Advice Wilmslow Audio Forte crossovers

[RogerLancaster]

Hi all

I would be really grateful if anyone good let me have any thoughts about Wilmslow Audio crossovers generally and if anyone has any specific experience of the Forte speakers.

I have recently rebuilt a pair of Wilmslow Audio Forte speakers and to my ears they dont sound optimised, I dont feel the bass really keeps up with the midd and treble and (compared to other commercial speakers) are a little fatiguing at anything above moderate volume. With a 10'' bass driver, 50l cabinet and the well regarded ATC midd and Seas Excel treble they should perform much better.

When I rebuilt the speakers I added a small addtional cross brace and 'deadsheet' panels to all internal surfaces and reinserted the acoustic foam panels. I dont think this would substantially alter the internal volume or cabinet behaviour (other than reducing cabinet resonnance which was the goal)

My instinct is that it could be more of a crossover issue. The crossover design looks to be quite simple with only capacitors and inductors and no resistors. I emailed Wimslow and asked how driver SPL were balanced and if there was any baffle loss compensation and was told that these were achieved throught the inductor and capacitor values used int he design. I wasnt aware that this is possible witout resistors / padding but woudl welcome any thoughts.

The drivers are:
Treble: Seas T25CF-002 Millennium
Midrange: ATC SM75-150
Bass: Scan-speak 25w8565-01