Stuck at home? Make a speaker or something for goodness sake!

DavidLouis part 2, 
Both w18's are now Up N running, In my exceitment to try out the front firing baffel, I forgot earlier to hook up one cahnnel's w18's. 
All 4 now firing away

The vid abruptly ends as the Sony cam has tiny card memory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4yTBQ5YrH8

The components are out there to make beautiful pure high fidelity music.
It only takes
~~~The Creative Mind~~
To seek out these possibilities and make it happen
As in my newest latest design.
You too can own a  world class SHF speaker.
Sure folks said
**ohh you can't do that**, well I broke all the rules and pay off was high fidelity.

mozartfan,
What tools do you use to design proper crossovers for these projects?

roxy544,406 posts08-12-2021 5:44pmmozartfan,
What tools do you use to design proper crossovers for these projects?


No I have no xover exp.
What I did was, tear out the brand new Millenniums, 
The xover was easy to tear out , as I had madisound redo my old xovers and had the bass xover and tweet xover on SEPARATE boards.
OK so Milleeium gone + xover partion gone
Now we are left with the fantastic dual W19E001's,. 
Remain in place
xover tweaked, took out the 8.2 installeda   10uf Supreme Silver. cut off now is like,,,say 1600hzish??
Now what are we going to do for 1600hz on up...hummm, lets try a  wide band
ceck
Order Voxativ AC1A. 
after a  10 ,,make that 5 minute trial in open and also ina  12inch1inch12inch  1/2 inch play cabinet=
Listed and sold at 1300/free ship, Gone
, back to drawing board... 
huummm back to davidLouis.. 
4 inch = SUCESS
Lets try the big brother 6.5
Success
Lets add some top end sheen
Add a  paper cone 3.5 inch double magnet Kasun
Check SUccess!!!
+ a  Mundorf 2.2 SESGO ($100 EACH!!!) ripped from Millennium xover.
Ck, sweet shiny sparkly highs, say 9kishfq =,,hummm , maybe 15k+hz's. 
DavidLouis runs wide open, no xover, just straight juice.
BBasically i have TWO!!!!!!! Caps in this Frankenstein
a  10uf/W18's
2.2/Kasun paper tweet.

Clean, clear,  near zero distortion,  near zero coloration, near zero fatigue, ona  scale of
1-100
1 being lowest possibel, ~~~~100 being like    Bose or B&W type coloration/distortion/fatigue.

It does not have as wide a sound stage as  say a  dual  W22 Graphene + DavidLouis 8 inch + Kasun 3.5 paper double magnet. . 
That speaker would compete with the best, any Wislon speaker in terms of width and breath of soundstage.

The Kasun might need a xover design to voice superior, but I have no access to any measurements nor software to design a  xover, So a simple 2.2 cap is all I can give it. 
And it sounds wonderful. Vocals accurate, clean, highs shimmer and sparkle. 
Is the Seas T35 better? I have no idea. 
I'm done with buying high priced tweets. 
The Crescendo was a huge disappoi9ntment. 
I will have it shiped to madisound for testing. If Madisound shows tweet working as new, = a  POS, sens is no more than 82db, IF THAT!!!!
Seas claims 92db.
Off by a  factor of 10db = trash. 
IMHO The kasun is the tweet to beat. 91 TRUE db sens. 

What exactly are we after ina  spaeker
Bass
Mids
Highs
Lets  forget bass and highs for the moment.
Midrange, 500hz-2khz/5khz whatever
But what are we REALLY after in a  speaker?

Lowest possible:::
Coloration
Distortion
Fatigue level
Accurate vocal presence
Instrumental separation/soundstage
 Is this asking too much?
You bet it is. 
Many world famous speakers fall short in 1,2,3 or even all 4 categories. 
This has been my  lengthy, costly , adventures in speaker selection.
I truly believe I have succeeded.
But I am looking for more.
The Speaker saga venture continues.............
I may already have IT,
But not sure
The W18's remain, The Kasun remains. Aint touching either.
Its the wide band 
Lets try another DavidLouis , this time the white wooden cone 8 incher.
vs his 6.5 yellow paper mix....
Til next time...............