Question about crossover rebuilding.
Rivrrat
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I see a lot of you rebuild your crossovers, mostly replacing the caps. Do you do this as a function of age, hours, or the need to tinker?
I bought my 10B's new about 20 yrs ago, but I doubt they've averaged much over 200 hrs a year of play over their lifetime. Right now they get about 6 hrs a week.
As far as the labor, I can use a soldering iron just fine, but it's enough like what I do for a living, that I don't want to pull them apart if I'm not going to gain anything for the effort.
What say you all?
I bought my 10B's new about 20 yrs ago, but I doubt they've averaged much over 200 hrs a year of play over their lifetime. Right now they get about 6 hrs a week.
As far as the labor, I can use a soldering iron just fine, but it's enough like what I do for a living, that I don't want to pull them apart if I'm not going to gain anything for the effort.
What say you all?
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I'm going to be upgrading/updating all my SDA crossovers soon mainly to put better quality components which improve the sound and oh yeah cause the crossovers are 15 to 20 years old.
From what I've read here and in Raife's Compendium the sonic improvements are not subtle. -
I would certainly replace any electrolytic caps with new ones as they tend deteriorate and change value over time.Also if there are any electrolytic types in series with tweeter or midrange drivers I would replace them with polypropylene types.Adding the poly's should improve the level of hi and midrange detail.Rivrrat wrote:I see a lot of you rebuild your crossovers, mostly replacing the caps. Do you do this as a function of age, hours, or the need to tinker?
What say you all?
Thats my $.02
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