The speaker cabinets were shipped out to me in a very timely fashion,
Mike packed them well and even bagged them up in a cloth cover.
I spent quite a bit of time debating what wire to use internally. I finally decided to run the Neotech UPOCC Copper litz wire offered by ZenWave Audio.
I drove up to Lafayette to meet with Dave and pick up the wire. I used the 14 awg for the woofers and 20 awg for tweeter.
I decided to go with the Neotech because it was so flexible and well damped with the cotton insulation. I was concerned that any solid core and Teflon insulated wire would transmit vibrations. This has been a problem with some other speaker builds I have done. I believe it causes a blurring of imaging and a reduction in transients. I ran the wire between the seams in the NoRez pieces that Mike installed.
I built the crossovers on two separate boards just sort of kludged together for now.
After all the drivers, wiring and crossover components break in, I plan to try out different caps, inductors and resistors to see what I like the sound of best in my room and with the gear I am using. I do have some measurement gear that I will be using to fine tune everything. For now, I used all Sonicaps with Gen 2 bypasses. AlphaCore foil inductors and Mills resistors.
The wire going from the high pass network is a combo of Neotech UPOCC solid core in Teflon and the copper cored silver I used in the BOLDER Cable M-80 cable. The low pass cable is a dual star quad made from 14 awg stranded and 18 awg solid core copper cored silver. The runs from the amp to the crossovers are separate. The high pass sections gets a star quad 14awg and the low pass a modified dual star quad with an extra couple of runs of Cardas solid core 20 awg copper.
All in all, these sound VERY good. Fantastic imaging. For now I have them mounted on a pair of Sound Anchor 24" speaker stands with Herbies Square dots between the cabinets and the stand.
Thanks again to Mike for the great communication and build quality of the cabinets.
