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RE: Hey Altec A-7 users: what frequency do you crossover at?

Posted by Saturntube (M) on September 1, 2007 at 07:54:53

In Reply to: Hey Altec A-7 users: what frequency do you crossover at? posted by LineArrayNut on August 31, 2007 at 09:15:22:

I`ve had the Altec Valencia for about 10 years now, they were in and out of my system, I liked some things but not the whole package, mids integration never did sound right to me, I got tired of playing around with Xovers and getting limited results, speaker level XO, line level XO, passive, active, biamping, triamping with supertweeters and adding an active sub, I guess that makes it quadamping!!! So after a lot of thought and work I added a midbass horn from about 150 hz to 1k and cut the 811 horns and 802 up to 1khz, now that was better.
Bass wasnt really extended, I was getting about 45 hz, so I changed the 416 woofer to a pair of 200 lts cabinets I had my EV-TRX15 on, this is bass! It made the REL subwoofer useless...
Lets face it the 811 horns out of their cabinets are pretty ugly and I wanted to try out a Tactrix for highs, so I turned a 1 inch 500hz horn, better sound stage better integration, really nice!
Now anyone who has listened to an 802 knows highs are not really extended, the "sparkle" is missing, I always hated tweeters and supertweeters, thats why I went into fullrange drivers a while ago only to find out whizzer highs are even worst! so a super tweeter is needed argh! Eventually I changed the 802 for a Beyma driver, much more detail, more air between the instruments, extended, I did have to tame it down...really happy now with the monster, not much of the orignal Valencia is left though...

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