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I'm using an old CABRE AS45 two way active crossover.It uses (i'm quoting the booklet) "1% high precision metal film resistors, high stability and great precision 2% capacitors, j-fet input opamps with high slew-rate and low noise"
It does, however, bring a certain roughness to the treble, some kind of "dirtyness" that's very obvious on compression drivers.
It sounds a bit like my REVOX B226 did before I recapped it and swapped the old opamps for LM4562.
The "magical" recipe on the B226 was: Nichicon KW caps in the PSU, Elna Silmic II everywhere else, LM4562 in gold-plated sockets with local decoupling added close to the legs (replacing NE5532).
These small mods really made a night and day difference!
Checking the guts of the CABRE AS45 I can already see that:- the lytics are nothing special (Nippon Chemicon SM series) and might be old (I bought this device second-hand and while they still produce it, it dates from the eighties);
- the opamps are TL082
I guess a recap with Elna Silmic II or Nichicon Muse cannot hurt anything, but would I get improvements by changing the four TL082 for LM4562? My intuition says yes, but desoldering opamps and installing sockets + possibly local decoupling isn't as straightforward as changing a few caps.
Anybody has any opinion regarding the TL082 opamp?
Edits: 10/13/16 10/13/16
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Topic - Upgrading the CABRE AS45 active crossover - KanedaK 06:02:48 10/13/16 (7)
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- RE: Upgrading the CABRE AS45 active crossover - reuben 06:36:03 10/13/16 (2)
- RE: Upgrading the CABRE AS45 active crossover - KanedaK 02:53:17 10/14/16 (1)
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