My new project dubbed the monolith (sorry, no pics yet, to be posted tomorrow!) was totally finished today, in that the drivers, ports, electronics, etc, were put together.
These are the best sounding loudspeakers I have ever heard. The closest I have heard is some Apogee electrostats. I am really impressed. I think a lot of it has to do with the active crossover.
However, the tweeter (Fountek JP3 Ribbon), is a very nice, very fast, very revealing tweeter, but I put in some pop music in it (Green Day - American Idiot), and it sounded very very harsh. I think that the recording engineers must be listening to some cheap boom boxes when they mix this stuff.
While, I thought the bass might be a bit muddy because I went for a ported design (25hz, dual 3" flared ports), however I found it to be very quick and articulate (bad group delay does not happen till below 35hz, and at that point, very little music I listen to exists). The Dayton Reference series of woofers are very nice for the money.
The midrange, well I notice really notice it. I think that is a great compliment, really, because it does not draw attention to itself, but if it was missing the entire project would just be without most of the music (500-4000hz). It's a Vifa PL11WG, BTW.
I am not saying this is the best project ever, because I haven't heard a lot of commerical loudspeakers, but I can say that it blows the hell off of anything I have heard, and my RTA says it's withen +/- 8db in room response, and I haven't even done digital room correction yet, which should make it even better.
If anyone is interested, I might make a website about them with my building instructions, and some in construction pics, although.... it might not be good to show all of the messed up parts of it....
These are the best sounding loudspeakers I have ever heard. The closest I have heard is some Apogee electrostats. I am really impressed. I think a lot of it has to do with the active crossover.
However, the tweeter (Fountek JP3 Ribbon), is a very nice, very fast, very revealing tweeter, but I put in some pop music in it (Green Day - American Idiot), and it sounded very very harsh. I think that the recording engineers must be listening to some cheap boom boxes when they mix this stuff.
While, I thought the bass might be a bit muddy because I went for a ported design (25hz, dual 3" flared ports), however I found it to be very quick and articulate (bad group delay does not happen till below 35hz, and at that point, very little music I listen to exists). The Dayton Reference series of woofers are very nice for the money.
The midrange, well I notice really notice it. I think that is a great compliment, really, because it does not draw attention to itself, but if it was missing the entire project would just be without most of the music (500-4000hz). It's a Vifa PL11WG, BTW.
I am not saying this is the best project ever, because I haven't heard a lot of commerical loudspeakers, but I can say that it blows the hell off of anything I have heard, and my RTA says it's withen +/- 8db in room response, and I haven't even done digital room correction yet, which should make it even better.
If anyone is interested, I might make a website about them with my building instructions, and some in construction pics, although.... it might not be good to show all of the messed up parts of it....
