It is not just parts quality, but how you do things. For instance, it sounds better to wire a coil into the inside and out the outside winding. So, the outside winding would go to ground or output.....practically no one knows this. I don’t know a single speaker done this way. It is not subtle, the sonic difference. There are connectors on drivers that you can bypass and wire directly to the voice coil wires.....no one in the world does this.....sometimes, especially when a driver has binding posts on it.....the sound can be completely transformed by removing the binding post and hardwiring to the voice coil wire. All capacitors need to be oriented properly.....like the coils....that is, the outside foil on the cap should go to ground or output. I don't see any markings on the caps in the PS Audio xover, so I would assume they are all put in there willy nilly. All binding posts degrade the sound. The best ones that I have heard are the WBT Negtgen coppers. Even better than that is using nylon hardware to clamp your speaker wires to the xover wires.....as shown in the pic of the Apogee xover on my site. I will have this as the main set up on a bookshelf speaker I will be producing later this year (of course, it will have the wires going directly to the voice coil wires on my full range driver in the box). You do not want to use traces in your xover....you want the parts hardwired together. You want the xover parts not vibrating with the box....or on their own.......on and on it goes....this game is infinite. Enjoy this moment....the only moment that exists
Ps audio aspen FR 30 Loudspeakers
Having bought several upper end products from p.s audio in the past such as their flagship dac Parts quality inside were Average at best. I am looking at New Loudspeakers and having over 40 years in audio and owning a Audio Store to me a 🚩 flag is when you won’t should the Critical Xover inside which is the ♥️ orthe 🧠 of the speaker , at $28,500 The speaker should be shown inside and out , and if a company uses the term proprietary drivers or Xover parts ,that means nothing special I except the lofty $$ price tag. Having modded Loudspeakers for myself and others for over 20 years ,know first hand most mags take many cost cutting short cuts . It’s up to the mfg to Prove to the buyer they are worthy,Especially a totally new item , they specialize in electronics ,Not Loudspeakers . Unless you can see everything about the drivers, and Xover and parts quality ,then most likely parts are made in China or close to it ,in reality less then $8k into the total build , look at a Wilson Sabrina ,Magico, B&W , they all disclose their build designs . Just ge careful, if you can’t see all your answers, they buy with ⚠️ Caution ⚠️
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