Did these a couple of years ago. They are really good for music. They are great for movies as well. No surround.....Just right and left and about 700 watts per of clean power. They are active 3-way. Analog DBX crossovers and Adcom amps. I have plans for a conversion to active 4-way. All analog Ashly parametric EQ and Ashly 4 way crossover. Just haven't gotten around to it.
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NICE! Recently went active with BBE; chosen for rudimentary bass/treble controls and horn eq- I find there's barely enough eq with these- how do you like the Ashley equalizer?
That's a coax mid/ treble I guess? Are there options for different tweeters in it?
I haven't had a chance to run either of the Ahsly pieces yet. I will when I decide on a mid-bass driver to go with what I have. Once I do that I will cut new baffles and make the loudspeakers a 4-way design. I have everything else, I am just unsure on the choice of a mid-bass driver. I have a pair of Anarchy 6.5in drivers but I am not sure weather I should go with those or move to an 8in driver like some other designs I have seen. I will probably try the Anarchy's first.
The coax driver is a Seas h653. I mounted the sister tweeter to the back axially. Not sure if mounting it that way makes any difference but I thought it was as good an idea as any so I that is how I did it. Those Seas Coax drivers have taken a lot of flack for bad design. Mostly the lip around the tweeter and the dip in the response @ around 3.5K. I guess its about the implementation because damn if I can hear it. They sound good to me.
Matthew
Suddenly my speakers look too big🙁
Those are really nice. Surely real glass (EDIT;I see now from your thread it is lexan), and the wood is great.
Those are really nice. Surely real glass (EDIT;I see now from your thread it is lexan), and the wood is great.
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Those look spectacular!! Nice going there! Noting your Username... You obviously have artistic talent...something a lot of us, unfortunately, don't have.
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Thank you for the kind words.
I was going to build a more standard "box" speaker but my wife changed my mind. I'm glad she did. The whole family is enjoying them as i write this. I still have some work to do on the crossover, but only after everything breaks in.
Twin 12's, flat honeycomb neodimium driver and a neodimium ribbon driver.
Hand made pretty slowly, but now operational and they sing just beautiful.
Will be supported by a 16 Hz fs, 20 Hz fb bass reflex cabinets.
I wasn't gong to listen to them without the bass cabinets, but my curiosity was too big... They actually reach 30 Hz effortlessly, only the peak spl is somewhat limited with the 12's working this low, but there is enough headroom for enjoing music like this.
Designed with MJK's Mathcad 3 drivers acive sheet.
http://www.quarter-wave.com
Hand made pretty slowly, but now operational and they sing just beautiful.
Will be supported by a 16 Hz fs, 20 Hz fb bass reflex cabinets.
I wasn't gong to listen to them without the bass cabinets, but my curiosity was too big... They actually reach 30 Hz effortlessly, only the peak spl is somewhat limited with the 12's working this low, but there is enough headroom for enjoing music like this.
Designed with MJK's Mathcad 3 drivers acive sheet.
http://www.quarter-wave.com
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Open baffle with Peerless woofer/mid and Scan-speak tweeter SLS268/HDS152FiberGlass/DX25
Simple mount on a simple board (120x40cm)
Front
Rear
On axis response curve (~82dB/2.83V)
Simple mount on a simple board (120x40cm)
Front
Rear
On axis response curve (~82dB/2.83V)
Open baffle with Peerless woofer/mid and Scan-speak tweeter SLS268/HDS152FiberGlass/DX25
Simple mount on a simple board (120x40cm)
On axis response curve (~82dB/2.83V)
Really impressive for being all passive. Could you publish some crossover details?
Yes but values will be never published. Crossover frequencies are 400Hz LR2 and 2500Hz LR4.
