@tomthiel
Thank you for your appreciation. My interest in high-end professional digital sources began twenty years ago. In my opinion, Merging is a point of no return. I can wright a lot about it, but I don’t want to go off topic.
Back to my updated CS2.4, I would like to spent some word about its. Saturday, for a few hours I listened they and I can say that I was very impressed.
- Resolution
- Holography,
- Sound more clear and cleaning,
- Naturalness,
- Linearity,
- Pleasure of listening, leaved me speechless.
Every parameter of my beloved loudspeakers, that I know as the lining of my pockets, it was improved.
Really!
I didn’t think I would get such a result.
All this improvement I checked it out with only 15 hours of work.
What will happen in 100 hours of sound?
It was a hard work, but it was worth it.
My system has taken impoprtant jump forward in quality .
With these results, I bless every penny spent.
My upgrade consist in:
Outboard Crossover.
In the picture the cabinets inspired on the CS 2.4 design
All caps replacement.
For the coax I mixed Clarity Caps CSA 250V with Jantzen Alumen Z-Cap and Miflex KPCU 03 250V 0.1uF. While for the woofer, Clarity Caps + Miflex KPCU 03 250V 0.33uF
All resistor replacement with Mills MRA12. I paid particular attention to 16 and 30 Ohm resistors by inventing two passive coolers for them. As you can see, I inserted a thermal pad between the aluminum and the resistor in order to dampen the vibrations and isolate the contact with the aluminum.
I kept all the genuine coils.
I tried replacing them with Jantzen wax coils and the Cross Coil, but I got a bad result. The sound had worsened, distorting the CS2.4 sound characteristics.
As regards the components running-in and the relative improve sound, I will update you. 🙂
