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I finished building the Excellent Two \u2013 M1 DXT around 4 year ago. Initially I bought the Seas woofers
\nfrom someone\u2019s unfinished project. After researching the units I realized that these are difficult to
\nimplement correctly. Thus rather than designing a configuration myself I found the design of the
\nExcellent Two as one of the few available online using this excellent little woofer. It ticked all the
\nboxes; small, simple filter setup, and high quality parts.<\/p>\n
Getting the parts was more difficult than I originally anticipated. Seas doesn\u2019t have a large presence
\nin Australia. Thus I ended up ordering the tweeters and filter parts from Europe myself.<\/p>\n
The build was straightforward, only detail missing is the exact location of the port, thus I guessed
\ndirectly behind the tweeter. I build the speaker boxes from MDF and sprayed them with acrylic car
\npaint blue metallic (see picture). IMO this works well due to their rather smallish size.<\/p>\n
The first testrun I did with the excellent two was in our 65m2 family room which has a lot of hard
\nsurfaces, I used a 30 W class A amp. The sound blow me away, very revealing with unbelievable
\ndynamics for such a small speaker; it was able to fill the room up to reasonable sound levels. Bass
\nwas very good too, obvious no subsonic heavy bass, but that\u2019s to be expected from a 4.5\u201d driver. My
\nwife and daughters were equally impressed.<\/p>\n
After the test I moved the speakers to my desktop, besides my 38\u201d monitor. Initially I heard some
\ndistortion using a cd-player, class A amp and class A pre amp. After switching channels etc. I found
\nout that one of the channels of the pre-amp had a too high bias which pushed the power transitor
\nslightly in saturation. Now this must have been like this for a long time and I never picked it up
\nbefore, even not with my Solosound Electrostatic speakers (which I love too, but they are so
\nimpractical).<\/p>\n
After fixing the pre-amp I still found the sound a bit harsh, so I bought a good quality DAC, and that
\ngave me sound I was after; clean, clear and still plenty umph for this application. So yes the speakers
\nare revealing and will show any imperfection in your equipment.<\/p>\n
I have my laptop (and cd player) connected to the DAC through an USB slot and use the Excellent
\nTwo nearly every day. Now after using them for more than 4 years I still love the Excellent Two and
\nstill like them as much as I did 4 years back. So thanks for the work you did G\u00f6ran with designing
\nthese excellent little speakers. Only issue I have is that I am sitting a bit too close to the speakers
\n(80-90 cm) but I can live with that.<\/p>\n
So thumps up for this design, and feel free to put my review on your website.<\/p>\n
Cheers,<\/p>\n
Bart G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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