Blew up the Krell S-300i

[JohnMichael]

Ahhhh.. It ain't that bad. Pull yourself together. When the Krell gets home you gotta do something special for her like go out and find those special speakers for her so when it's time to purchase it won't be a problem.

Check out this speaker kit. An interesting design point is the tweeter face plate. It is designed to narrow the tweeters output in the midrange and to broaden output in the highs. The concept with having the drivers dispersion more similar the crossover is less noticeable. Of course I only glanced at the article and will reread it tonight. Looked intersting and fun to put a kit together.

The Audio Beat - SEAS Idunn Loudspeaker Kit

[frenchmon]

Check out this speaker kit. An interesting design point is the tweeter face plate. It is designed to narrow the tweeters output in the midrange and to broaden output in the highs. The concept with having the drivers dispersion more similar the crossover is less noticeable. Of course I only glanced at the article and will reread it tonight. Looked intersting and fun to put a kit together.

The Audio Beat - SEAS Idunn Loudspeaker Kit

I like wide dispersion sounds interesting....not a bad price either. You have the skills....might be a good project.

[E-Stat]

The concept with having the drivers dispersion more similar the crossover is less noticeable.

Bingo!

As a coherency freak, I find that flaw immediately noticeable. A friend and I were comparing his modified Advents to JBL L-110s - the more neutral sounding cousin to the more famous L-100 Century. While it was quite neutral in character and had a more extended top end than the Advent, it ran the 5" midrange up to 5 kHz. The problem is the driver beamed horribly at the crossover point - where the wide dispersion tweeter took over.

The result was an image that resembled a fun house mirror: frequency-wise it had a wide stage at the top and bottom but noticeably pinched at a critical mid point. Very unnatural sounding.

[JohnMichael]

I am missing the wide and deep soundstage provided by the Krell. I am missing the purity and the clarity. The S-300i has 5 way binding posts so I will be able to use the AntiCables again. Hope to hear something soon about the return of the repaired int. amp. Since they are fixing my amp under warranty for something I did I have not had the nerve to complain.