CRS+ (2 board vs 1 board) questions.
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Questions
- For anyone who had a 2-board crossover and upgraded to the last gen, what did you notice as the most palpable changes to the sound/presentation?
- Did anyone who went to the last gen crossover regret it?
- There’s no way to Dread a non-last-gen crossover, correct? If you want to do mono blocks (or just get that Dread improvement), you must go gen 4, right?
- There’s a size difference between the 2-board CRS+ and the 1-board, true?
- Has anyone built a last-gen CRS+ cab from scratch?
- Did anyone ever felt the entire face of a CRS?
Background
I got a pair of junkyard CRS+ to have my way with.
They were in rough shape; a fitting companion pair to my 1C
I’ve sat with them for a month now. I’m impressed. They don’t have the force of the 1C, but wow. What an amazing little speaker.
Going through old posts to learn a little more about them, I came across a few things where people talked about the comparisons between SDA models, but not much on the last 2 CRS+ revisions.
- For anyone who had a 2-board crossover and upgraded to the last gen, what did you notice as the most palpable changes to the sound/presentation?
- Did anyone who went to the last gen crossover regret it?
- There’s no way to Dread a non-last-gen crossover, correct? If you want to do mono blocks (or just get that Dread improvement), you must go gen 4, right?
- There’s a size difference between the 2-board CRS+ and the 1-board, true?
- Has anyone built a last-gen CRS+ cab from scratch?
- Did anyone ever felt the entire face of a CRS?
Background
I got a pair of junkyard CRS+ to have my way with.
They were in rough shape; a fitting companion pair to my 1C
I’ve sat with them for a month now. I’m impressed. They don’t have the force of the 1C, but wow. What an amazing little speaker.
Going through old posts to learn a little more about them, I came across a few things where people talked about the comparisons between SDA models, but not much on the last 2 CRS+ revisions.
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Comments
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The big difference between them is the 2 board blade/Blade crossovers both blades carry signal. The 1 board pin/blade crossovers, only the pins carry signal, the blades connect to the ground inside the cabinet to the negative binding posts. Therefore you have the ability to use monobloc's or non-common ground amps only then does the blade come into play, with the use of the AI-1 cable or a dreadnought to tie the grounds together.
