grannyring
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| Acoustic Zen Crescendo speaker crossover capacitors ... who makes them? This is the amp I am using to drive them right now. It started its life as a Cary Rocket 88r. I modified it to the hilt with....- all high quality film caps in the power supply (Clarity TC, ASC, Obbligato) and increased the capacitance. Needed to... | |
| Acoustic Zen Crescendo speaker crossover capacitors ... who makes them? There is also an additional board on the very bottom of the speaker that I have not touched as yet. It is for the bass drivers. Unfortunately it contains two 1000uf electrolytic caps! The two resistors on the bass board are sand cast and will be r... | |
| Acoustic Zen Crescendo speaker crossover capacitors ... who makes them? This link should take you to a slide show. The first pic and last are the original board with no upgrades. http://s1097.photobucket.com/user/grannyring1/slideshow/ | |
| Acoustic Zen Crescendo speaker crossover capacitors ... who makes them? Ok, I finished the upgraded crossover board and just installed them. A ton of work. Imagine replacing caps that are 1/2 inch in diameter and 2.5 inches long with caps almost 6 inches long and 4.5 inch diameter! Had to get it all to fit into the sa... | |
| Why are Harbeth speakers expensive while its drivers are not. Some of the best sounding speakers you could ever own. Lots of R&D and time into the designs. Price is based on performance and simple economics. They are worth it is because they sound better then competition at the same price point. | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings Class D can be SOTA in sound on all frequencies. Need to hear some of the best Class D to know that. Remember, those economical Class D amps in subs and speakers do not speak to the whole market of Class D offerings. | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings My Lyngdorf unit is digital so I am referring to newer amp technology in general. | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings With so many Class D amps and price points it's not possible so say Class D is not there yet, or I tried and it is not good enough yet etc...All that can really be said is " I tried one or two and that particular amp was not as good as my...." We... | |
| Changing internal cabling, anyone use Jantzen solid conductor? Here is the part number, yes under hookup wire and sold as a single strand. Simply twist every 1.5 - 2 inches and mark one positive and negative with heat shrink on the very ends. Do not terminate, just use the bare wire. Bested my $2000 cables an... | |
| No bias reading, tubes lit up, no sound I do not think it is another issue elsewhere in the amp. It is most certainly a grounding issue. Your rewire has upset the original grounding scheme. Go back and match what was done originally. Exactly. | |
| Changing internal cabling, anyone use Jantzen solid conductor? Get the new Duelund 16ga stranded and thinned wire in cotton for $10 meter from Parts Connextion. Duelund as has a new 20ga for $7 meter I think. They are just wonderful. | |
| Acoustic Zen Crescendo speaker crossover capacitors ... who makes them? You are so right. Most just kind of scold you verbally and think your nuts:) | |
| Crossover capacitor voltage ratings.... Parts Connextion sells Solen and here is the price and size;100uf / 400VDC, PB Series, 56mm D x 72mm L, Eachp$28.21 $28.21 pcX USD Price They are Solen fast cap brand, You will not find a lower priced film cap this large, however the other caps I ... | |
| Crossover capacitor voltage ratings.... 100 volts AC = 140 volts or so vdc (1.4 x AC volts = DC volts) | |
| Crossover capacitor voltage ratings.... Your speakers even if they are rather inefficient and you play your music very loud would be driven with 10-15 volts max. Most of the time only 1.5 - 4 volts. You are fine with 100 vdc! I would not use electrolytics. If you want the best sound out... |