Hi Danny,
Your forum has a lot of great information. Thanks for sharing your expertise and step-by-step assembly skills.
I have a general question regarding selecting crossover component quality. If this topic has already been addressed elsewhere, just point me in that direction.
My inquiry is, how do you prioritize which crossover components to upgrade, and to what level?
I have Harbeth speakers and after looking into the xover, I see what appears to be a lot of room for improvements. All polyester caps, iron core inductors, cheesy sand cast resistors all on a large printed circuit board. I was considering doing some upgrades and just wondering where best to prioritize time and funds$.
I'll skip past resistors, as I am completely sold on the Mills resistors and understand the benefits over generic sand cast wire wound low tolerance stuff.
Regarding inductors/coils, often times I see magnetic core, air core, and foil inductors. It appears that iron core might be analogous to electrolytic caps (high values for lowest cost). Is the foil inductor considered the ideal solution if affordable? Would you use the best quality at a tweeter as opposed to a midrange or woofer?
For caps, these are typically the most expensive for better materials, tolerance and quality. Is it mostly a balancing act of size/mF value with budget and quality (say starting with a minimum Solen/Erse metalized polypro and going up to Sonicap, teflon, Jupiter exotics at most critical locations). Skip electrolytics if at all possible?
My notion is parts in series are more audible than those in parallel.
In a 3-way(or more) driver speaker, is the priority level the highest for the tweeter? then midrange? woofer last? Or midrange (vocal range) the most critical?
Thanks
Kenreau