were worth keeping and listening to! even cheap speakers !  
I think you have no idea how cheap the parts in many speakers are! some speakers even expensive ones have NO crossover only a couple caps to protect the tweeter or mid and they are running them as essentially Full range speakers! so even a modest price crossover yields DRAMATIC results! I have seen , heard it ! 
IF you were objective and fair you would listen to the before and after and watch some of the videos! ,but you are not are you ? so not worth it wasting breath to refute you really ! sad .

ned1000
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exactly even the $26K willson watt pupies were totally flawed watch this be amazed! ( he fixes them! ) 
As Danny points out , no speaker maker is going to deliberately make error in sound a huge blip , gap spike , hole in a graph of frequency response, an error ! it is funny how some people seen to think these things are deliberate and not a mistake
they THINK they want their speaker to sound like crap deliberately ! NO  ! 
https://youtu.be/pIt2pcQvf6M?si=QuDGheuswLyF_2-2

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