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  • Yup I agree with you.

    I still haven’t learnt passive XOs since I knew from the beginning I will go the digital route.

    Also if you look carefully you will see the dust cap on the mids are the same shape as well, the entire voice coil and motor assembly behind them are also elliptical shaped. Hence, Ellipticor. They claim it’s revolutionary, all I can say is that I don’t have much experience with high end speakers and it sounds good to me.


  • You don’t have to do that crazy, you can absolutely create a top tier design using less expensive components.

    But yeah, it’s a simple two way ported bookshelf right now with a Dayton Ultimax UM 18 sealed 5 cu. Ft. subwoofer. The tweeter is a D2404 and the mid is a 18WE 4 ohm version. Active XO is not finalized since I keep playing around with the settings almost every week. Messing around with the slopes. Mostly looking at a 2nd order around 3000 hz.

    There is a lack of mid bass but that is a given due to the small drivers which is why I will add more drivers later on for a 3 way or 4 way.

    But since this was my second project after my subwoofer I wanted to see what it’s like before I drop insane cash on a 3/4/5 way design.

    My source is a Computer which also does all the XO using EQ APO, which feeds into an AV receiver with HDMI. The drivers are wired using individual channels so like the mods are FR AND FL on the AVR. The tweeters are SL AND SR. The AVR does no processing whatsoever. I use a UMIK-1 to measure in room response. A measurement microphone is critical IMO.

    Let me know if you need more info :) glad to help. I had the same problem, didn’t wanna drop 50K on speakers. Didn’t know what made 50K speakers so special. Took some figuring out but now I know almost everything about loudspeakers. It was worth it.