Hi there - I was kicking around the idea of making a Pure Audio Project (PAP) clone using an 8" full range with 2 15" woofers...but the x-over had me ruffled. I've never built a speaker or cross over and wasn't sure I wanted to tackle it. Plus I'm not completely convinced a FR will give me the top end I want so I was thinking of adding a tweeter/super tweeter of some kind. I was also thinking about trying to add Dirac room correction to my system. Then recently I've been reading about how far class D amps have come, and maybe thinking of trying something in that vein. Enter miniDSP's new FlexHTX; eight channel dsp with Dirac built in--talk about flexibility. So, and bear with me here....consider an active three way PAP clone using the FlexHTX as the cross over. Drivers would be two Bianco 15" drivers, a Tang Band W8 full range driver in the middle, and some sort of AMT or Ribbon tweeter mounted next to the full range, NEO 3 for example or Mundorf ($$). Amplification would come from two three channel Purifi based class D amps like Buckeye or one of the other similar ones out there. I'd run the woofers up to 400hz, the tang band from 400-8k or so and the tweeter from 8k up. With the functionality of the Flex I can do all the x-over work digitally, time alignment etc and room correction. I'd still have two channels in the x-over left over for subs if needed. I'm confident I can build the open baffle.
What do you all think of this idea? I don't love being bound to using the miniDSP's DACs...but to be honest DACs are all getting pretty damn good and the idea of getting the cross over "right" plus the in-room correction probably makes up for whatever shortcomings the onboard DACs might have.
What am I looking for? Big, open sound, excellent imagine, dynamics, clarity. Music is a wide range but mostly country rock (Grateful Dead, Bill Strings) and 80s rock and small group be-bop jazz. Really looking for that big immersive soundstage I hear people describe from open baffles without giving up the dynamic impact of high sensitivity speakers.
I'd have to liquidate most of the existing rig to fund something like this, and I don't love putting pre/dac/x-over all in one box but maybe that's the ludite in me. I keep reading/hearing great things about the clarity and transparency of these class D amps and seriously considering taking the plunge in this direction. Tell me what you think!
What do you all think of this idea? I don't love being bound to using the miniDSP's DACs...but to be honest DACs are all getting pretty damn good and the idea of getting the cross over "right" plus the in-room correction probably makes up for whatever shortcomings the onboard DACs might have.
What am I looking for? Big, open sound, excellent imagine, dynamics, clarity. Music is a wide range but mostly country rock (Grateful Dead, Bill Strings) and 80s rock and small group be-bop jazz. Really looking for that big immersive soundstage I hear people describe from open baffles without giving up the dynamic impact of high sensitivity speakers.
I'd have to liquidate most of the existing rig to fund something like this, and I don't love putting pre/dac/x-over all in one box but maybe that's the ludite in me. I keep reading/hearing great things about the clarity and transparency of these class D amps and seriously considering taking the plunge in this direction. Tell me what you think!
