I have completed testing on 2 sliced Aurasound NS6-255-8a samples and decided to bury the data here. These are unworthy of their own thread. Whoever it was that convinced me to buy these must be deaf.
3 NS6s baselined showing 3rd order distortion-
The slit technique definitely works for suppressing the break-up.
The slits destroyed the peak completely, and reduced the related 3rd and 5th order distortions by the same 8-10 db.
Sample-5
What it did not do is make the driver into something I would want to use. I can't stand to listen to them raw or modified.
There is one big problem that I may or may not address in this round of drivers. Distortion below 1k rises when testing the NS6 at high volumes. This indicates that the glue is too soft(which I suspect), the gap is too wide, or the floppy-coned NS6 is just not suited to this mod.
MY advice so far- sell the NS6s, keep the NSBs, and cut everything but don't glue yet!
Originally posted by Tin_Ears
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