I’ve been playing with Wavecor WF160WA02s in various configurations for several years, while liking their sound however, never had great success in getting them to play really solid low lows. I wanted to do something with them, and recently decided that, as my HF hearing deteriorates (I’m in my late 60s), an MTM might give a better presentation for a deaf old coot…..
I had on old pair of 20L boxes which were suitable after some work with table saw & router, and Peerless XT25SC90-04 tweeters available (suitably small & perfect sensitivity), so after the requisite amount of caffeine, came up with these, using a Simple LR2 xover (2mH & 4uF on the series woofers, 11.3uF & 0.68mH on the tweeters).
The result: gave the desired forward projection, with a clean, clear, uncoloured & detailed sound. The sealed boxes modelled an F3 of ~80Hz, but I was impressed by the low mid-bass.
My next challenge is to decide what woofers to pair them with, currently sitting on top of SEAS CA18RLY ( a gem of a speaker), but will probably go with a pair of 6” Jaycar Polypropylene woofers (from the days when they sold good drivers) which I know could do well. Also looking at the SB 6” & 8” PFC woofers, but spending $$ is against my wont, specially when I have so many unused drivers in the workshop...
I had on old pair of 20L boxes which were suitable after some work with table saw & router, and Peerless XT25SC90-04 tweeters available (suitably small & perfect sensitivity), so after the requisite amount of caffeine, came up with these, using a Simple LR2 xover (2mH & 4uF on the series woofers, 11.3uF & 0.68mH on the tweeters).
The result: gave the desired forward projection, with a clean, clear, uncoloured & detailed sound. The sealed boxes modelled an F3 of ~80Hz, but I was impressed by the low mid-bass.
My next challenge is to decide what woofers to pair them with, currently sitting on top of SEAS CA18RLY ( a gem of a speaker), but will probably go with a pair of 6” Jaycar Polypropylene woofers (from the days when they sold good drivers) which I know could do well. Also looking at the SB 6” & 8” PFC woofers, but spending $$ is against my wont, specially when I have so many unused drivers in the workshop...
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Hi Moondog, no thanks, I'm drowning in drivers at the moment... With the warming weather everybody's clearing out their garages, so I've collected a lot of roadkill... some good ones among them too... Sony, Yamaha.... but I need to restain myself and get on with a bunch of half-finished projects - repairing an acoustic guitar; an old Sonab amp which I love but has started making protesting noises, finish the amp boards I bought from AKSA about 10 years ago, rebuild the garden shed which is falling down....
Here are the Jaycar woofers (CW2108), hung off the MTMs as a .5 way with 1.2 mH (need better inductors than those found in my junk box:
Bass guitar sounds immense, and Kick drum is suitably nad-rattling,
tested with Tool, Ningen Isu, Black Sabbath, & most importantly they passed the Rammstein test (very complex music which a lesser system can't really do.
Happy endings!
Bass guitar sounds immense, and Kick drum is suitably nad-rattling,
tested with Tool, Ningen Isu, Black Sabbath, & most importantly they passed the Rammstein test (very complex music which a lesser system can't really do.
Happy endings!
