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In Reply to: RE: The Story of a 0.01 Ohm Resistor posted by jackwong96 on November 17, 2011 at 09:31:21
I wonder if I have the patience to do this ... but i have no doubt that is absolutely true.
What order of crossover were you tuning? One could see the higher the order the more importance this tuning would have. My guess is that the first order would be less critical but would still need a critical balance for best performance.
All is compromised with our humble hobby - with this critical tuning requiring all of those resistors and requisite solder joints there is a concern that something ELSE is lost. Different ears have different sensitivities; we can't have it all ...
I am now thinking: how to use this method?
Thanks,
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Not only patience. In order to succeed, apart from basic knowledge you will also need a keen interest in DIY and most importantly faith.
I used a mixed combination from 1st order to 3rd order in different projects.
".....My guess is that the first order would be less critical but would still need a critical balance for best performance."
The latter half is right. My experience was that the tuning was irrespective of whatever order/combination of crossover network used, the order determine the steepness of the slope at crossover points, but it has nothing to do with leveling the speaker units. They all need critical balance.
".....tuning requiring all of those resistors and requisite solder joints there is a concern that something ELSE is lost."
I think I gained everything I wanted to hear. Whether the solder joints and resistors will cause a lost in sonic quality, you can easily determine that by replacing any resistor in your audio gear (which is in the signal path) by ten resistors of one tenth the value.
The way I see it, music we hear has in fact gone through many resistors, capacitor and transistors/tubes, they are present in the circuit as they are required to do a job. I do not see more resistors a devil. Good soldering skills and use of quality components will ensure good sound.
If you're interested. I can dig out my stuff.
there is no question it is a miracle that what we hear can sound as good as it does when you consider what it has gone through to get to us.
I think there is a ready audience here to hear anything you have to offer Mr. Wong. You are an inspirational tickerer and experimenter (my favorite kind of person) and your work is of forward thinking.
So, the answer is, PLEASE -
We used to have a tv commercial a few years ago about a certain brokerage house that traded securities. The commercial went something like '...when E F Hutton speaks everyone listens...' and here in AA Pc audio when Jack Wong speaks everyone listens ... and tries to learn. At least I do.
Rick and Theob, I do hope the skills will not be forgotten and be useful to someone who needs to diying speakers. I'll dig out my hardware(I kept 30 years of electronic waste material and reuse them as necessary) and refresh myself on the procedure. Need to do some calculation, make a simple set up for demonstration and photo taking. Wait one week for the necessary works to be done, and in the meantime I am still playing around with the new H61 MBs.
Edits: 11/22/11
We will wait patiently.
I am in the midst of trying to find good balance between the drivers of my system. I am using one of Dave Slagle's autoformers for attenuation but can see no reason I cannot do fine tuning after that with your method to find the critical balance.
Thanks, again!
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