"SOLSTICE" MLTL Designed by Late Mr. Jeff Bagby (RIP)

[oldmonk]

which cable will you use to connect the crossover to the speaker drivers and speaker terminal/s ?

Hope its a good one - this is the time to do good things for inside the cabinet, even if it takes effort... as the inside may not be opened again for a long time and hopefully forever.

As they say - the God lies in the details !

 

[Kannan]

Speechless

 

[sadik]

which cable will you use to connect the crossover to the speaker drivers and speaker terminal/s ?

Hope its a good one - this is the time to do good things for inside the cabinet, even if it takes effort... as the inside may not be opened again for a long time and hopefully forever.

As they say - the God lies in the details !

All Internal Cables used are Belden 8477 except for tweeter.

Now Further updates

Crossover (It came pre assembled)




Stuffing Requires about 1lb (450 gms approx) for each enclosure. In my scale i have to measure it part wise like below photos



Enclosure stuffing


Driver Assembly




One will not believe the performance of such compact speakers, One needs to hear it personally to believe it. These are one of the best sounding speakers. The Bass is very powerful (unbelievable for such a small size of drivers), the highs are crystal clear & mids are sweet. In short everything is well balanced. The DIY community has faced a great loss due to sudden death of the Legend. Mr. Jeff Bagby (RIP) We miss you.

Now countdown for the final color starts.

 

[oldmonk]

amazing !!

will be nice to link a video of these playing for the members benifit...

I want to hear as well

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Thank you sir.

 

[sadik]

Here is the Video Link

 

[oldmonk]

Nice big amplifier that!

Big sound too !!!

Thank you!

 

[prasen_b]

From the video it appears that the mobile is the Analog source. Can you provide details about the preamp and the power amp.
You got very good results with the kit. Even with your mobile video the sound quality comes through.
I believe you have now top shelf DIY components. I am not sure about the preamp but from I remember you have constructed the F5 turbo and J Hiraga and few other class AB amps. Congratulations.

 

[jmascreen]

Here is the Video Link

Its sounds amazing, what it would sound once its moved to a living room/?

 

[oldmonk]

Its sounds amazing, what it would sound once its moved to a living room/?

I hope the buyer has a good amplifier capable of extracting the best out of these speakers

 

[sadik]

From the video it appears that the mobile is the Analog source. Can you provide details about the preamp and the power amp.
You got very good results with the kit. Even with your mobile video the sound quality comes through.
I believe you have now top shelf DIY components. I am not sure about the preamp but from I remember you have constructed the F5 turbo and J Hiraga and few other class AB amps. Congratulations.

The Preamp is from our FM @shaan 'PEECEEBEE Preamp"
Power Amp is by APEX "STUDIO REFERENCE SR - 200" - One of the best sounding class AB power amp.

Its sounds amazing, what it would sound once its moved to a living room/?

Just one word "MAGIC"

I hope the buyer has a good amplifier capable of extracting the best out of these speakers

I hope he already has one, if not he can arrange.

 

[Hiten]

If the owner believes in burn in I can give these beautiful speakers proper burn in. Couple of months would be good. and 2 months additional will make things 100% sure. Rock, Pop, classical and Bollywood music would be tested (No MP3 will be used). Speaker will be well taken care of like motherly kindergarten teacher takes care of children. Kindly tell.
Regards

 

[keith_correa]

In the uploaded picture of the crossover, isn't it missing a 25R shunt resistor [one part of the L-pad]?
Also, isn't the iron core inductor supposed to be an air core per design?
Crossover modified per taste?

 

[kapvin]

In the uploaded picture of the crossover, isn't it missing a 25R shunt resistor [one part of the L-pad]?
Also, isn't the iron core inductor supposed to be an air core per design?
Crossover modified per taste?

nice spotting on the shunt.

there are arguments for using an iron core instead of an aircore. lower DCR for one. and less saturation at higher power. but yes clearly modified as per taste

 

[keith_correa]

there are arguments for using an iron core instead of an aircore. lower DCR for one. and less saturation at higher power. but yes clearly modified as per taste

On the woofer circuit, yes. Oh, and you missed another important argument - cost!

 

[oldmonk]

The Solstice is a Parts Express kit with a fixed price

Why would someone modify the standard crossover with lower cost in mind ?

OTOH..the modifications if any should increase cost.

I see some nice components there.

Are these modifications or simply component changes to a higher grade ?

Just asking for knowledge. Am no technical expert.

 

[kapvin]

The Solstice is a Parts Express kit with a fixed price

Why would someone modify the standard crossover with lower cost in mind ?

OTOH..the modifications if any should increase cost.

I see some nice components there.

Are these modifications or simply component changes to a higher grade ?

Just asking for knowledge. Am no technical expert.

The caps in this kit are far superior and are much much higher priced than the pe kit oem caps.. Similarly the resistor. The fe core inductor is also a very high quality one

 

[keith_correa]

The Mundorf cap on the tweeter circuit should be a step up in quality from the Dayton that ships with the kit. It's also ~15x expensive than the one that comes with the kit.
The Solen cap on the woofer circuit should be around the same quality as the Dayton shipped with the kit but it's rated for 400V so it costs a little more than the one with the kit that is rated at 250V.
The resistor is a touted "non inductive" type but tests have debunked the "non inductive" part of this marketing talk so probably same as the Dayton with the kit.

 

[Hari Iyer]

The caps in this kit are far superior and are much much higher priced than the pe kit oem caps.. Similarly the resistor. The fe core inductor is also a very high quality one

Imo, the Mundorf M-cap is an entry level capacitor from them. In tweeter ckt I would prefer atleast an Aluminium Oil type capacitor. Still better will be copper, silver or gold if affordable.

 

[oldmonk]

entry level capacitor

There is nothing that stops an entry level from sounding good enough.

 

[Hari Iyer]

There is nothing that stops an entry level from sounding good enough.

It's all about preference and affordability. Even a bipolar electrolytic will do if on a budget I have used Epcos motor and pump capacitors with good success.