#1 Edingdale GT, the ultimate Edingdale? Probably
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 11:04 am
Close friends of mine will know that since Christmas I have been on a bit of a downer with little interest in anything. At one point I contemplated giving up building audio and selling up my stock of speakers. I must admit to having no enthusiasm at all to build anything. Winter weather - cold and damp hasn't helped but I had got myself in a right low ebb situation. This retirement lark is not all its made up to be, or wasn't working for me.
Lynn, my good lady, did her best to get me out of this depression and together with a few long chats to Scott and other friends eventually got me out of my doldrums and today I am back with the living, at least that is to build some new speakers.
One of my chats with Scott reminded me of a ultimate Edingdale speaker we talked about some time ago. SB Acoustics have recently been making some rather interesting and very good state-of-the-art midbass drivers and tweeters under their Satori range. One tweeter that peaked my interest was a brand new Beryllium Done tweeter. Not cheap but the reports were rather encouraging. So a phone call to Jerry at Falcon Acoustics and an order was placed for a pair. These are the actual tweeters:
Here is the datasheet: http://www.sbacoustics.com/index.php/do ... view/1262/
I have made some progress on the Edingdale GT build:
And for you Apple users:
Anyway, Thursday last week the postman delivered the tweeters. As I couldn't wait until I had finished the new speaker build to be able to listen to these tweeters my thoughts harped back to my NORGE speakers that currently house the Satori midbass units to be used in the Edingdale GT speakers but with the standard Satori ring dome tweeter. The new Beryllium dome tweeters are an exact drop in for the ring domes but I realised there would be some need to change the existing XO circuit . A quick phone call to Scott regards using these as a test mule for the Beryllium dome tweeters resulted in just three changes to component values of the existing HF XO circuit and I am gob smacked the results. These are something special. The best dome tweeter I have ever heard, or not heard as Scott puts it. I'm not good with descriptions of how things sound in comparison to earlier versions but since I have carried out the mods to the NORGE speakers I have not done any further work on the new speaker build. I have been mesmerized in front of the modified speakers going through my catalogue of currently favourite music. They are that good.
And for you Apple users:
Lynn, my good lady, did her best to get me out of this depression and together with a few long chats to Scott and other friends eventually got me out of my doldrums and today I am back with the living, at least that is to build some new speakers.
One of my chats with Scott reminded me of a ultimate Edingdale speaker we talked about some time ago. SB Acoustics have recently been making some rather interesting and very good state-of-the-art midbass drivers and tweeters under their Satori range. One tweeter that peaked my interest was a brand new Beryllium Done tweeter. Not cheap but the reports were rather encouraging. So a phone call to Jerry at Falcon Acoustics and an order was placed for a pair. These are the actual tweeters:
Here is the datasheet: http://www.sbacoustics.com/index.php/do ... view/1262/
I have made some progress on the Edingdale GT build:
And for you Apple users:
Anyway, Thursday last week the postman delivered the tweeters. As I couldn't wait until I had finished the new speaker build to be able to listen to these tweeters my thoughts harped back to my NORGE speakers that currently house the Satori midbass units to be used in the Edingdale GT speakers but with the standard Satori ring dome tweeter. The new Beryllium dome tweeters are an exact drop in for the ring domes but I realised there would be some need to change the existing XO circuit . A quick phone call to Scott regards using these as a test mule for the Beryllium dome tweeters resulted in just three changes to component values of the existing HF XO circuit and I am gob smacked the results. These are something special. The best dome tweeter I have ever heard, or not heard as Scott puts it. I'm not good with descriptions of how things sound in comparison to earlier versions but since I have carried out the mods to the NORGE speakers I have not done any further work on the new speaker build. I have been mesmerized in front of the modified speakers going through my catalogue of currently favourite music. They are that good.
And for you Apple users: