Zu Omen or Tekton Lore

Genjamon,

Could you go into some more detail about your Lore's mods? I own Lores, but I've never opened them up... I just assumed it is a single cap before the tweeter.

- Woody

No, it's a full crossover network. The woofer is not run fullrange - crossover is in the neighborhood of 3khz I think. Three caps, two resistors, two inductors. I replaced the caps and resistors with higher quality - Mills for resistors, and a mixture of Clarity SA, ESA, and Mundorf Supreme for the caps. 18 gauge silver hookup wire replaced the zipcord stock internal wiring. Bypassed the binding posts by routing the internal cabling through two small holes I drilled into the cabinets just above the binding posts, using binding posts to clamp to the speaker cables from my amp.

01-28-14: Ictwoody
Could you go into some more detail about your Lore's mods? I own Lores, but I've never opened them up... I just assumed it is a single cap before the tweeter.
- Woody

Woody, the caps in your Lores are Dayton. I believe Eric used Dayton on the earlier Lores and then switched to less expensive caps later (not that Dayton are super expensive). I've got a good pic of the XO from when I did the Dynamat mod on yours, PM me at that other site if you want me to send it to you. Assuming you're the same Ictwoody I sold mine to ;)

Genjamon,

IIRC, you corresponded with Eric about your mods. If not you, apologies, then it was someone else who also modded some speakers.

Did he end up adapting any of your work into later iterations of any of his speakers? Or put another way, is Eric amenable to doing mods, maybe even similar to what you did, on speakers one orders?

I think I would rather listen to the speakers in stock form first, but NOT being a DIY kind of guy, if I wanted to mod, my options would be to either send speakers back to him or find someone else who would.

What skills are required? Soldering?