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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Remedies the Beauty
Post Subject: Time for a breakPosted by Wojtek on: 11/17/2021
 Bill wrote:
You had that glorious sound with the 40 year old caps in the B2's and the Tannoy crossovers. Do you really want to move away from what they produced in your system. A good way of testing new vs. old caps would be to replace the tannoy original crossovers with your new English ones and hear the difference. With the Yamaha’s you could replace one cap at a time and see if there is any improvement or worsening. Then continue with other caps or replace the original depending on the findings. 

I'm also waiting for you to try the new crossover. Something tells me it will be wrong. The old  red 10" crossover has an impedance  matching transformer on the woofer to  match it's 4 ohm (or less impedance) to a16 Ohm tweeter and it may be run  wide open without any crossover. Tweeter  has probably variable inductor to set the preferred efficiency. Chaps from Britain probably used the circuit devised from Red 12". I never met a Brit willing to risk $400...  (potentially ruining  vintage  Tannoy Red crossover to figure out what's there and to be honest I was not willing to risk it either and I promptly sold my 10" Red's )  Replacing one cap at the time in Yamaha could take months of experiments..I think you need a few weeks of break from this to gain a proper perspective. 

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