After having been to Axpona many times now, I can say that I agree with JR in that I have been driven out of many rooms after a very short time. Hell I really don’t like some of the speakers mentioned in this threads posts, but that doesn’t make them bad, just bad for me. I say diy and build it to suit your own taste, and if you like the sound it’s a success regardless of what others think or like. I heard people say they liked a diy company speaker there that was a 3 way using a compression tweeter and get this only 2 components in the crossover 2 Capacitors . One on the tweeter and one on the mid. Shit, I’ve been doing this whole crossover thing wrong for decades now. Had I only known…
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I intend to keep going because it is another creative outlet for me and I have some more ideas that might work and how can you know unless you try.
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Funny. Based on descriptions I feel like i’d have a better time there than alot of you guys. As long as odd order distorion is under control and bass or trebel isn’t rediculously boosted I can usually appreciate voicing differences. (sometimes I enjoy a hot mid too)
Not unlike wine tastings I’ve attended. There are flavors I dislike, but it is still very interesting experinencing them in new ways and comparing to others. I can appreciate the differences for what they add and contrast even though I don’t outright fully enjoy the result in totality.
But I guess if they are blasting trash recordings.. not much to experience there.
Any photos or details of the speakers that Nick did the XO for?
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The all black baffle and drivers make it difficult to see. Is it concentric palanars? A planar tweeter in front of a large planar mid, or are the wings part of the waveguide? The woofers look huge.
Planar tweeter in front of planar mid and 9.5" compound loaded woofers.
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Thanks Nick, interesting concept for nesting the mids!
Thanks Ani, but I can’t take credit for that. Tom brought me the assembly, it was his idea, but it was flat and I modified it with the waveguide which makes it work better.
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Neo 3 over a 10?
That is what it looks like to me.
I see 6 vertical slots. The neo 3 only has 5 vertical slots.
Radian LT2 ?
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Javad posted more than 70 pictures on Facebook.
DIY Loudspeaker Project Pad group.
This is a closeup of the Neo drivers I made by cropping and brightening one of his photos.
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Nick told me they are Radian planars.
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nice. i missed hearing these. Would be interesting to hear Bill’s Big BG ribbon with the planar tweeter in the middle.
When you say compound, is it 4 woofers in isobaric configuration?
Similar to Bill’s tweet in middle of even taller planar and sans waveguiding. Self have the 6825 grs’s and the closed back smaller grs tweet - questioned how close to bg’s where have not searched/read enough for conclusion. But I have been curious about Radian planar amt offerings, with and without company provided waveguide options. In general not see lot of amt comparison’s bubble to hot topics in diy forums…. Like Mundorf has spendy offerings, PE’s amt’s, GRS, Radian and others accessible to diy as well as stuff used in Emotiva and Adam studio monitors. In short, find myself wondering if diving into the GRS’s I have will leave me sad or know if missing something from not going premium that not sure my ears will quantify differences.
Hola. Here are a few shorts:
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