WTF...Has anyone ever heard of Cantons???
I agree about the Coustic, John. I've been around and used Coustic in some form or another off and on since 1991. They quite often get overlooked, a bad rap or something that they don't deserve. Bottom line is it's good gear at a good price. Kinda like how Concept is now IMO.
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Dukk, I see some problems with the layout.
The magnetic fields set up by the inductors as current passes through them, will interfer with each other. The effect is very small though, it takes a pretty good system to be able to pick out the difference. What I would do is tilt the middle inductor on it's side and face it sideways.(towards the iron core inductor) Basically, keep the edges of the inductors as far appart as possible.
I agree with you on the caps, but the tweeter and midrange ones really should be M.I.T. polypropylenes. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Everyone: don't let the 5 watt rating of the resistors fool you, they are just fine for what they do.
Dukk, I forgot about that, you'll have to put it in your sig. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Marco, ...I'd like to go drool all over that car if it's still around...sounds like a nice setup.
Adam
The magnetic fields set up by the inductors as current passes through them, will interfer with each other. The effect is very small though, it takes a pretty good system to be able to pick out the difference. What I would do is tilt the middle inductor on it's side and face it sideways.(towards the iron core inductor) Basically, keep the edges of the inductors as far appart as possible.
I agree with you on the caps, but the tweeter and midrange ones really should be M.I.T. polypropylenes. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Everyone: don't let the 5 watt rating of the resistors fool you, they are just fine for what they do.
Dukk, I forgot about that, you'll have to put it in your sig. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Marco, ...I'd like to go drool all over that car if it's still around...sounds like a nice setup.
Adam
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^ Yeah I agree about the inductor in concept - I've played with that myself and I couldn't hear it though, so I largely ignore it.
It would be cool to see MIT or Hovland caps in a commercial passive but that's going to make a considerable difference in cost and mylar is at least 10x better than an electrolytic. Best commercial passives I ever saw were from a KEF set - all Solen polypropylene caps and HeptaLitz inductors. They were cool.
It would be cool to see MIT or Hovland caps in a commercial passive but that's going to make a considerable difference in cost and mylar is at least 10x better than an electrolytic. Best commercial passives I ever saw were from a KEF set - all Solen polypropylene caps and HeptaLitz inductors. They were cool.
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^^I was just being a a$$.
Running MIT caps on the mids and tweeters would very expensive.
The ones I remember using in X.O.s were $50 each, and we got those in batches of 100.
To quote my old man, Solen or Axion caps are 9/10 the performance at 1/10 the cost.
Adam
Running MIT caps on the mids and tweeters would very expensive.
The ones I remember using in X.O.s were $50 each, and we got those in batches of 100.
To quote my old man, Solen or Axion caps are 9/10 the performance at 1/10 the cost.
Adam
Originally posted by PEI330Ci:
To quote my old man, Solen or Axion caps are 9/10 the performance at 1/10 the cost.
Adam
To quote my old man, Solen or Axion caps are 9/10 the performance at 1/10 the cost.
Adam
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I run CANTON speakers in my car;
RS 3.16 3-way set (6",4",1") & RST 25 tweets up front, RS 2.16 2-way set (6",1") as rear fill which I definitely use. All of them with the passive x-overs they came with. They sound great IMO and seem to have worked well for me. I would recommend them in a heartbeat.
RS 3.16 3-way set (6",4",1") & RST 25 tweets up front, RS 2.16 2-way set (6",1") as rear fill which I definitely use. All of them with the passive x-overs they came with. They sound great IMO and seem to have worked well for me. I would recommend them in a heartbeat.
