A short slideshow with sound demos of my Cedar Desktop speakers version 3.0.
Playback equipment:
-Cedar Desktop Speakers
-Onkyo TX-DS-898THX Receiver
-Topping BC3 Bluetooth Decoder(LDAC)
-Galaxy Z-Flip Cell Phone(LDAC)
Recording Equipment:
-Tascam DR-2d Linear PCM Recorder(96kHz, 24 bit)
-Audio Technica AT822 Stereo Mic
Speakers were 5 feet from each other and 5 feet from the mic.
Sound Demo tracks are four free for use mp3 downloads from TuneTank.com
-Loca Dance
-Hidden Gods
-Old Street
-Energy Trap
Background music in the opening is also from tunetank.com:
-Follow Your Dreams
Conclusions:
This has been an interesting journey. The version 1.0 pair cost me about $140 to build a year and a half ago. The current driver and parts cost is around $228. Still not too expensive for what these small speakers can do. I am pleased with the final product, but to give full disclosure I do have a couple of gripes:
-They are still a little hot in the treble range. I just did not want to put a larger resistor on the tweeter circuit(27.5ohm) because it started to really alter the midrange and upper bass as well.
-They are a 4 ohm speaker. They challenged my little Topping MX3 amp. It did not clip but I had to go up to 80% volume to get some reference near field levels.
Link to my original Cedar Desktop build v.1.0:
• Cedar Desktop Speaker ...
Link to v.2.0 tweeter mod:
• Desktop Cedar Speaker ...