How does this compare, in your opinion, to your Frugalhorn lite and the foamcore MEH? I have built the Frugalhorn and really like it, but it is a bit big and quite top heavy.
The ribbon tweeter and Wiggins XBL woofer are in a TL cabinet I designed. Crossover is similar to the one I developed for the LSA Statement 100’s (which have a passive radiator). No music coming from anything except the foam core K in horn above and a powered 10in sub (Polk PSW10).
How is the chassis grounded? Power cable isn't connected (as it rightfully shouldn't). Not a good sign when an electrical advice video starts with SUCH a big question mark.
Sounds great to me on my HD-600's which makes me need to ask for you to rate/rank these against your/my XSD speakers. I saw a post once by you that there were 4 speakers/designs that were your favorites/best but how would you actually rank them? I will be saving pennies until I can order that flat pack for the XSD as I already have all the drivers and absolutely butchered my prototype build.
Hi - thank you for the video! How does it sound at low volume (as in SPL)? I'm considering this woofer for a 3 way design that I'd like to sound fully detailed at ~70 dB at 1m. Thank you!
It’s not uncommon for crossovers to be built using multiple coils. A lot of people argue that rotating the coils 90 degrees has no benefit. They also don’t believe how extreme coils can affect each other. So while you, in your infinite wisdom, understand this very well, many people just getting into the hobby do not. It’s an excellent real world demonstration as opposed to some dude just saying things on the internet.
X, Sound great(!), did you try that woofer in a larger enclosure like 50-60L BR? I think it would benefit from that, it would bring more air, separation and much deeper bass. I say that based on the woofer data.
Definitely a FAST/WAW design as crossover is at 950kHz so the full range covers most of the band where spatial image and midrange soundstage cues. The woofer provides hefty air movement and chest punch in the 120Hz range.
The highs above 16kHz are obviously more present and there is shimmer and air in high hats and cymbals that were not there either the 10F. Bass wise, I am not sure the SB23 is much better except that maybe it has a larger Sd so technically can move more air. Midrange of a large paper cone tweeter and woofer seems more detailed - but smoothness of midrange has to go to the 10F. Both speakers are very enjoyable, and hard to say if I can say one is better compared to the other. The 10F/RS225 combo has stood the test of time remaining as my main speakers for nearly 8 years now.
Here’s the latest version of this crossover here. Now at 950kHz and an issue with the impedance being too low above 1kHz was fixed vs the last crossover. This helped the overall sound quality and the phase is very smooth through the crossover region.
I read way too slow ;) I am half way through your 10F/8424 & RS225-8 FAST/WAW Ref Monitor thread and had all but discounted the sealed version. I have my heart set on the TL and the bass extension it will provide, but may build the sealed now as well! Thanks X for all your work - you are an endless source of knowledge and inspiration.
Are you sure about the tweeter signature?... The PS95-8 is Dayton's full range 3,5'' driver, doesn't look to be used here. Anyway the highs are awesome
Yes, I am quite positive of the tweeter make and model. I bought these myself a few years ago when testing the different full range drivers for the blind comparison test. I got another set recently and they measure very similarly.
This is driven by prototype of Warp-1 amp on the top right of the rack. As you can see, the chassis is bare aluminum vs black powder coat on the production.
Great idea to use SB23, but the Dayton Audio mid-tweeter sounds too sibilant, at least through my speakers. Between the SB23NRXS45 and the RS225, which one do you prefer?
It’s the one on the left when I pan the camera over at 5 seconds into the video at the beginning. The two speakers are placed wider than the angle my camera can capture at the listening position. I don’t switch to wide angle lens mode in the iPhone because Apple does some funny things with the microphones when using the wide angle lens to “spatialize” the sound to make it sound even wider than it is. If you follow the link at the bottom of the description, you can see a better photo of the speaker and a description of the filter used plus measurements.
