speakerstuff

DONE!  Crossovers, dampening and drivers installed, sounds amazing!

Listening impressions: I’m afraid I can’t really give these speakers a fair audition.  Not only am I novice with this, I also have an absolute horrible room for acoustics: laminate flooring and the couch is on the back wall.  Building these sealed, I have to augment them with a sub, so bass from my Dayton Reference 12″ is boomy (extension is impressive, but this room is making it boomy).  As for the flooring, I have a rug, but it’s not positioned to catch that first reflection point.  For the side wall first reflections, I have another couch (good) and a stone fireplace (bad).  I’m planning on treating the wall behind the speakers, behind the couch, and building a couple of bass traps, but right now the room is really hurting things.  In addition, the speakers are not positioned as wide as I’d like, so the sound stage feels kinda narrow.

All that considered, these things still sound awesome.  They feel very balanced and accurate.  I’m hearing things in music I didn’t know were there.  It gives me a whole new appreciation for the music I’m listening to.  I find myself saying, “Ohhh, that’s what it’s supposed to sound like, that sounds good!”  The tweeters are so smooth and don’t offend me at all, even with crappy recordings with no dynamic range.  I’m not a fan of metal tweeters (I probably haven’t heard any good ones), so these tweeters are welcome here.  The RS150s seem to blend well with the 27TDFCs.  CJD, whatever you did to design this crossover, I AM SOLD.  Midbass is tight and punchy and transitions well with the sub.  Well I’ll say it SHOULD transition well once I get my sub from sounding like I’m underwater and a whale is talking.  I was really worried about the low speaker height until I heard them and I can now comfortably say it’s a non-issue.  Anyway, as a novice audiophile that’s the best way I can explain what I’m hearing.

Now for some speaker porn…