@millercarbon,
Excellent to hear about folks being curious about modding the crossovers in their speakers. I am good friends with a very prominent speaker designer whose had several very successful speaker companies and he has shared a few secrets with me about what makes a great crossover designs, some of which I can’t reveal for obvious reasons.
I have replaced the mid/tweet caps in one of my speakers from Mundorf EVO to Mundorf Silver/Gold oil and the results were not subtle at all! What was already a high resolution speaker became a liquid see through panorama with greater dynamic reserves and tonal density. This crossover is all point to point wiring with the leads of the components used to make the connections, inductors arranged in space and in relation to each other to mitigate interaction and shock mounted to minimize cabinet/woofer vibration infiltration. Each driver gets its own separate network arranged in space to minimize interaction again.
One misconception I’ve heard and read about is that shunt component quality in a crossover don’t matter which is not true. Looking at the voltage signal it swings both positive and negative and this involves the shunt components as well. Being curious as I am, I replaced a shunt cap in a woofer circuit from a cheap elecrolytic 68uf 10v cap to a Mundorf EVO 68uf 450V cap and while the results were not as dramatic as those with the silver/gold oil caps in the mid/tweet circuits, it was certainly noticeable which surprisingly extended up into the mid and treble frequencies.
My next adventures are in high end resistors at some point.
Cheers
Excellent to hear about folks being curious about modding the crossovers in their speakers. I am good friends with a very prominent speaker designer whose had several very successful speaker companies and he has shared a few secrets with me about what makes a great crossover designs, some of which I can’t reveal for obvious reasons.
I have replaced the mid/tweet caps in one of my speakers from Mundorf EVO to Mundorf Silver/Gold oil and the results were not subtle at all! What was already a high resolution speaker became a liquid see through panorama with greater dynamic reserves and tonal density. This crossover is all point to point wiring with the leads of the components used to make the connections, inductors arranged in space and in relation to each other to mitigate interaction and shock mounted to minimize cabinet/woofer vibration infiltration. Each driver gets its own separate network arranged in space to minimize interaction again.
One misconception I’ve heard and read about is that shunt component quality in a crossover don’t matter which is not true. Looking at the voltage signal it swings both positive and negative and this involves the shunt components as well. Being curious as I am, I replaced a shunt cap in a woofer circuit from a cheap elecrolytic 68uf 10v cap to a Mundorf EVO 68uf 450V cap and while the results were not as dramatic as those with the silver/gold oil caps in the mid/tweet circuits, it was certainly noticeable which surprisingly extended up into the mid and treble frequencies.
My next adventures are in high end resistors at some point.
Cheers