mustang_flht Posted January 12, 2020 Posted January 12, 2020 I believe someone asked to see the CW4 filter: here it is You can send me 💙 2 2 Quote
Edgar Posted January 12, 2020 Posted January 12, 2020 13 minutes ago, mustang_flht said: I believe someone asked to see the CW4 filter: here it is Tsk, tsk; those zip-ties are the wrong color. Six inductors, six capacitors. Three 2nd-order filters; either that or asymmetric crossover slopes. 1 Quote
mustang_flht Posted January 12, 2020 Posted January 12, 2020 On 1/7/2020 at 8:01 PM, Chris A said: As far as the Cornwall IV, I can see some of why a lot of people like what they're hearing--mostly midrange and tweeter driver/horn overhaul and I can only guess what Roy did with the crossover (although if someone were to open up a Cornwall IV and take a picture of the crossover--or perhaps even post a schematic--it would be much less of a mystery). I do congratulate Roy on the CW-IV design as being Guttenberg's "Loudspeaker of the Year". That's saying a lot, since there are so many factors (and so many non-technical ones, like the art of making loudspeakers that consumers will like--rather just make them accurate reproducers). The original Cornwall design seemed to be PWK's upgrade from the Heresy (model "H"), and Roy has taken that design and really done something with it--enough to get real notice. If there was a time that Klipsch could use that added reputation boost, now is a good time. Chris The demand was there 😉 1 Quote
mustang_flht Posted January 12, 2020 Posted January 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Edgar said: Tsk, tsk; those zip-ties are the wrong color. Six inductors, six capacitors. Three 2nd-order filters; either that or asymmetric crossover slopes. Hi, I see at least 7 inductors, it seems to me that Klipsh always has an 18db / oct (3nd-order) on the tweeter, certainly the 1.5uF visible. And then there must be RLC circuit(s) in parrallele on the squawker and maybe also the woofer to compensate for the bump in the impedance curve 😉 Quote
Edgar Posted January 12, 2020 Posted January 12, 2020 14 minutes ago, mustang_flht said: I see at least 7 inductors, I only count 6; see attached. Quote And then there must be RLC circuit(s) in parrallele on the squawker and maybe also the woofer to compensate for the bump in the impedance curve Zobels are often mounted at the drivers, and don't contribute to crossover filter order. Quote
mustang_flht Posted January 12, 2020 Posted January 12, 2020 hi, Sorry, I made a mistake, I meant seven capacitors There are 2 one on the other in the bottom right ! I dismounted my filter on CWIII and there is RLC on squawker and K33E, klipsch uses this method Quote
mustang_flht Posted January 12, 2020 Posted January 12, 2020 10 minutes ago, Edgar said: I only count 6; see attached. YES Zobels are often mounted at the drivers, and don't contribute to crossover filter order. Yes Quote
Edgar Posted January 12, 2020 Posted January 12, 2020 16 minutes ago, mustang_flht said: Sorry, I made a mistake, I meant seven capacitors There are 2 one on the other in the bottom right ! No problem. Yes, I didn't notice that "hidden" capacitor, but two capacitors in parallel are electrically one capacitor. 1 Quote
BeFuddledinMn Posted January 14, 2020 Posted January 14, 2020 Looks like a 12db slope on both sides of the mid and the woofer. And I’m guessing those carefully sculpted bass ports were tailored to reduce distortion/resonance relative to the past. But by how much? Is the Cornwall IV getting closer to clean LaScala bass? Quote
Edgar Posted January 14, 2020 Posted January 14, 2020 2 hours ago, BeFuddledinMn said: Looks like a 12db slope on both sides of the mid and the woofer. And I’m guessing those carefully sculpted bass ports were tailored to reduce distortion/resonance relative to the past. But by how much? Is the Cornwall IV getting closer to clean LaScala bass? From what I heard at the Bonehead class, the Cornwall IV went deeper than the LaScala, but it didn't quite have the horn-loaded bass character of the LaScala. That's not to say that the CW bass was bad; it was just different. Quote
Dave A Posted January 14, 2020 Posted January 14, 2020 Yup the physical impact of the La Scala was better but the fidelity of the CW4 was stellar. If I had to choose between the two the CW4 would easily win. 4 Quote
Dave A Posted January 14, 2020 Posted January 14, 2020 On 1/12/2020 at 7:35 AM, Edgar said: Tsk, tsk; those zip-ties are the wrong color. Six inductors, six capacitors. Three 2nd-order filters; either that or asymmetric crossover slopes. Yes and they hid the slobber, I mean solder joints. Quote
Edgar Posted January 14, 2020 Posted January 14, 2020 12 minutes ago, Dave A said: Yup the physical impact of the La Scala was better but the fidelity of the CW4 was stellar. If I had to choose between the two the CW4 would easily win. And the CW4 was noticeably better in the midrange, at least to my ears. 1 Quote
CANT Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 On 1/12/2020 at 1:40 AM, mikebse2a3 said: Do you have non cropped version of this photo? Quote
mikebse2a3 Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 56 minutes ago, CANT said: Do you have non cropped version of this photo? Sorry no... I grabbed that shot from the Klipsch video Quote
JohnA Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 On 1/14/2020 at 2:53 PM, BeFuddledinMn said: Looks like a 12db slope on both sides of the mid and the woofer. And I’m guessing those carefully sculpted bass ports were tailored to reduce distortion/resonance relative to the past. But by how much? Is the Cornwall IV getting closer to clean LaScala bass? Yes. The Chief told us most (all?) of the filters were 2-pole. But that does not mean 12 dB/oct for the network. With contouring, the slopes are much steeper, a la the Type AA's 21-ish dB tweeter high pass. Quote
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