Our last several month where kind of a roller coaster since we moved into our new house. It has been a three steps forward and then two steps backwards process, as things break and problems are discovered. So I needed something fun to work on (other then fixing termite damage, flood damage, etc, etc... :roll: ).
So I decided to build the monitors for future use in my future HT setup.
I wanted to try something new (for me), solid wood baffle.
Edit: Pictures taken at my brothers house, my house looks like a bomb exploaded in the middle of it.
I posted this on FroDaddy's build thread:
"All the drivers are brand new and where broken in for about 15 hours on a music CD. Then I listened to them, they sounded good, but I felt something was terribly off. I hooked up the Statements and I was amazed at the difference, they sound completly different. Much softer sound more detailed, to my ears a night and day difference, like they where a completely different design using different drivers. I then pushed on the W4's cones very gently and the new one where so much stiffer, to the point that it was very easily detected.
Then I changed the W4 in the monitors to the ones in the Statements and the 'MAGIC' happened and they sound great. I changed the ribbons after that which did not make a big difference if any. I always knew that speakers need to be broken in, but I did not think the difference it makes was so big. My question is (for Curt, I guess), when designing a crossover how do you take into account those changes? and how do you break in the drivers?"
Thanks again ,
Asi.
So I decided to build the monitors for future use in my future HT setup.
I wanted to try something new (for me), solid wood baffle.
Edit: Pictures taken at my brothers house, my house looks like a bomb exploaded in the middle of it.
I posted this on FroDaddy's build thread:
"All the drivers are brand new and where broken in for about 15 hours on a music CD. Then I listened to them, they sounded good, but I felt something was terribly off. I hooked up the Statements and I was amazed at the difference, they sound completly different. Much softer sound more detailed, to my ears a night and day difference, like they where a completely different design using different drivers. I then pushed on the W4's cones very gently and the new one where so much stiffer, to the point that it was very easily detected.
Then I changed the W4 in the monitors to the ones in the Statements and the 'MAGIC' happened and they sound great. I changed the ribbons after that which did not make a big difference if any. I always knew that speakers need to be broken in, but I did not think the difference it makes was so big. My question is (for Curt, I guess), when designing a crossover how do you take into account those changes? and how do you break in the drivers?"
Thanks again ,
Asi.
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