Yes, it is 12” with a 12” passive radiator. The amp is Eric’s in the vendors bazaar section. They are “ fully discrete delta sigma amps” his other amps are 120watt stereo I have 3 of them doing Roon endpoint duty ( none in the bathroom yet). This one is a new one he is offering, I can’t build anything at their price point. I will use it with the XSD until I build the Wolverine.
Super job WW! Congrats.
I love the cloth grill and the outrigger feet look great.
I see you have the full XRK setup with SLB in its one case and dual Alpha Nirvana monoblocks as well. 🙂
I love the cloth grill and the outrigger feet look great.
I see you have the full XRK setup with SLB in its one case and dual Alpha Nirvana monoblocks as well. 🙂
Are there any details on how you did the grill? Very nice appearance, I hadnt even considered a grill. Nice look and solves a few problems.
Thanks all they came out great, grills are 3/8 plywood, stretch cloth on freezer and hold with duct tape and use contact cement.I used magnets to hold them on. One tip I learned when you spray contact cement on plywood frame tape the inside of the cutout. They sound great on the Alpha Nirvana, as they break in the peak around 2K slowly drops out ( 3rd full range speaker for some reason they all had it). Great bass no longer need subwoofer. No longer narrow sweet spot in the room, you can really tell a lot more about how material is recorded nice detail.
Bill
Bill
I will get out measurement Mike and test from the listening position. One nice thing about Roon It has built in parametric equalizer built in. I have a mini DSP with room correction software but I really feel while it fixes some things it degrades others, I was also using it for the sub out .
Bill
Bill
The grills do look great, feet as well, makes them look like a high end speaker, which they are acoustically of course!
I do prefer no grills for critical listening and I have made grills out of many things and normally do not use them unless grandkids coming over, etc....
Lucky for me, my wife loves great sound enough that she is fine with no grills or whatever design I want to build🙂
I do prefer no grills for critical listening and I have made grills out of many things and normally do not use them unless grandkids coming over, etc....
Lucky for me, my wife loves great sound enough that she is fine with no grills or whatever design I want to build🙂
I love the report about not needing subs as that is why I am doing 8x8 version hoping to achieve it, looks like I might have more than needed🙂
Being full time in an RV that I added 1.5 ft to and completely different layout than it had these might not work out but sure going to give it my best effort. I have fully upgraded Edgarhorn Slimlines (subs required) to try as well which I doubt will work but Dr Edgar was my friend so have to try them at least. I still might have to try something entirely different but always loved alternative designs to bass reflex, ported, etc...I will likely test the SLOB section under the Slimeline horns with flushed in super tweeters as well, just might work.
I do like your speakers and grills, very much so!
Being full time in an RV that I added 1.5 ft to and completely different layout than it had these might not work out but sure going to give it my best effort. I have fully upgraded Edgarhorn Slimlines (subs required) to try as well which I doubt will work but Dr Edgar was my friend so have to try them at least. I still might have to try something entirely different but always loved alternative designs to bass reflex, ported, etc...I will likely test the SLOB section under the Slimeline horns with flushed in super tweeters as well, just might work.
I do like your speakers and grills, very much so!
Been getting mine up and running. I concur with WW on comments. Soundstage and imaging is very deep and detailed. Bass is definitely very tight, snappy, and strong. Mid and highs were muted for me in beginning. I agree that maybe the PRV needs some breaking in. Also, the amp I started with was not well suited (SissySit). I moved up to Aleph 30 which improved, and then to a MAC receiver @ 65wpc. This made a huge improvement in the dynamics of the speaker, and now the mids and highs are at their proper level. I've also got an XA252 on my amp list next so l am looking forward to hearing that combo.
A 150W per channel amp is definitely helpful. The 4ohm load on the woofers needs a good amp to drive. Class D such as TPA3255 works great.
That is the amp I am now building. ZM's package is making it's way here, as are power supply caps. Transformers, case and outputs here already. I think it will be perfect amp for these speakers.
Russellc
Wow, XA252 has 29 to 31 actives! Most Pass Lab forum amps are like 6 actives. How many watts is it capable of and what kind of impedance can it drive? Ideally 4ohm capable is needed for XSD.