Anarchy 150 / Peerless TM: Ares

[Pete Schumacher]

Hi guys. Thought I'd start a thread on a new build. Hopefully I can have this ready for KYDIY next month. This features that new Peerless Aluminum dome and the new 150mm Anarchy woofer. Erich sent me the parts and they arrived today, along with a couple of roughed MDF enclosures. I loaded up one of them and took some sweeps so I could get a crossover modeled up in order to get some parts in the shopping cart.

First off, this tweeter looks pretty darn nice. Measurements show a distortion profile that would let you cross at 1500Hz without a problem. While not the smoothest response on this baffle, an L-pad, two caps and an inductor produced a very smooth overall response, and the woofer only required 4 parts, an inductor and parallel cap to notch the high frequency resonance, and a cap and resistor to provide the roll off required to get a 4th order LR at 2200Hz.

I'll start voicing this as soon as the parts arrive. In the meanwhile, have a look at the Ares and the sim.

[kenny_k]

If it sounds like the MTM at IOWA----Winner!

[ceiol]

Looking good. Will Erich be offering a speaker kit for these once you finalize the design?

[ani_101]

what is the box size, tuning and F3? I agree the Anarchy MTM was really good at IOWA. Looking forward to hearing this at Kentucky

[Pete Schumacher]

These will be a kit. Probably have the MTM version as well. The 7" "Apollo" that was at Iowa will also have a TM version using a single 4 Ohm woofer.

This little guy has f3 near 42Hz in a .4cf cabinet tuned to 45Hz.

Here's a shot of the specs I measured on the woofer a while back so you can play with your own sims. I put some up here.

[Pete Schumacher]

I kludged together a crossover from a bunch of spare parts just so I could start listening. I'm enjoying them so far. Here's what the measured response looks like. I'll probably be doing some tweaking for the next week or so. The bit of peaking around 800-1000 is something that should be addressed.

[hongrn]

Hey Pete, does it look like that Peerless tweeter faceplate will fit flush on a SEOS-8? Thanks.

Hong

[Pete Schumacher]

Hey Pete, does it look like that Peerless tweeter faceplate will fit flush on a SEOS-8? Thanks.

Hong

Not quite. The chamfer is a little bit wider than the opening of the SEOS-8 which may mean it could cause some response anomalies. I may try getting a sweep with it to see how bad. But perhaps it could be removed completely.

[Pete Schumacher]

Did some tweaking. I thought the previous attempt was just a little thin overall. Coming along nicely.

[Mike220]

Your cranking out the designs recently Pete! I hope to hear these and the bigger mtms at some point ive been wanting to use anarchys for some time now.

[Pete Schumacher]

Your cranking out the designs recently Pete! I hope to hear these and the bigger mtms at some point ive been wanting to use anarchys for some time now.

The little Anarchy have turned out to be chips off the old block. Bass is excellent, mids are clean and clear and they're easy to work with. Woofer XO turned out to use only 4 parts, tweeter only 5.

And that Peerless tweeter is surprisingly nice for something so inexpensive. I'm crossing at 2200Hz LR4 right now and don't think that will change. But this tweeter could easily go to 1500Hz.

Come to CKYDIY next weekend. I'll bring Apollo and Ares both.

[Pete Schumacher]

I've been enjoying these little guys for quite a while now. But after all this time I thought it needed another tweak to the XO. Over time, bass response came up a bit so I went ahead and reduced the baffle step compensation a little . . . and I may even reduce it a little more, but this is sounding pretty nice at the moment. I'll probably try the next version after this week is up just to make sure the balance is good. This is 1/6th octave smoothing in-room. I may be able to get about 1dB more back from BSC but I'm not sure I'd want to just yet.

[ceiol]

anxiously awaiting the kit from Erich!

Looks like a great speaker

[stephenmarklay]

Going to have to try this. Curious if that little woofer would work sealed?

[rkeman]

Going to have to try this. Curious if that little woofer would work sealed?

This would be an excellent idea. A shorter thinner box and minimal baffle step correction could be useful for on-wall surrounds or on-ceiling applications.