Markaudio. Updates on driver lines?

One member here with micro-towers switched from EL70s to Pluvia 7.2s successfully.

Yes, I did! Actually, 2 of us did it. @von Ah did it too. 😎

Zero regrets. The Pluvia 7.2 has all the shockingly good bass (for a 4") and silky-but-present midrange of the EL70, but much, much better treble. The T/S parameters and dimensions are close enough to EL70 that they are virtually drop-in replacements. Mounting screw pattern is different and stuffing may need to be adjusted (not in my case). One caveat; if you have internal braces that butt right up to the back of your EL70, you will need to shim a couple or 3 mm under the rim of the P7.2 (or shave the brace down somehow) because they are slightly deeper than EL70. For new projects, none of this applies, of course! 🙂
 
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ndeed, I also switched from EL70 to P7HD in my microtowers
I can't recall whether you went with series or parallel wiring. Originally I went with series because that's how I had the EL70s wired. However, recently I reconfigured to parallel and added a Zobel while I was at it. The speakers sound better this way. I highly recommend it. Both my class D amp and my SET have no issues with this setup. Quite the opposite.
 
I can't recall whether you went with series or parallel wiring. Originally I went with series because that's how I had the EL70s wired. However, recently I reconfigured to parallel and added a Zobel while I was at it. The speakers sound better this way. I highly recommend it. Both my class D amp and my SET have no issues with this setup. Quite the opposite.
Do you mind sharing the Zobel schematic that you used?
 
Do you mind sharing the Zobel schematic that you used?
Sure!

It took me a whole thread to figure out (with the generous help of others), but this is what I ended up with https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...-and-driver-rewire-puzzle.406547/post-7534837

As you can see, it works out to a simple 4-ish uF and 4-ish ohms. The exact values are not critical. The exact values for me were determined by available components, which came close enough to calculations. 2 parallel 2.2uF caps (for 4.4uF) and 2 parallel 8R2 (for 4R1). For each pair of drivers, of course. Caps must be bi-polar/non-polar.
 
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