Hello,
Based on some experience with Ikea furniture I have decided to buy the LS3/5A loudspeaker kit from Falcon Acoustics. It is a fun a first project, but I have to say it is more difficult to build it than an Ikea furniture...
I have a naive question:
The speaker kit comes with good quality, buy relatively simple speaker terminals and OFC copper cables. I'm thinking to use better WBT binding posts and silver cables instead.
The additional cost is not that much considering as it is a small speaker.
Does it require to change the crossover when upgrading the internal wiring and/or speaker terminals? (if yes, then I'll probably drop the idea for now)
Based on some experience with Ikea furniture I have decided to buy the LS3/5A loudspeaker kit from Falcon Acoustics. It is a fun a first project, but I have to say it is more difficult to build it than an Ikea furniture...
I have a naive question:
The speaker kit comes with good quality, buy relatively simple speaker terminals and OFC copper cables. I'm thinking to use better WBT binding posts and silver cables instead.
The additional cost is not that much considering as it is a small speaker.
Does it require to change the crossover when upgrading the internal wiring and/or speaker terminals? (if yes, then I'll probably drop the idea for now)
silver cables are not mandatory and it may ruins the equilibrium the designer found.
I will keep the kit as it is or at least try after some breaking to putt better caps. As you start from scratch with the kit, it's agood idea to buy a 20 bucks capacimeter and measure exactly the caps capacitance value to go for that futur tweaks. Better monney spent that WBT and silver. Please use normal solder as well and not boosted with some silver in it.
I will keep the kit as it is or at least try after some breaking to putt better caps. As you start from scratch with the kit, it's agood idea to buy a 20 bucks capacimeter and measure exactly the caps capacitance value to go for that futur tweaks. Better monney spent that WBT and silver. Please use normal solder as well and not boosted with some silver in it.
Don't change the capacitors, this is an LS3/5A and the critical crossover should not be altered.
Since speaker wire is the user's choice, so can be the internal wiring from board to connector.
I did replace the steel banana sockets on my Spendor LS3/5As with solid copper 5-way
binding posts. They have worked out very well, and allow better types of connectors to be used,
such as copper ring lugs, or even bare wire.
Since speaker wire is the user's choice, so can be the internal wiring from board to connector.
I did replace the steel banana sockets on my Spendor LS3/5As with solid copper 5-way
binding posts. They have worked out very well, and allow better types of connectors to be used,
such as copper ring lugs, or even bare wire.
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This is a reasonable thing to do if you're looking to improve cosmetics, but it will have zero impact on how the speaker sounds.
Yup. I don't say to change the crossover, but all is about the cap Falcon chose. If Solen mkp, i will not arm for a better cap. If non polar lytic and specific Alcap brand, yes keep it, live with it for a time : 6 months, one year and eventually try an another cap with the same capacitance value you measured from the original cap given with the kit before soldering in serie with the tweeter - parralel cap are less critical-. Anyway no problemo with lytics. I known the Alcaps. their low loss serie, etc.
Rayma, have you heard a sonic improvment with such a short piece of coper instead the former one ? I always have a doubt for such upgrades and I use raw cable terminations and clean the termination cable once a year.
tip for the original poster : soldering should not las too much with lytics caps. work fast here.
@PB : don't get me wong but I can hear a difference with silver cable inside a crossover and most of the time not for the best for tweeters.
Rayma, have you heard a sonic improvment with such a short piece of coper instead the former one ? I always have a doubt for such upgrades and I use raw cable terminations and clean the termination cable once a year.
tip for the original poster : soldering should not las too much with lytics caps. work fast here.
@PB : don't get me wong but I can hear a difference with silver cable inside a crossover and most of the time not for the best for tweeters.
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How did the sound change when you reversed the direction of the crazy expensive silver speaker wire?
Wire material is IRRELEVANT in such a short connection and will change nothing, waste of money.
Now terminals, being a mechanical component, won´t change sound but you may get better made, more reliable ones, so that is worth a little extra efdfort.
That said, doubt originally supplied ones qualify as cheap unusable.
Now terminals, being a mechanical component, won´t change sound but you may get better made, more reliable ones, so that is worth a little extra efdfort.
That said, doubt originally supplied ones qualify as cheap unusable.
These? The Falcon Professional Speaker Terminal system Single Pair Version they look fine to me. WBT connectors are seriously overpriced
are you simply flipping the +,- connections on one? that would be a phase flip resulting in an acoustic sum that's different.
or are you indeed trading amp to speaker end connections?
This monitor due to the main speaker cone material is already relaxed... adding more smoothness and assuming the gears of the poster are good enough to hear it is certainly not the best idea.
When trying to tweak, upgrade, downgrade for some reasons, adapt the sound of a device in relation to your tastes, gears, envy... You must start from a known reference, here the kit has to be heard first sold with the genuine BOM. He eventually can construct the filter box outside with short wires to putt it at the back of the speaker...for easier futur work.
For the moment it's a ferrari sticker on a kit car discussion in order to talk about chronos...imho,YMMV. The sticker being the silver cables...bidding posts perhaps the color of the car...
When trying to tweak, upgrade, downgrade for some reasons, adapt the sound of a device in relation to your tastes, gears, envy... You must start from a known reference, here the kit has to be heard first sold with the genuine BOM. He eventually can construct the filter box outside with short wires to putt it at the back of the speaker...for easier futur work.
For the moment it's a ferrari sticker on a kit car discussion in order to talk about chronos...imho,YMMV. The sticker being the silver cables...bidding posts perhaps the color of the car...
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+1, guys from F A are serious, design loudspeakers and drivers for refurbishing. They know what they do, sympathetic and knowledgeable guys... would you add some gloss on an antic good sculpture design marble proof ? Naaaaaah!
...the only doubt I have being the tweeter serie cap if not an Alcap but a Solen...then it may worth a futur test in one year with the Solen tin foil or a jantzen cross cap or a jantzen superior...but it may also ruins the trqde offs...better monney keeped for the next diy project or help a beggar.
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