coonmanx
Senior Member
LOL that everyone is trying to force you into buying new speakers when you actually want to learn something. If I had listened to the naysayers like that I would never had built three different sets of speakers. Frankly, you can get good results with repurposing. I have definitely found that to be true.Thanks guys.
I'm not going to buy new ones just yet. I'm in it for the learning experience and the pleasure of "making stuff work". Can anyone point me to good documentation on crossover- what is it and why do I need to worry about it.. I thought I'd be removing 2 wires from current drivers, then resoldering those to the new drivers (no talking about structural modifications to the box itself). Is there another (mandatory) component inside that I haven't seen? Is it something that definitely needs to be replaced?
Apologies for my flood of questions and thank you so much for taking the time to respond and comment!
Ido
A good place to start might be here. This site is a wealth of knowledge. Basically what you should know about the crossover is that is splits the frequencies so that different parts of the sound spectrum gets handled by different parts of the speaker (wooofer, midrange and tweeter). The woofer handles the low frequencies, the midrange handles the middle frequencies and then the tweeter handles the highs.
You would have to take a look at that crossover to see how it is built. But if you can match the sensitivity of new drivers to the old ones and they cover the same frequency range then there should not be any issues. As for how it will sound... well you have to just try it and see. Unless you are going to invest in a whole lot of equipment. It's a journey of sorts, understanding speakers. Some of it is fairly simple and some more complex.
This would be a good place to start and feel free to ask questions if you don't understand something.
http://www.mh-audio.nl/Loudspeaker.html