That is not how think about what I'm doing. I'm very familiar with the tune and as I've said the upper piano notes are a bit bright for me. So I'm using a resistor to attenuate the upper notes coming throught the mid range filter. I think of this as similar to using a resistor to attenuate a upper notes in a tweeter.
Tuning by ear is a great approach. Not everyone can do that. The sound of capacitors can shift as they "break in".
You may want to give them some time before forming an opinion or at least revist and reevaluate later on.
You may want to give them some time before forming an opinion or at least revist and reevaluate later on.
C1, C2 and C4 have at least six months of use. Only C3 is new. Right now I'm expirementing chaining different resistors in series and don't plan on ordering the final resistors for another two weeks. I'm playing with R1 and R3
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Tuning by ear is something I do in addition to everything that is measurement based. There are different reasons this is a good thing, one is that recorded material varies a little.
This is not something that is meant to affect the way the two ways cross, but it is meant to affect the whole system. For this reason it is more difficult to do at the crossover if you want to make sure you don't change the crossover between the drivers.. if that is already correct. So you can do it that way if you want but another way is to use an equaliser. You can either use an equaliser to find your preferred settings, then add them into the crossover.. or you can use it all the time.
This is not something that is meant to affect the way the two ways cross, but it is meant to affect the whole system. For this reason it is more difficult to do at the crossover if you want to make sure you don't change the crossover between the drivers.. if that is already correct. So you can do it that way if you want but another way is to use an equaliser. You can either use an equaliser to find your preferred settings, then add them into the crossover.. or you can use it all the time.
Yes equalisers are a great tool with much power. But having a short signal path without going through many circuit stages is a very important goal toward best audio quality. Having an equalizer on an insert point that you can get in and out of circuit at the touch of a button will help you find your way with crossover adjustments to tune to you liking. The goal is to have the result that you like without the equalizer in the circuit.