Face, Ait, Irish65 and Undertow,
I wanted to thank you all for your replies, each was very helpful. While I would love to use Duelund CAST in part or all of this project, unfortunately my budget priorities preclude it. I believe, however, that with the advice I am getting here I can arrive at a very musically satisfying crossover that I will enjoy for years, and I may indeed upgrade it again to include some CAST components.
I haven't measured the values of the inductors yet but was planning to send them off to have that done more accurately than what I think we could do in the shop here in town. As Undertow suggested I did a bit more digging and basically found that there doesn't seem to be a clear cut answer as to which is better it seems application driven but the film inductor being a little more organic really hits home with me. I may try the 10awg Mundorf film just to do it, but I'm sure the 12awg would indeed already be overkill. I recently put some Telefunken ribbed plates in my monoblocks and feel that I have some system dynamics to spare, so moving more in the organic direction of the film inductor rather than more punchy should be the right move.
I'm sure that either of the inductors I am considering will be better than what's currently in there. I figure too that making such a radical change in the inductor, particularly in terms of DCR, will have a big effect on the speakers. I had avoided doing this on the 17.5s, staying instead with the stock inductors. But as organic as those speakers sounded, it just didn't seem that the midrange/woofer driver had an engine behind it that would let it keep up with the speed that the Duelund VSF brought to the tweeter. It's somewhat of a shot in the dark, but that's what I want to see with my first pass at the inductors on this project will the large gauge film inductors take the system in a faster and more organic direction.
Again, thanks so much to each of you, you have been a HUGE help.
John
I wanted to thank you all for your replies, each was very helpful. While I would love to use Duelund CAST in part or all of this project, unfortunately my budget priorities preclude it. I believe, however, that with the advice I am getting here I can arrive at a very musically satisfying crossover that I will enjoy for years, and I may indeed upgrade it again to include some CAST components.
I haven't measured the values of the inductors yet but was planning to send them off to have that done more accurately than what I think we could do in the shop here in town. As Undertow suggested I did a bit more digging and basically found that there doesn't seem to be a clear cut answer as to which is better it seems application driven but the film inductor being a little more organic really hits home with me. I may try the 10awg Mundorf film just to do it, but I'm sure the 12awg would indeed already be overkill. I recently put some Telefunken ribbed plates in my monoblocks and feel that I have some system dynamics to spare, so moving more in the organic direction of the film inductor rather than more punchy should be the right move.
I'm sure that either of the inductors I am considering will be better than what's currently in there. I figure too that making such a radical change in the inductor, particularly in terms of DCR, will have a big effect on the speakers. I had avoided doing this on the 17.5s, staying instead with the stock inductors. But as organic as those speakers sounded, it just didn't seem that the midrange/woofer driver had an engine behind it that would let it keep up with the speed that the Duelund VSF brought to the tweeter. It's somewhat of a shot in the dark, but that's what I want to see with my first pass at the inductors on this project will the large gauge film inductors take the system in a faster and more organic direction.
Again, thanks so much to each of you, you have been a HUGE help.
John