RE: BD-Design Orphean/AER

Posted by Retsel (A) on July 25, 2023 at 11:33:39

In Reply to: RE: BD-Design Orphean/AER posted by belyin on July 25, 2023 at 10:23:27:

I had a pair of Lowther DX4 drivers and their foam deteriorated. I looked around at replacement foam for the surround and spider and found Zenwoodaudio sells repair parts. I purchased the repair parts from him and after the repair, I thought that the drivers sounded even better than the original, although this is impossible to confirm without A/B testing. I don't know if the parts would work with AER drivers, but it would be worth looking into.

Zenwoodaudio has a youtube video showing how to make the repair, and it is very doable for a first time speaker repair.

A tragic story, but I was trying out different diffusers and a homemade rubber washer got twisted and blew out the former of one of my DX4 drivers - yikes!

So I purchased DX65 Lowther cones for replacements, and this has worked out really well for me. I use the DX65s in front waveguides.

I find the 15 ohm variety of Lowther drivers to have fewer issues in the treble. I ordered the 15 ohm, DX65 drivers with straight whizzer cones - based on a modification suggested by a long time Lowther user, in which I cut the end of the rolled edge of the DX4 whizzer cone and unfolded the whizzer - and found the high frequencies to be better.

Last comment, it is worth trying out different diffuser shapes with these wide range drivers - I have the Lowther bullet, holey doorknob and light bulb diffusers, but in my homemade waveguides, I found the Par light bulbs to work the best - the light bulb is the plastic variety with rounded edges and diffuser essentially covers the entire face of the cone, not the surround. If you want to see a different version of what I use, see the Beauhorn Virtuoso website for their diffuser.

Retsel

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Topic - BD-Design Orphean - Johno 19:05:08 07/24/23 (29)

I have the Orphean Horns ...... - Cut-Throat 15:09:02 07/25/23 (8)

RE: I have the Orphean Horns ...... - Johno 17:14:27 07/25/23 (7)

RE: I have the Orphean Horns ...... - Cut-Throat 17:21:34 07/25/23 (6)

RE: I have the Orphean Horns ...... - Johno 18:02:28 07/25/23 (5)

RE: I have the Orphean Horns ...... - Cut-Throat 18:33:46 07/25/23 (4)

How does that M5 xover work? - Rod M 19:22:51 07/25/23 (1)

RE: How does that M5 xover work? - Cut-Throat 23:11:20 07/25/23 (0)

RE: Ok got it - Orphean Horns ...... - Johno 19:21:58 07/25/23 (1)

RE: Ok got it - Orphean Horns ...... - Cut-Throat 05:00:57 07/26/23 (0)

RE: BD-Design Orphean - Don Reid 08:10:04 07/25/23 (19)

RE: BD-Design Orphean - doug s. 19:00:29 09/10/24 (0)

RE: BD-Design Orphean/AER - belyin 10:23:27 07/25/23 (9)

RE: BD-Design Orphean/AER - Retsel 11:33:39 07/25/23 (0)

RE: BD-Design Orphean/AER - Don Reid 11:02:16 07/25/23 (7)

RE: BD-Design Orphean/AER - belyin 15:50:32 07/26/23 (5)

RE: BD-Design Orphean/AER - Retsel 13:50:51 07/27/23 (4)

RE: Great insight into AER drivers - Johno 01:14:20 07/28/23 (3)

RE: Great insight into AER drivers - Don Reid 07:26:13 07/28/23 (2)

RE: Great insight into AER drivers - SMathews 09:17:19 01/08/24 (1)

RE: Great insight into AER drivers - belyin 14:06:37 01/08/24 (0)

RE: BD-Design Orphean/AER - Johno 18:15:37 07/25/23 (0)

BMS 4592 ND might be good to 300 Hz.... - Ivan303 09:37:52 07/25/23 (7)

RE: BMS 4592 ND might be good to 300 Hz.... - Johno 17:38:05 07/25/23 (6)

RE: BMS 4592 ND might be good to 300 Hz.... - tomservo 16:00:18 08/01/23 (0)

Worse than that.... - Ivan303 06:53:39 07/26/23 (4)

RE: Worse than that.... - Retsel 14:06:06 07/27/23 (1)

Certainly would be my guess... - Ivan303 17:46:28 07/27/23 (0)

RE: Worse than that.... - Johno 16:46:00 07/26/23 (0)

RE: Worse than that.... - Cut-Throat 16:36:27 07/26/23 (0)

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