I'm not quite happy with my main speakers, they are the old Focal Aria 7 TLR kit (with the Orca designed x-over) I managed to score a couple of years ago for some insanely good price.
The worst part is that I don't think I can truly put my finger on what I don't like about them. They produce good bass and intergrate very well with my sub, the highs are crystal clear, and there is plenty of detail all around. But there is still something missing and it's driving me nuts. I know it's not the components themselves as I love the sound of a good metal dome tweeter, and I've heard enough kevlar drivers to know that I like what I hear (I have yet to not like a JMLabs speaker, from the cheap end to the uber-high end....I love the sound of B&W 800 series, etc).
So I keep coming back to that x-over that came with this thing.
They say they are x-over'ing at 2500Hz, but the cheesy online x-over calculators don't really agree with that, in either case it looks to be standard text-book calculations with no regards to anything else, certainly nothing inline to deal with the big 1Khz bump in the 7k4411 impedence plot (and that's a published plot!).
So I was thinking of picking up LSPCad and see what I can come up with, but like most things I'm sure it's not an easy process to design a good x-over without lots of experience. But how hard is it? Will a relative newbie be able to come up with good results by reading a few books, asking lots of questions and using a good software package with measurement capabilities?
Andrew
The worst part is that I don't think I can truly put my finger on what I don't like about them. They produce good bass and intergrate very well with my sub, the highs are crystal clear, and there is plenty of detail all around. But there is still something missing and it's driving me nuts. I know it's not the components themselves as I love the sound of a good metal dome tweeter, and I've heard enough kevlar drivers to know that I like what I hear (I have yet to not like a JMLabs speaker, from the cheap end to the uber-high end....I love the sound of B&W 800 series, etc).
So I keep coming back to that x-over that came with this thing.
They say they are x-over'ing at 2500Hz, but the cheesy online x-over calculators don't really agree with that, in either case it looks to be standard text-book calculations with no regards to anything else, certainly nothing inline to deal with the big 1Khz bump in the 7k4411 impedence plot (and that's a published plot!).
So I was thinking of picking up LSPCad and see what I can come up with, but like most things I'm sure it's not an easy process to design a good x-over without lots of experience. But how hard is it? Will a relative newbie be able to come up with good results by reading a few books, asking lots of questions and using a good software package with measurement capabilities?
Andrew
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