bryoncunningham
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| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? 02-17-11: LearsfoolThe only quibble I still have with this discussion is with the importance many of you are placing on minute changes of amplitude in overtones within a musician's timbre as being the major factor in a perception of "warmth." (I a... | |
| Speaker crossover mod. Your advice? Face - Sorry, my last post wasn't that clear. The tweeter has 2 caps associated with it - C1 and C2 - that are 3.6uF and 6.8uF. What I was trying to say in my last post is that I'm currently leaning toward doing this:1. Replacing the stock 3.6uF c... | |
| Speaker crossover mod. Your advice? Thanks Jeffrey. Not trying to make things difficult. Trying not to make a mistake I will regret. To a pro, a rookie's caution may seem silly. But we are all rookies at one time or another.Speaking of not making a mistake...As Magfan pointed out, i... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? 02-16-11: NewbeeTubes. If you have speakers appropriate to your room and to tubes in the first place, and these speakers have a reasonably good sense of 'natural' resolution, by using tube equipment and carefully using (rolling) tubes therein to g... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? 02-16-11: Unsound"...While other hall effects might sound cool". Yes, but I would think that's more likely in small, highly reverberant halls, and not as likely to happen in typical concert venues.02-16-11: AlmargI can't remember ever being in a h... | |
| Speaker crossover mod. Your advice? Hi Jeffrey - Your advice is greatly appreciated.RE: SoniCaps Gen 1 caps. They have a 3.6uF cap and a 6.8uF cap, but both are only 200V, whereas the stock Focal caps are 250V. So I assume that's not going to work.RE: SoniCap Platinum caps. They don... | |
| Speaker crossover mod. Your advice? Thanks to all for the valuable input.John - No sweat. I was about to send them to you when I saw your last post.RE: Outboard crossover. Unfortunately, that's not in the cards. The room is not dedicated. Plus wife, pets, kids, etc.RE: The size of t... | |
| Speaker crossover mod. Your advice? Thanks Al. I will keep that in mind, in the event I can't find or special order a 3.6uF cap.John - Do you recommend Clarity MR for both tweeter caps? What about mixing caps from different manufacturers? Any rules of thumb here?Also, do you think I... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? 02-13-11: Almarg...realistic reproduction of timbre, which as I see it correlates with accurate reproduction of the RELATIVE amplitudes of the harmonics and the fundamental of each note, as well as proper time domain performance and ambience repro... | |
| Speaker crossover mod. Your advice? Thanks, Al. I assumed the caps were uF, even though they are not marked as such. As this is my first attempt at a mod, I don't want to make a rookie mistake.You are right that 1.8uF is a standard value, so connecting two caps in parallel might be ... | |
| Speaker crossover mod. Your advice? Thanks, Jeff. Just discovered this: "J" indicates a 5% tolerance, according to capacitor codes. In light of this...Is it a safe assumption that the 3.6 and 6.8 caps are 3.6µF and 6.8µF? Are those typical values for caps associated with tweeters?Al... | |
| Pass X150.5 vs. X250.5 I agree that you should look at the room. IME, some adverse room effects, particularly in the high frequencies, are inaudible at lower volumes, but quite noticeable at louder volumes or during peaks.Here is a 10 second test: Standing in a couple d... | |
| Speaker crossover mod. Your advice? Thanks, John, for your advice. I will take a look at the Mundorf thread. I don't know the first thing about caps, so hopefully that will help.I think the plan at this point is to replace the 2 caps for the tweeter, and possibly the resistor for th... | |
| Speaker crossover mod. Your advice? I have created schematics for the crossover. It was tricky at first, but easy after I got the hang of it. Here they are:TWEETERMIDRANGEWOOFERSThe following are the values of the caps and resistors for the various drivers, as labelled on the compon... | |
| Why do subs sound bloated or slow? I rarely post on tweaks, but I just discovered one that is relevant to this thread: I placed 3 Black Diamond Racing Jumbo Pucks under my sub, which is resting on a three inch maple platform. This, in effect, replaced the soft feet of the sub with ... |