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RF5 mod and filter upgrade


Sentenzux

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Hi,

 

I recently acquired a pair of RF-5 and a RC-7 in very good shape and have now been appreciating them for about 3 months. 

 

But they've shown some of the "problems", or more specifically traits that people don't really like: being quite harsh in the upper end. While this is something I was somehow looking for when I decided to buy these speakers, this was a bit tiring after a few hours of listening and so I decided to do something about it.

 

I've now placed approximately 2.5 mm of "Plastiline" on the back face of the horn, and things are far more relaxed now, but I still need to tweak it as I lost a bit of high frequency, but not that much. 

 

I'm quite happy with this first step as I would qualify my listening less harsh but also more precise, but would be happy to have a look at the crossover now...

 

Having already digested a substantial number of posts on this forum, my plan is:

  • Do not touch inductors... I'm not equipped to measure them, and my understanding is I've more chance to break things than fix them
  • Upgrade capacitors to something better... But which ones? Budget isn't my biggest concern here, but size can quickly become a problem
  • Upgrade resistors... They're cheap and easy to replace, but is it worth it?

 

Would you help me getting these to another level?

 

@Deang, I hope to get you and your memory on this ;)

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