cal3713
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| Higher Efficiency Speakers I'm intrigued by those Pure Audio Project sets. Even that big Quintet with 4 15" woofers is under $10k... and decent at 96db sensitivity. | |
| Tweeter Capacitor Upgrade (Coincident PREs) Talked me into it Erik. Also gives me a chance to play some more in the future if I decide to buy some Jupiters or Duelunds. | |
| Tweeter Capacitor Upgrade (Coincident PREs) Not so much worried about the capacitors as the accutons... they have such tiny little tabs, so little room for heatsinks. | |
| Tweeter Capacitor Upgrade (Coincident PREs) Ha. I added them to my cart but didn't buy yet. Very torn about the process. I suppose experimenting isn't too bad, especially at $55 a cap for the CMRs. I just worry that I'll fry my tweeters if I play around too much. Would much rather sold... | |
| Tweeter Capacitor Upgrade (Coincident PREs) Dammit. The Jupiters are sold out at both PartsConnexiion and SonicCraft. PC does have the Duelund RS Copper Foil caps, but I think you all talked me into the Jupiters... | |
| Tweeter Capacitor Upgrade (Coincident PREs) At this time, I am not really inclined to do anything besides replace the tweeter capacitor, but clearly there's a lot to think about there. I think improvement there is highly likely, but I'm a little less confident about the wiring/inductor/pos... | |
| Tweeter Capacitor Upgrade (Coincident PREs) Thanks again for all the conversation... All very useful. | |
| Tweeter Capacitor Upgrade (Coincident PREs) @audioman58 And fortunately there's nothing else really to change. The PREs only have that one 4.7uF capacitor on the tweeter. The midrange is directly wired to the binding posts and the the bass just has a single inductor coil. | |
| Tweeter Capacitor Upgrade (Coincident PREs) Thanks for the recommendations everyone.@justanotherhifiguy Isreal states that they use Mundorf in current models of the PRE, but my pair (I purchased used) just have Solens. The frankenstein amps also have solens throughout... although to be hon... | |
| Tweeter Capacitor Upgrade (Coincident PREs) Thanks Erik. Also, just to be doubly sure. I don't need to worry about voltage rating as long as I meet or exceed the original value (100V), right? | |
| Pass labs xa25 amp and BW 804 d3? @almarg Thanks al. Always happy to see one of your posts in a thread, and glad you're enjoying the pass. 5 years ago I had an xa30.5 that I loved and have considered using the new model on my coincident PREs (in liu of the 300b Frankenstein's). I... | |
| If you love SET amplifiers, boy do I have speaker for you. Adding to my list of threads for future reference. | |
| Am I the only one that finds the "Round thumbnail frames" irritating on classifieds? I hate it. | |
| Pass labs xa25 amp and BW 804 d3? @almarg Didn't know you'd switched to this amplifier. Are you subbing out with the VAC, or have you switched completely to the XA-25? | |
| Reasonable RCA Connectors? Thanks folks... and happy to continue to take any thoughts. |