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In the Thread: Crossover Design
Post Subject: EdgarHorn, 2A3, cables, wire, DEQXPosted by drdna on: 12/30/2011
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I know that speaker position and room acoustics are important.  I use a laser to align the speakers, room treatments, hallographs, crystals, ionizer, Z-sleeves, bybee filters, etc.  I also have power conditioners, installed dedicated electric panel with thick gauge copper wires.  I use high end cables throughout from power to interconnects to speakers.

Marc, I make everything myself, amplifiers, preamp, cables, etc. not because I especially enjoy it, but because what I want is not available. Stop using the laser to align your speakers. Use your ears.

Listening is the only way, because that is the final important result anyway isn't it. Everything else is a tool to help, but the bottom line is the Sound. Don't take what anyone says for gospel, including me, because listening is different for everyone. I have written about this topic a bit in the past if you dig up my old entries.

The simplest changes are sometimes the most profound. I make all my own cables and different cables for the different individual speakers. Here I mean different metal alloys and different gauge widths for each driver became necessary for the EdgarHorn. My experience changing the crossover was that it caused deterioration in the Sound, so I left it alone ultimately. 

The most important thing that will make the biggest difference will be to find DPOLS for your horns. And to do this you must abandon the laser and the measuring tape and trust your self.

Adrian

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