Hello. I'm new to the thread but can tell that this is the place for information. I don't mind making the speaker boxes but trying to figure out the crossovers gives me a headache!
I like some feedback from those who have built the Audax HT (Joe's design). How do the fronts - left/right - sound for two channel audio? Does the center channel really go the extra mile when watching movies?
I built the surrounds from the Audax kit for fun and liked the sound (light on bass but that's understandable). I was ready to order the left/center/right Audax kits when I came upon a kit designed by Ed Frias on AudioReview.com. It gets strong reviews. Has anyone on this forum tried these 2-ways before. And if so have you tried them as center channels?
Also, has anyone tried the Titanic 10" from partsexpress? I thought it looked pretty good.
Any feedback would be great.
Thanks
I like some feedback from those who have built the Audax HT (Joe's design). How do the fronts - left/right - sound for two channel audio? Does the center channel really go the extra mile when watching movies?
I built the surrounds from the Audax kit for fun and liked the sound (light on bass but that's understandable). I was ready to order the left/center/right Audax kits when I came upon a kit designed by Ed Frias on AudioReview.com. It gets strong reviews. Has anyone on this forum tried these 2-ways before. And if so have you tried them as center channels?
Also, has anyone tried the Titanic 10" from partsexpress? I thought it looked pretty good.
Any feedback would be great.
Thanks
I have recently built 2 pairs of these speakers and am very happy with the sound. I planning on building another as we speak for the center channel. I'm going to try and use bucking magnets for shielding. Everyone so far that has heard them commented on how clear and natural they sounded. The imaging has a great sound stage. The bass is very decent for most music (other than heavy bass and rap). I eventually plan to build a sonotube sub to take care of the bass business. Speakers shouldn't have to try and get deep bass; leave it to the specialist, the sub.
All and all you can't go wrong with these speakers.
All and all you can't go wrong with these speakers.
I too will be underway shortly on the ED Frias AR.com kit and am anxious to hear the sound. I know I will be amazed. Over the past week I have had the occasion to correspond with Mr. Ed Frias himself. First and foremost he is the most responsive and and customer oriented individual I have ever come accross. Second, he is very precise with his instruction and responses regarding the construction and feedback on these speakers. I am confident these speakers will surprise me both due to the pricetag attached to building them 300-320 USD and the fact that I am building them. It has been said that they sound just as good if not better than B&W 805's and Revel's bookshelf (both costing around 2000 USD.
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That URL bounces you back to the main page (i'll only go back there if forced to, way too slow & noisy). But i did some digging around and found it.
The Peerless drivers look good, the XO is fairly simple (a good thing IMO), but not having heard them those are only generalizations.
If you are looking at those, you should also be looking at John K's LS3/5a inspired stand-mounter. It is an excellent performing piece of kit. It won't move quite as much air in the bottom, but is superb everywhere else. If you are using them in an HT you have a sub for the low stuff anyway. (And i was & still am a big fan of the excellent mini-monitor coupled with active bass units -- preferably stereo)
Anyone going ahead with them, do let us know how they perform.
dave
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That URL bounces you back to the main page (i'll only go back there if forced to, way too slow & noisy). But i did some digging around and found it.
The Peerless drivers look good, the XO is fairly simple (a good thing IMO), but not having heard them those are only generalizations.
If you are looking at those, you should also be looking at John K's LS3/5a inspired stand-mounter. It is an excellent performing piece of kit. It won't move quite as much air in the bottom, but is superb everywhere else. If you are using them in an HT you have a sub for the low stuff anyway. (And i was & still am a big fan of the excellent mini-monitor coupled with active bass units -- preferably stereo)
Anyone going ahead with them, do let us know how they perform.
dave
Hi folks
The Ed Frias speakers look like they might be fun
Dave, I have never been a fan of the LS3/5a, they were great for speech radio such as BBC Radio 4 or the World Service, (I remember listening to the presenter, Brian Perkins on an ex BBC pair, driven by a Troughline and a Quad amp, truly the voice of God!) but lost it completely on music . Do John K's improve upon this at all?
I have built the Audax Centre speakers though, and you won't go far wrong with them as a first attempt, they are fairly neutral, but with a good grasp of speech, and they go low enough to integrate well with most LR speakers. Treble is a teeny bit soft though, and I will probably replace the tweeter with an Audax HD3P gold dome at some point, ( just so they match my LR setup).
Good Luck
The Ed Frias speakers look like they might be fun
Dave, I have never been a fan of the LS3/5a, they were great for speech radio such as BBC Radio 4 or the World Service, (I remember listening to the presenter, Brian Perkins on an ex BBC pair, driven by a Troughline and a Quad amp, truly the voice of God!) but lost it completely on music
. Do John K's improve upon this at all?I have built the Audax Centre speakers though, and you won't go far wrong with them as a first attempt, they are fairly neutral, but with a good grasp of speech, and they go low enough to integrate well with most LR speakers. Treble is a teeny bit soft though, and I will probably replace the tweeter with an Audax HD3P gold dome at some point, ( just so they match my LR setup).
Good Luck
pinkmouse said:I have never been a fan of the LS3/5a, they were great for speech radio such as BBC Radio 4 or the World Service, (I remember listening to the presenter, Brian Perkins on an ex BBC pair, driven by a Troughline and a Quad amp, truly the voice of God!) but lost it completely on music
The LS3/5A was one of those love-hate relations, in many ways like the Quad 57. By themselves they did some things really well, but were lacking just enuff that you couldn't live with them for long. I think i owned a pair but had lots of opportunity to listen to them (at home, at clients, and in the shop) because we were a dealer. Like most speakers of its class a dramatic improvement was wrought be adding a pr of woofers. From these experiences came my feeling that the biggest benefit of adding a woofer was improved midrange.
John's speakers are a bit more dynamic, but not quite as BBC neutral. Calling them LS3/5A clones is VERY misleading, LS3/5A inspired is much more like it.
The LS3/5A inspired things like the Fried H, and a set of bi-amped MTM isobarics i built using 4 B110s & the T27s that i happily lived with for a number of years.
dave
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