Here is Stereophile review of monsoon fpf-1000 floorstanding speakers. Interestingly monsoon selected 5kHz for crossover. But had terrible suckout in that region. Wonder if they got tweeter polarity wrong.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/monsoon-audio-fpf-1000-loudspeaker-measurements
https://www.stereophile.com/content/monsoon-audio-fpf-1000-loudspeaker-measurements
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Now to find suitable midbass to cover 150 to ~500 Hz. This is heading to 4way system. Just like I did with previous planars.
I worked a little on midbass crossover, since its raining. Got second order working ok. This is how it looks with 150Hz high pass by simple active crossover and 300Hz low pass.
Just to bridge 15" woofer to the planar mids.
And the response of midbasses with planars
Just to bridge 15" woofer to the planar mids.
And the response of midbasses with planars
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i recently came across monsoon pc speakers, i think they are either mh500/700 its just the speakers with small din 4 connectors like old s-vhs connectors i presume when the connetors are cut off i would only need to connect 2 of the four wires to an amp to run them?
IIRC both the 2 way MH500 statelites anf the 700 panels had RCAs on the end of their cables. The controller had a multipin connector. Pictures?
dave
dave
No, mh500 have one pair of wires for planar tweeter, one pair for small 3" junky fullrange. I have seen no crossover inside the satelite speakers. Must be inside the controller.
If you want to use planar and mid, you need to use four wires, or implement crossover, then from crossover you can run one pair of wires to the amp.
Crossover point is 1500Hz.
Too low in my opinion. But poor mid is much worse, so it does not matter after all.
I disassembled many of these and every one had a passive XO (cap+inductor). no pics of one, there are probably still some downstairs somewhere.
Pics of the rest:
dave
thats what i had assumed as well but to my untrained eye they look like svhs connectors
i just took a gamble on this thinking i could wire them up to a usb dac with hypex amp along with a old small m&k subwoofer i had in storage
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so if i cut the wires which how do i work out which wires belong to the plana and fullrage? would i be ok combing each of the positive cables and negatives to go into the amp?
well i cut the connector off i got 1 red, 1 green, 1 black and 1 white. from trial and error red and green are planar not sure which one counts as black and red on my amp sockets and the little speaker is black and white. these speakers were an impulse buy for my pc but sound decent
I had few pairs of mh500. I disposed of little fulrange.
I paired two and two planar tweeters, as they are close to ~3 ohm, and i do not like low impedance.
Planar tweeters measure ok and have nice extended highs.
Deserve better mid.
Enjoy.
I paired two and two planar tweeters, as they are close to ~3 ohm, and i do not like low impedance.
Planar tweeters measure ok and have nice extended highs.
Deserve better mid.
Enjoy.
If you decide to do something better with those, remove the monsoon logo, its just glued with hot glue. There is one screw under. This holds entire metal grill. However, they use sticky stuff all around, you need to use some force to remove it.
Then you are facing the drivers, each held in place by four screws.
Then you are facing the drivers, each held in place by four screws.