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MrNaturl
MrNaturl Posts: 19
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I have a pair of 4th gen speakers with the BE1807 B boards in them and found a pair of boards that are BE1807 A. Is there any difference in these two that would prevent me from doing the cap upgrade and just switching them out?
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 52,406
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    I can find no reference to the BE1807A board in my material. Is it from the blade/blade 2B?

    Regardless, you are much better off replacing the original boards with Gimpod's custom SDA crossover boards.
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  • MrNaturl
    MrNaturl Posts: 19
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    I don't know if they were B/B or not, does that make a difference? I've scoured the forums and found pictures of these with the A and they look the same as the B. Only reason I want to upgrade these is to limit my down time.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 52,406
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    It only takes a few hours to remove the crossovers, upgrade them and reinstall them.

    You are still much better off using the larger and far superior Gimpod boards. Film/foil caps are considerably larger than the stock caps.
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  • MrNaturl
    MrNaturl Posts: 19
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    You make a nice sales pitch! Really just wanted to take my time with these and I can't find any difference. Is there anything different between b/b and b/p?
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  • gmcman
    gmcman Posts: 1,880
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    @MrNaturl , I heeded the advice here when I bought my 2B's and upgraded my X-overs. After looking at the stock boards with all the upgraded components crammed on them, Gimpods boards was the easiest decision I've made.

    Here's a pic of Gimpods boards with the 2BTL upgrade....extremely well laid out. Cannot recommend enough.

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  • Nesmith98
    Nesmith98 Posts: 225
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    Don't look at it so much as a sales pitch but friendly advice. I built the new boards as far as I could up to the inductors, and then one evening added the inductors, and they were done.

    Here is a link to the Gimpod site for some more information.
    http://www.gimpod.com/partsp2b.html
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  • MrNaturl
    MrNaturl Posts: 19
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    It's all good, those are some really nice boards! I appreciate the input from each of you. I bought these speakers new back in '91 and they still sound great, but I'm sure they could use refreshing in the crossover. I already have the 194's in them so I've been going back and forth on TL'ing selling the 194's going 198's. I picked up these other boards kind of cheap, so to conserve some I'm going to use them. Plus, I can take my time have my speakers to listen to whilst I work on them...and it helps they're wife approved too!
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