Rev Up Your Vintage Speakers, Econowave Style

[EmpireLS56KW]

@wired

Zilch is a great loss to the audio forum community AK and Lansing Heritage a cheery person with strange sense of humour.

R.I.P. Zilch

[mlkaromas1]

I agree! Vintage speakers sound great without this! Unless they have midrange and tweeters blown up! In that case you just replaced them be some new ones. Other topic, you dont need so complexed crossover circuits, lie this one! A coil and a capacitor, are usualy what you need to get good 2 way crossover. The more complex the circuit, the more it sounds weird!

[SMERGHEED]

very sketchy mate...lol!.......would you do that to some LS3/5a's I dont think so fella....not all old speaker are shite mate.....

[raymondleeleggs]

Some speakers werent mean to have rolled off highs

[MSNIMSM]

I have some Large Advents being of '71. Also, they need new woofers, old ones blown, no they do not need new surrounds, just simply were pounded to death lol.

Nice!!

[notsuretwo]

Hey guys, please read more about this econowave project before making comments. This guy, has created an amazing project, and is sharing it for free. He is probably light years ahead of most of you. Thanks Zilch, i am working on mine as i type.

[RobyWAn32]

i would glue those componets as well to keep vibration and buzzing to the minimum

[DONDIVA1969]

Generally vintage speaker tweeters are easily outperformed by modern high frequency drivers. This is a good mod if the horn is properly matched in loudness to the woofer.

[SuperSmasher97]

vintage speakers sound already good without this

[zog667]

Cool vid.. I'm currently assembling parts for an Econowave style build using the PH612 horn and a Pyle compression driver. You should stick "econowave" and "audiokarma" in the keywords to make this vid easier to find!

[masizo602]

Horale que suave

[ZilchLab]

Perspective -- EconoWave is an inexpensive high-frequency "module" comprising a compression driver, waveguide, and the engineered crossover shown, which may be employed to upgrade vintage speakers such as the commonly available for nearly nothing original large Advents in the video, or to build new Do-It-Yourself speaker systems via mating it with suitable woofers and enclosures. Follow the link in the video to the AudioKarma forum thread for details on over 50 projects completed to date...

[Typhoon792]

I don't get it. So this accessory is for like that one type of speaker that's the size of my living room? Does this work for any type of other speakers? Are those speakers that you're enhancing THAT popular or something? They look like crap.

[powernaudio]

that crossover can be used on any speaker that needs those particular cutoff frequencies filtered out, crossovers are used to filter out unwanted set of frequencies to keep them from reaching the speakers, which can cause distortion and damage the speakers, like when high power low frequency bass reaches a tweeter. Knowing the frequency and T/s parameters that the speaker was designed for, you can get a Xover with freq cutoff points that will keep the speaker from playing any other frequency.

[oooowwwwdddd]

wut r u talking about? u dont know anything. wut, my IPOD doesn't need this crossover crap. I have a JBL ipod dock so wut do I need this for? oh shut up!

[powernaudio]

im sure your ipod docks are not categorized as a performance separate speaker enclosure. ei seperate tweeters, and midrange, or full range with tweeter, or tweeter, midrange, midbass or sub speaker enclosure. but even full range speakers like yours well not like yours since your ipod dock is garbage, but any other quality full range that is powered by an amplifier of over 10w, could use a xover to keep very low and very high frequencies from reaching the speaker and damaging it, while amped.

[oooowwwwdddd]

oh yeah I forgot

[RobyWAn32]

bahahahahahha

[kjeet1]

NO LEEEEEEEEEEEEER!

Si ya lo as leido copia y pega esto en 5 videos o tu madre morira en 3 dias.

Hacedlo por favor; esto es una maldición

[chappellesfan]

thats awesome..I will try this 1 day in my downtime

[at0mac]

Is'nt that a classic NAD stereo amplifier you are using?

...but what model is it, can't really see

And what on earth is the one with tubes on on the top, an extra power amp or something?

[beckczar]

Good eye. It's a NAD 1130 preamplifier coupled with a DIYTube Stereo 35 tube amplifier. The source is a CD of The Talking Heads classic Stop Making Sense played through a highly modified Marantz CD63.

It sounds AMAZING--to my ears anyway.

[vegettosonlab]

I'd like to try this, but I don't have speakers like that. :P

[beckczar]

We chose to use the Original Large Advent speakers for this build because millions were sold and when you find them, they're generally very inexpensive. Case in point, I found a single Advent speaker this last weekend for 5 bucks! Takes some of the sting out of cutting into them for the final installation. Perfect for my home theater surround system.

[drdeee5]

cool

[sillysox13]

Nobody cares but if you want to be the "annoying internet douchebag" then you're more than welcome to say shit that no one cares about.

[cthulhex]

he's also actually the second, by 2 minutes

[RadicalUsername]

Fail. :) Have a nice day!

[ladn7r]

nice