"The speakers sound spectacular. Much more open and detailed than with the original crossovers, and they really open up the music. If they will improve as the new parts get conditioned & burned in there won't be enough superlatives to describe them! To help accelerate the burn-in tomorrow the tuner will be hooked up and kept on when not using the CD player.
Tomorrow I may try them without the front covers and the internal light dialed up. When seated I may be looking right into the windows.
You have made a great speaker exceptional and resolved the problems with capacitors at or beyond their life expectancy, and the "old" technology being outdated.
Thanks for putting this project together. "
- Not Tom
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
A tuner was used to run the stereo system for the past 10 days with little "off" time, passing the 200 hour mark yesterday.
When now playing the same CD as in the first few hours the soundstage is much broader and deeper, and the richness and detail in the material is substantially increased (at least 30% to 35%).
The system now shows how many CDs are not recorded with a lot of depth and richness to the material. Those CDs with "depth" to the recording really come to life. The best example is with triangles on one recording where the strike, resonance, and decay of the tone is real and "suspended in air." The tight control over the bass now also brings out nuances that were not even heard with the original crossovers.
The speakers sound better than anything I've ever experienced! Thanks for making this happen, and for all of your time and effort. Let me know if there I anything I can do to help with your future projects.
He is using an assortment of high powered Krell gear with a large spacious room
- Not Tom
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
wow...
WHen I get around to doing the SRS/M cabinet project, I might want to do something similar.
Congrats to both of you for raising the bar for the rest of us to follow.
The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, TriangleArt Reference SE with Pass Labs Xono Phono Preamp, Walker Precision Motor Drive, ClearAudio Goldfinger Statement V2 cartridge and Origin Conqueror Mk3c tonearm, Polk Audio "Signature" Reference Series 1.2TL with complete mods, Pass Labs X0.2 three chassis preamp, PS Audio PerfectWave DAC MkII, Pioneer Elite SC-LX701, Oppo UDP-205 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered…History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right” — George Orwell
“If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
Awesome!!! I would love to hear them, I can only imagine.
Yamaha RXA1030, Yamaha CD, Bluesound node 2i, Tidal
Polk SDA2btl highly modded
Polk SDA 1C
Polk CS350 LS x2
Polk m5jr
Kimber 8TC
Sony 55" Bravia
Wish list SVS sub
Technically speaking, no, but you can generally see small differences between stock and modified crossovers. It is within the specifications of the speakers.
- Not Tom
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
FYI, speakers do not have a signal to noise ratio spec.
Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
Not sure if anyone else has noticed this but the use of the Clarity MR caps took the longest to settle in comparison to other caps I have used, (Sonic, Solen)..
Of the four sets of crossovers Vr3 Mods has done for me, the most recent set, using Clarity MRs, took by far the longest to burn in -- over 300 hours. There was significant improvement at the 250 hours point, but somewhere north of 300-325 hours my SDA SRS 1.2TLs really blossomed, opened up. An amazing experience!
Family Room, Innuos Statement streamer with Morrow Audios USB cable to DirectStream DAC w/Bridge II; AQ Sky XLRs, McIntosh MC 220 Tube Pre; AQ Sky XLRs, CAT 600.2 Dualmono Amp, Morrow SP7 Speaker Cables, SDA SRS 1.2tls (RD0198s, Dreadnought, Black Hole 5, Acousta-Stuf, Dynamat Extreme, JBWeld. Vr3 Mods: "The Abbot" Monastery-Level Xovers, Custom Internal Wiring, Binding Post Plates, & SDA ICs).
Exercise Room, Wadia 171 iPod Dock, PS Audio PerfectWave Transport, Innuos Streamer with Cat 6 cable connection to PS Audio PerfectWave MkII DAC w/Bridge II, AQ Sky XLRs, Perreaux PMF3150 Amp, Dreadnought, Supra Rondo 4x2.5 Speaker Cables, SDA 1Cs (Vr3 Mods Xovers).
Synology 713+ NAS on Gigabit LAN serving PW MkII DAC & DirectStream DAC.
I remember when the MR capacitors on my Super Towers were breaking in, me and @lightman1 were here enjoying a few glasses of alcoholic beverages around Thanksgiving. We were going through the paces on the Super Towers and it was like a switch was hit, they simply blossomed into this whole other dimension of insanity.
- Not Tom
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
Ok, after many designs and a lot of thrown away pieces we had to find a handle design that worked. We went with a throw back of the old but more substantial, milled from 1" wide, 1/2" deep aluminum
This will come together quickly, everything gets painted soon and everything will be pre-wired
before it goes on the chassis
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"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
"The speakers sound spectacular. Much more open and detailed than with the original crossovers, and they really open up the music. If they will improve as the new parts get conditioned & burned in there won't be enough superlatives to describe them! To help accelerate the burn-in tomorrow the tuner will be hooked up and kept on when not using the CD player.
Tomorrow I may try them without the front covers and the internal light dialed up. When seated I may be looking right into the windows.
You have made a great speaker exceptional and resolved the problems with capacitors at or beyond their life expectancy, and the "old" technology being outdated.
Thanks for putting this project together. "
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
A tuner was used to run the stereo system for the past 10 days with little "off" time, passing the 200 hour mark yesterday.
When now playing the same CD as in the first few hours the soundstage is much broader and deeper, and the richness and detail in the material is substantially increased (at least 30% to 35%).
The system now shows how many CDs are not recorded with a lot of depth and richness to the material. Those CDs with "depth" to the recording really come to life. The best example is with triangles on one recording where the strike, resonance, and decay of the tone is real and "suspended in air." The tight control over the bass now also brings out nuances that were not even heard with the original crossovers.
The speakers sound better than anything I've ever experienced! Thanks for making this happen, and for all of your time and effort. Let me know if there I anything I can do to help with your future projects.
He is using an assortment of high powered Krell gear with a large spacious room
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
WHen I get around to doing the SRS/M cabinet project, I might want to do something similar.
Congrats to both of you for raising the bar for the rest of us to follow.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered…History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right” — George Orwell
“If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
Thank you for the compliments!
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
Bedroom system: Carver CT-24, Parasound HCA-800II, Monitor 10's
Additional projects: RTA 12c's
He's fooling you, his Transformer robots do all the work while he sleeps
Nice job
Desktop rig: LSi7, Polk 110sub, Dayens Ampino amp, W4S DAC/pre, Sonos, JRiver
Gear on standby: Melody 101 tube pre, Unison Research Simply Italy Integrated
Gone to new homes: (Matt Polk's)Threshold Stasis SA12e monoblocks, Pass XA30.5 amp, Usher MD2 speakers, Dynaudio C4 platinum speakers, Modwright LS100 (voltz), Simaudio 780D DAC
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The Transformers do way more work than me... lol (I wish)
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
Polk SDA2btl highly modded
Polk SDA 1C
Polk CS350 LS x2
Polk m5jr
Kimber 8TC
Sony 55" Bravia
Wish list SVS sub
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
Would these upgrades change the s/n ratio , sensativety and frequency response etc?
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
Exercise Room, Wadia 171 iPod Dock, PS Audio PerfectWave Transport, Innuos Streamer with Cat 6 cable connection to PS Audio PerfectWave MkII DAC w/Bridge II, AQ Sky XLRs, Perreaux PMF3150 Amp, Dreadnought, Supra Rondo 4x2.5 Speaker Cables, SDA 1Cs (Vr3 Mods Xovers).
Synology 713+ NAS on Gigabit LAN serving PW MkII DAC & DirectStream DAC.
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
@xschop example 1
"No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro