{"id":1104,"date":"2011-11-13T16:52:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T16:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2011-11-19T22:38:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T22:38:40","slug":"excellence-two-%e2%80%93-mini-monitor-construction-update2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"Excellence Two \u2013 Mini Monitor Construction Update2!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Excellence-Two-Mini-Monitor.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1106 aligncenter\" title=\"Excellence Two - Mini Monitor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Excellence-Two-Mini-Monitor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Excellence-Two-Mini-Monitor.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Excellence-Two-Mini-Monitor-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a>I have measured the loudspeaker with my DEQX pre-amp equipment and made various cross-over configurations in order to get a sense of how the drivers behave and integrates with each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I use the DEQX in a quick setup to break-in drivers and so far I\u2019ve played about 10 hours of music through them and the result is really promising \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve tried the following cross-over frequencies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1500Hz 48db\/octave phase-linear filters.<\/li>\n<li>1750Hz 48db\/octave phase-linear filters.<\/li>\n<li>2000Hz 48db\/octave phase-linear filters.<\/li>\n<li>2250Hz 48db\/octave phase-linear filters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A low cross-over point is clearly the way to go with these drivers. Right now I favor the 1750Hz cross-over point, but this might probably change after I\u2019ve done frequency and distortion measurements and starting to simulate the passive cross-over.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Deqx-Excellence-Two-Mini-Monitor.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1105\" title=\"Deqx Excellence Two - Mini Monitor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Deqx-Excellence-Two-Mini-Monitor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"685\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a>The picture shows the 2m tweeter-axis 15deg measurement I\u2019ve used for the quick DEQX cross-over. The measurement is valid from 400Hz. Notice the very mild effect of the baffle diffraction at the 15deg off-axis measurement.<\/p>\n<p>The mid-woofers have a nice even frequency response and the expected 10kHz cone break-up is clearly visible. The two mid-woofers are a close match of each other.<\/p>\n<p>The tweeters have a nice even frequency response and the sample 2 has a slightly higher sensitivity and a rising top-end response compared to sample 1. In the cross-over region they are a close match and the overall difference is small and isn\u2019t noticeable in listening tests.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have measured the loudspeaker with my DEQX pre-amp equipment and made various cross-over configurations in order to get a sense of how the drivers behave and integrates with each other. I use the DEQX in a quick setup to break-in drivers and so far I\u2019ve played about 10 hours of music through them and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audioexcite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}