For the sake of being complete, I never had to replace the caps on my crossover. It turned out there was a crappy soldering place in my crossover. It would variously work/not work depending on the temperature (figures). I eventually bought a gun and shot^H^H^H^Hsoldered it myself. It didn't take me 3 years to figure this out though. It just took 3 years to type it up.
upgrading crossover components on speakers
Has anyone ever dealt with tweaking perfectly good orginal crossover components to get better performance. I have to replace a broken capacitor on a crossover with something other than the original. I will be replacing an original Polyester capacitor with a Polypropylene one. Some people have even suggested that I replace all of the Polyester capacitors on each network with Polypropylene ones. Anyone have any experience with such tweaks?
Also, could I not create identical crossover networks to play with by just building a new one with components that have the same values as the existing ones? I mean there is no magic to the way the parts are layed out on the PCB, right? As long as the signal path is correct, right?
regards,
Lance
Also, could I not create identical crossover networks to play with by just building a new one with components that have the same values as the existing ones? I mean there is no magic to the way the parts are layed out on the PCB, right? As long as the signal path is correct, right?
regards,
Lance