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- From: tuzman@ee.umn.edu (grad student Alvaro K. Tuzman)
- Subject: Speakers kit advise needed
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- Organization: Electrical Engineering, U of MN, Mpls.
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:49:36 GMT
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- First, I appologize for having sent this message with the wrong
- "Subject". I hope it didn't cause too much inconvenience.
-
-
- Dear Audio-crowd:
-
- I have decided to build my own pair of speakers. This is going
- to be my first time, so I decided to buy a kit. In this way I can
- experiment, but with some guidance, hoping not to be too far
- away from the "correct" (?) tweaking. I would like to get a
- very clear speaker, unfortunatelly in a budget. Here's where I
- am: I got in touch with a very friendly and knowledgable guy in
- the net, who gave me many basic guidances, told me about
- books and papers, and a little bit about drivers.
-
- I've looked at the following kits (not in order of preference
- necessarily), and I would greatly appreciate any advise for the
- final decision on which one to buy:
-
- (all prices without cabinets, except 4))
-
- 1) D'APPOLITO 717 SIGNATURE SPEAKER
-
- Woofer: Scan Speak 18W8544 Kevlar (2)
- Tweeter: Scan Speak D2905
- network: 4th order Linkwitz-Riley at 2200 Hz
- Price: $560
-
- I was warned about Kevlar break up, but since this crossover
- is at a very low frequency, I thought it may not be a problem.
- The ad says it has very clerar midrange. (This kit is a little bit
- expensive for me, but I might get there).
-
- 2) Davis MV7
-
- Woofer: 20MC8A
- Tweeter: TW26T
- Mid: 13KLV5MA
- Crossover filter: 6/6/12/12 dB slopes, 500/4500 Hz
- Price: $415
-
- 3) Gemini
-
- Woofer: 15W758 (2)
- Tweeter: D260
- Crossover: ?
- Price: $662
-
- The people at Madisound told me that this kit is great. Looking
- at the tweeter curves, the D260 seems to have a big
- attenuation away from the axis starting at less than 10 Khz. It
- seems to me that if you don't listen to your system always
- from the same sofa you could get in trouble.
-
- 4) Phoenix
-
- Madisound 10208 woofer
- Peerless 1615 mid
- Vifa D20TD05 tweeter
- frequency range: 35 - 20K +-2dB
- crossover: 18 db, impedance compensated
- $ 600 with cabinets.
-
- 5) The Twinn
-
- It has 2 woofers and a tweeter in a D'Appolito configuration.
- Woofer: 17W75 (2 of them)
- Tweeter: D-28 AF
- Price: $500
-
- Thanks in advance for any comments.
-
- Alvaro K. Tuzman
- Univesity of Minnesota
- tuzman@ee.umn.edu
-
-