minimus 7 upgrade
sda2mike
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if you have these spkrs, you know about the kit offered on e--y...worth every penny! i have tdc point 6 speakers, which are clones of the minimus 7W...the speakers sound so much better...pianoes, vocals, strings...no more honkie sound...the bass is even stronger! it is a small cab with a 4" woofer, so it's not going to rattle the windows..my setup is a jolida tube int with a squeezebox...this is used nearfield at the bedside..at that closeness, the bass is there and clean in it's detail..
if you've been on the fence about this...JUMP! i can't reccomend it any higher
mike
if you've been on the fence about this...JUMP! i can't reccomend it any higher
mike
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No more honkie sound? Even if you play Play that Funky Music, White Boy?
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ha! left the door wide open, didn't i???
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I can only hit them ones that come right down the middle with no "stuff" on 'em.
I have no doubt that XO upgrades could only improve the Minimus 7. They're not awful, but they are lacklustre; they are (were) pretty mediocre (albeit inexpensive) imitations of the better minispeakers of their era (i.e., the Visoniks and the ads minispeakers). -
I've bought a couple of his upgrade kits and some power supply caps for a couple of Hafler 200s. Good seller.
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I have had a few pairs in my life. Not a bad little speaker. Used them mainly nearfield with a sub. Pretty decent sound.
What did the upgrade consist of? Do you just upgrade the crossover or redesign it? -
I have had a few pairs in my life. Not a bad little speaker. Used them mainly nearfield with a sub. Pretty decent sound.
What did the upgrade consist of? Do you just upgrade the crossover or redesign it?
it's got caps for the tweeter circuit..you use the existing coil..the woofer side adds a nice coil, resistor and and couple caps...here's a linker
http://www.ebay.com/itm/200716538725?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 -
I have to debate whether it's really worth sticking 30 bucks into mine.
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I have to debate whether it's really worth sticking 30 bucks into mine.
There's a thread at audiokarma (started by the late, great Zilch) on redoing the Minimus 7 XO; I've not spent any time looking at it, but it may be more cost effective to source the parts oneself and do that mod rather than pay a third party for parts and a design.
EDIT: The Zilch thread at AK:
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=199790&highlight=minimus -
Yeah, I probably didn't pay much for them in the first place. I'm sure I waited until RS put 'em on sale and then grabbed a pair because I didn't have much else at the time -- but we're talking thirty years ago.
And I don't use mine much at all. Then again, maybe it's because they don't sound that great!! I'm just not sure they have that much to offer, upgrade or not.
I had a pair of the Minimus 4s too at one time, but I sold those to a guy who used them as "surrounds" -- in the pre-5.1 days, seems like... -
mhardy6647 wrote: »There's a thread at audiokarma (started by the late, great Zilch) on redoing the Minimus 7 XO; I've not spent any time looking at it, but it may be more cost effective to source the parts oneself and do that mod rather than pay a third party for parts and a design.
EDIT: The Zilch thread at AK:
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=199790&highlight=minimus
I've done the Zilch modification with very good results. I think I have three pairs now, with just the one that I have gotten around to modifying.
Mark, thanks again for the single you sent me to help salvage a pair that needed that tweeter. -
You're welcome! I (ahem... umm...) had forgotten that I sent you one :-P I know I've sent a few of 'em along their merry way.
The two pair that I still have were each acquired from R/S when they had one of their regular "half-price" sales (i.e., 19 dollars a pop, way back when). They aren't bad at that price. -
Thanks for the AK link -- I'll give it a look.
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if you have these spkrs, you know about the kit offered on e--y...worth every penny! i have tdc point 6 speakers, which are clones of the minimus 7W...the speakers sound so much better...pianoes, vocals, strings...no more honkie sound...the bass is even stronger! it is a small cab with a 4" woofer, so it's not going to rattle the windows..my setup is a jolida tube int with a squeezebox...this is used nearfield at the bedside..at that closeness, the bass is there and clean in it's detail..
if you've been on the fence about this...JUMP! i can't reccomend it any higher
mike
Minimus 7's are decent enough for night time (not disturbing others).
BTW, are the tdc speakers any good?
I am not sure if this one is similar to what you have.
Klipsch RB81, KG3.5, B&W DM602.5, Polk.
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Hmmm might be worth doing just for the what the heck factor. $30 ha!I got static in my head
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Minimus 7's are decent enough for night time (not disturbing others).
BTW, are the tdc speakers any good?
I am not sure if this one is similar to what you have.
Heh, I once, long ago, had a pair just like those from my favorite local emporium. I thought that they were terrible, but they're really not. Those phenolic ring cone tweeters made by CTS are actually quite decent sounding if not terribly extended. The woofers, I suspect, are Quam OEM. When I had them, I wasn't aware of the EIA manufacturer/date coding, so I never even looked. They (of course) needed to be refoamed and - though I knew foam could be replaced - I didn't bother and just chucked them. Saved the tweeters, used the boxes with full range drivers for a while but ultimately pitched them. Silly me.
More or less a house brand speaker from one of the hifi companies of the 1970s or early 1980s... again, nothing special but not trash either.
EIA code info at http://www.webervst.com/codes.html -
A teeny bit more on TDC, from the 1978 Tech HiFi catalog :-)
And then there were these TDCs, found at my favorite local emporium. As their original designer intended, or Frankenspeakers? No one alive today seems to know for sure :-) They didn't sound horrible, actually.
