Altering the Exodus Audio LCR Kit (1 Viewer)

[Jeremy Schulz]

I like the the design of the Exodus Audio LCR Kit but I already have a pair of GR-T1 tweeters, how would it sound if I replaced the usher 9950C-15 with those?

The frequency response looks a little smoother than the 9950C-15 also both start rolling off at the same frequencies. But the GR-T1 have a little better sensitivety than the 9950C-15.

What do you guys think?
Thanks

 

[MarkRoberts]

If you order the kit your gonna have the ushers so why not use them? Or are you planning on ordering the individual pieces? If you are I don't think you can get the x-over seperate.
Order a couple more extremis and make yourself some surrounds with the GR-T1.

 

[Michael R Price]

There is a very good chance the Ushers will sound better. It might be a bother trying to come up with a crossover modification to substitute tweeters. The higher sensitivity does not matter since it would just have to be padded down to match the woofers. Just use the GR tweeters in a different design if you want. (The frequency response looks smoother because Danny applied more smoothing to the graphs. )

 

[Jeremy Schulz]

I was planning on buying the speakers seperate and building the crossovers myself and notices jsut how expensive those ushers are. I am already well over my budget so I was hoping to substitute the tweeters. Is there any other designs on the web that use the extremis, WR125S and maybe a cheaper set of tweeters? Maybe a 3-way MTM with just 1 extremis?

 

[MarkRoberts]

Jeremy,
CSS has a full range version of the 4.5" Maybe worth looking into.They are $150.00 a pair. No usher needed and the x-over would a little easier to build 2-way vs. 3-way. Just a thought.
Just out of curosity why aren't you going with the kit? I added up the driver cost and ended up with $315.15 w/o shipping(except for the extremis). I would wager when you buy all the x-over components you will be over the cost of the kit($395.00).
Have you already started buying the parts? If not whats your budget? Not trying to be nosey. Just wondering if maybe the kit 261's would be more in your budget.

 

[Jeremy Schulz]

I have been eyeing that kit. The kit41 I beleive you are talking about. I like it but for some reason having the WR125S runs fullrange bothers me. They are exactly in my price range and is what I am probably going to get.

THe sad thing is I love adire products and think the extremis looks like an awesome speaker but any designs with that speaker gets me right out of my price range. I think I will get the kit41 and play around with that and then maybe get an extremis and try it out in my system and play around until I get it the way I like it.

Currently I have the JBL n24 speakers and just got an onkyo 502, so I am going from a 5.1 to a 7.1 system and wanted new fronts to go along with the JBL's until I can talk the wife into a new system.

I also have a tempest, don't remember what the size of the box I built and what it is tuned to, I built it several years ago and would have to look it up.

Thanks for the advise evryone.

 

[MarkRoberts]

Actually I was refering to the new FR125. You could use two extremis and one FR125 in a MTM. FR125's are going for 150.00 a pair,just for the drivers.You would be 350.00 just for the drivers. So I doubt that will help.
Have you thought about the Kit61? They are supposed to be quite impressive. They are 438.00 a pair. You could then always move them to surround duty later. When you have enough scratch for the LCR's.