Jantzen Wax Coil or Mundorf M-Coil CFC

Parts Connexion will unroll any of their foil caps for a fee.  Send Chris an e-mail, really a great guy to work with.

https://www.partsconnexion.com/

Hi @erik_squires,

I like https://www.partsconnexion.com/ but they don’t sell inductors that I interest for Jantzen Wax Coils and Mundorf MCoil VLCU Paper Copper Film Inductors.

I experienced one paradox. I have Altec 604E speakers. I used DIY German crossover built with autotransformer. The LPF iron core inductor DCR was 0.2 Ohm.

Now I use n-1500 crossover with original old iron core inductor DCR = 0.32 Ohm and different modern PIO capacitors and Duelund resistors.

Bass reproduction with German DIY crossover was bloated. Despite higher inductor DCR, bass reproduction with n-1500 is much more controlled, textured and detailed. I just want to add n-1500 has around +3dB output on 5K-10K vs German DIY crossover, that can be an important factor.

Regards,

Alex.

https://www.hificollective.co.uk/

they have all the inductors you want. 

Hi @yuviarora ,

Currently I use vintage iron core 1.5mH inductors with 0.32 Ohms DCR. And I like how do my speakers sound with my current crossover configuration.

I’m choosing between Jantzen Wax Coil 14AWG - 0.34R DCR and 12AWG - 0.25R DCR.

Jantzen Wax Coil 14AWG has a very similar DCR to my current inductor. Any reason to go to Jantzen Wax Coil 12AWG?

Regards,

Alex.

@alexberger if it's the for the mids, I'd go 12 gauge, the larger coil just sounds better in every way, at least it did in my speaker setup.