Has anyone else seen these yet? Dayton is upping their resistor game!
Parts Express - New From Dayton Audio - Resistors
Parts Express - New From Dayton Audio - Resistors
A cheapened Chinese knockoff of Mundorf's design, utilizing nichrome wire as the resistive element. Ugh!
Nichrome is fine, remember the voice coil is the high tempco element in the system, not the wirewound resistors in the crossover. Polishing the brass hand rails when there's a gaping hole in the hull is misplaced and rather fetishistic. In speaker systems with passive crossovers the sources of imperfection to tackle first are the driver, the driver, the driver, the driver, any inductors, and any electrolytics 🙂
Worrying about the relative merits of two low-tempco low-inductance wirewound resistor types is not getting you anywhere, they are probably the highest performing parts of the whole system, and certainly not audible.
There probably isn't any measuring equipment that could distinquish between them in fact!
Worrying about the relative merits of two low-tempco low-inductance wirewound resistor types is not getting you anywhere, they are probably the highest performing parts of the whole system, and certainly not audible.
There probably isn't any measuring equipment that could distinquish between them in fact!
I still cringe every time I see "audio resistor". And as expected, lots of marketing BS and hardly any data in the spec sheet. If it is actualy low inductance, low temp coef. , why not measure it and show the data? Oh yea because the people that buy "audio" components dont care and usually dont know what the data means anyway.
+1!!
I, for one, am so tired of all that BS too.
Yet, people who obsess and delve over such trivial things will spend more and gain nothing, except in their minds.
Same goes for those "Audio Grade" capacitors.
The leads on Mills 12W and MOX resistors are much less prone to breaking than the thin leads one finds on typical WW power resistors. I understand the irritation with audiophile marketing but there are advantages to be found if one has a need for them.
Mundorf MResist MOX (like most regular mox) have magnetic end caps Ugh 🙂 , when Dayton - do not.