Caution:
Recent Crossover Overhaul:
My friend has two identical sets of JSE Infinite Slope Model 2’s. They sounded the same to both of us in repeated comparisons.
OLD: he overhauled the crossovers of one pair, we compared last week.
Cassandra Wilson; Kate Wolf; Annie Lenox; Richard Burton, VOICES
unchanged pair: maintained the voices as I/we know them for many years
altered pair: ALL the voices were shifted slightly up, the voices slightly ’wrong’, Richard Burton and Cassandra Wilson, their voices are very revealing, I always take them to stores and to friends systems.
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Sooooo
Two adjustable crossovers, NICE BUT TRICKY:
Unless you know crossover parts have failed;
Before you mess with crossover parts (no matter how old they are):
I would get a sound level meter with tripod mount,
AND a test CD (not lp) with individual frequencies.
Tripod, seated position, seated ear height.
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You say midbass is bad: Find what you are getting now. Mess with your equalizers, see the effects via the meters, i.e. actual not apparent.
TRICKY: To adjust, you need to match the l and r individually to each other, AND, you need to equalize the room when both are playing.
I have level controls, simply volume of mid horn to woofer, then volume of tweeter horn to mid horn, back and forth, again/repeat.
btw, a meter will hear objectively, does not account for your preferences and or hearing, i.e. old dog needs to boost the highs a bit more than the meter shows.
