New RS52 3 way *PIC*

[LouC]

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Just finished a three way with an 8" Audax, RS52 dome mid, HiVi RT1F ribbon and a rearfiring ND20F. some buyout drivers, but a pretty nice box. Finished with Duratex

[dougb]

Lookin' good, Lou. I like the look and the name is perfect. Did you design-in the BBC in the frequency response, or did it just happen?

Does the rear tweeter add a noticeable difference to the sound? I had plans to use the cousin to the one you used in the 4-ways I built last year, but when I mocked it up during voicing, I didn't notice a significant change. So I left it out. I was even going to use two DPDT switches to select from three different XO frequencies and three different attenuations.

[gc1]

Thse are really sharp... that finish is very "earthy", would go nicely with a variety of furnishings/etc.
I wish I'd picked up some of those Audax, sure could use them now.
Nice!!

GC

> Just finished a three way with an 8"
> Audax, RS52 dome mid, HiVi RT1F ribbon and a
> rearfiring ND20F. some buyout drivers, but a
> pretty nice box. Finished with Duratex

[LouC]

> Lookin' good, Lou. I like the look and the
> name is perfect. Did you design-in the BBC
> in the frequency response, or did it just
> happen?

No it was concious. Actually tweaking the mid is fairly easy, figured I could take it out if necessary.

> Does the rear tweeter add a noticeable
> difference to the sound? I had plans to use
> the cousin to the one you used in the 4-ways
> I built last year, but when I mocked it up
> during voicing, I didn't notice a
> significant change. So I left it out. I was
> even going to use two DPDT switches to
> select from three different XO frequencies
> and three different attenuations.

The closer the boxes are to the backwall, the more dramatic the effect becomes. Four feet out and the effects are minimal. The attenuator helps a lot with fine tuning, the phase change does virtually nothing.

[cptomes]

> Just finished a three way with an 8"
> Audax, RS52 dome mid, HiVi RT1F ribbon and a
> rearfiring ND20F. some buyout drivers, but a
> pretty nice box. Finished with Duratex

Those Audax buyouts are very impressive. I put two of them in ~2ft^3 boxes as the bases for line arrays of NSB and the same tweeter you've used on the back of these. The bass is really good, almost as deep as when I had a single Peerless 8" CSX in the oversize box, but much more output.