Wedgie Crossover

mkane · « **Reply #20 on:** 12 Jan 2019, 10:55 pm »

Thanks, fellas. Had company and got sidetracked. Been final sanding wedgies getting ready for epoxy or drivers whichever comes first. I need a bigger piece of wood for the crossovers so it explains itself a bit more.

mkane · « **Reply #21 on:** 13 Jan 2019, 07:57 pm »

Is this a workable setup? thx

Danny Richie · « **Reply #22 on:** 13 Jan 2019, 08:10 pm »

Quote from: mkane on 13 Jan 2019, 07:57 pm

Is this a workable setup? thx

Oh, no, no, no... don't do that. You just degraded the signal so badly with all of those connectors that you might as well have just put the cheap budget parts in there. Get rid of all of that. Go to this thread and follow the example of how to assemble them: https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=83325.0

mkane · « **Reply #23 on:** 13 Jan 2019, 08:21 pm »

figured as much. thanks

mkane · « **Reply #24 on:** 13 Jan 2019, 09:14 pm »

keep it simple stupid

Danny Richie · « **Reply #25 on:** 13 Jan 2019, 10:22 pm »

Looks correct.

And use the supplied wire. It is four 9's pure Copper that is solid core and jacketed in polyethylene. It's really good.

mkane · « **Reply #26 on:** 13 Jan 2019, 11:11 pm »

thanks and wired

Danny Richie · « **Reply #27 on:** 14 Jan 2019, 02:14 pm »

That will work.

mkane · « **Reply #28 on:** 14 Jan 2019, 05:09 pm »

Excellent. Low-level imaging is excellent and my preference volume wise. Have 1 album side played so far. Cardinal sin to put these together but until I rip the carpet out of our hobby room so I can epoxy these inside, no harm. Cudos Danny, WAF factor very high. Her first words, awesome.

BTW, I tweaked the frame installing the first 3" woofer not having it seated properly. I'll be needing a replacement when we return.

mkane · « **Reply #29 on:** 26 Jan 2019, 05:20 pm »

Thoughts on copper foil inductors? thx

Danny Richie · « **Reply #30 on:** 26 Jan 2019, 05:27 pm »

Quote from: mkane on 26 Jan 2019, 05:20 pm

Thoughts on copper foil inductors? thx

Subtle improvement in the mid-range easily noticed on high end gear, and not so much with mid-fi level or entry level gear.

mkane · « **Reply #31 on:** 26 Jan 2019, 08:08 pm »

Thanks. I left the first crossovers intact with the original parts just in case, and through this together with new parts. Nothing boutique, and there is a noticeable difference. I consider my gear a step above mid fi, using a HK Citation II on the Wedgies, Herron phono pre/SUT and various decks/cartridges.

Danny Richie · « **Reply #32 on:** 26 Jan 2019, 11:29 pm »

Quote from: mkane on 26 Jan 2019, 08:08 pm

Thanks. I left the first crossovers intact with the original parts just in case, and through this together with new parts. Nothing boutique, and there is a noticeable difference. I consider my gear a step above mid fi, using a HK Citation II on the Wedgies, Herron phono pre/SUT and various decks/cartridges.

The foil inductors are nice, but the Sonicaps on the original crossover are much higher quality than the Erse caps.

mkane · « **Reply #33 on:** 27 Jan 2019, 01:19 am »

Danny, I'll make the switch when I take these apart for finishing. thanks

mlundy57 · « **Reply #34 on:** 27 Jan 2019, 01:46 am »

Add some Platinum by-pass caps to the Sonicaps. At first I didn’t use them but now I put them on all my speakers, including the Wedgies

mkane · « **Reply #35 on:** 27 Jan 2019, 01:51 am »

tweeters & mid's? Any particular size? http://www.soniccraft.com/index.php/sonicap-platinum-c-301_49_52

mlundy57 · « **Reply #36 on:** 27 Jan 2019, 02:02 am »

Danny recommends Platinums in the tweeter circuit and Gen IIs in the Woofer circuit. I put Platinums in both but then I don’t always listen🙂

PM Danny and he will tell the values you need for each circuit

Mike

mkane · « **Reply #37 on:** 27 Jan 2019, 04:29 pm »

My search revealed that 1/100th of the original value is a good starting point and quality should be one up.

Captainhemo · « **Reply #38 on:** 27 Jan 2019, 05:57 pm »

I use the Gortz Alpha Core foil inductors on the networks now, to me they are a relatively inexpensive upgrade.
We too have been using the Sonicap Platinums as bypass caps on the high pass (tweeter) cap, if you can get them (might be sold out of the .022's), a .022 or .047 uF should work fine
Have also tried the Jupiter Copper foils of the same value in the same position but prefer the Platinums there.
Have been using .1uF Jupiter Coppers on the mjdrange leg. the gen II's do work well here as well.
Another very inexpensive cap I've tried on the midrange cap is the ishay Roderstein . I actually really like these, don't let the cheap price fool you. they do have short leads , usually have to add length to reach around a "large" cap. I keep meaning to try them as bypass's on the high pass cap as well, just haven't done it.

You can get the Sonicaps, Jupiters and gortz inductors through Danny

jay

mkane · « **Reply #39 on:** 27 Jan 2019, 06:53 pm »

Thanks guys. I have a pair of Jupiter .022 uf's