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it's a silver wrapped teflon tube configuration

I don't think you're going to do a whole lot better in your target price range personally, and I love rolling in new caps

so, from what I can gather they sound like $40 speakers from Best Buy. j/k, I'll try and help as much as I can... I see that there are a few incarnations of these crossovers out there as well.

hm, tough to follow from the pics. It does look at the negative for the tweeter is not wired properly though, as it's going to the cap, where it should be just connected to the coil. I'm assuming you unwound the stock coil per the instructions? I'd just wire up one driver and use a sweep tone to listen to it. Then disconnect the driver and isolate the second and try the sweep tone. If a specific frequnency range sound bad, note that. It's possible you've already fried the driver too I suppose. Do you have any idea who made the coaxial driver and if there's a datasheet somewhere? I suppose you have no way of comparing to the original driver since you've unwound one of the coils ... what do you mean by sounds "bad", by the way... If you've had someone verify that the crossover is okay, then really you only have a few options. Incorrect wiring or a bad driver ... or bad ears I suppose

can I get a picture and schematic of the crossover?

Remember, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"

copy-cat

thanks. this has been immensely helpful. Hold that thought

lol. I mean switch the tweeter but not the woofer. I think they need to be wired out of phase. This sort of topology is normal, given the type of crossover.

can I make a friendly wager? I bet, though am not sure, that the tweeter should be reverse polarity.

not really a specific disc, just wanting to get a list of all classical discs that have PCM 24/96 tracks on them that don't require a DVD-A player.

I can probably help. Do you have a way to take measurements? A measurement microphone and a sound card at minimum.

So, this is a really stupid question, but I was wondering if DVD-A discs have PCM 24/96 tracks on them? If I have a transport that can play the PCM information off of DVD-V discs, is there any reason it won't work with DVD-A discs? Thanks!

The project is coming along slowly. I just sent off the plans for the case. I'm going to try out the new case option at Front Panel Express. I'm going to try and cram things in a 42mm high enclosure, with the heat sinks and tubes top mounted. If that doesn't work, then I'll go for the larger 56mm option, which will definitely work with no problems. Since I hadn't decided about this, I didn't order the front and rear panels this time around. I'm getting a sample of the blue colored material from FPE as well, perhaps I'll go with that for the front panel. I'll post pics once the case gets here

I guess I was wondering if isolating the inputs from the case (which is used as a ground) and/or removing that funky XLR jack wiring would help at all ...

bump

can I put one of those 31337 operating systems from Berkeley on it? If so, I'll take one!

Interesting thread that has popped up from some recent controversy in Stereophile surround the Halco amps. A few heavy-weights are in on this discussion, so it should be interesting! http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1404200

Is that a pancake on the bunny's head?

I'll make a cable this week ... I have the stock cable and some XLRs around that I can use

I think you'll enjoy listening to Al's Twisted Pear stuff as well as Al's new source. Sadly, my DI DAC (the topic of this thread) will not be done by then, and even if it did I'd need a transport (that one you have probably would work nicely, after I did a few mods here and there ...) Actually, perhaps nate will see this. Do you know the transport (and more importantly) the decoder chip (SAAxxxx) used in that transport you made? Perhaps you have some pics of the insides somewhere?

yeah, I'm doing a lot of comparisons to my modded MPX3 SE w/ the HD-650 and the KGSS + SR-007. One thing that is strange is that there is a lot less sibilance with the electrostatic rig... I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing... I mean, it's good in that is sounds better, but perhaps bad in that it's less accurate. This is from rather crummy Verve pressings that are known for this. We'll spin up some Diana Krall at my place and I'll let you listen as well. I'm a bit worried that I won't be able to get things setup just right at the meet, as my current tweaking took a long time to get right. I am going to take this opportunity to send my cartridge in for a cleaning after the meet, so all is good.

do you own a Pico? I didn't see your screen name on the pre-order list. If so, then contact Justin... he offers good support for his products.

sounds pretty impossible to me...