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    On a more serious note, it is a total pain moving home with regard to the Hi Fi and I do wish you the best of luck in sorting out an acceptable sound from whatever kit you end up with.

    An I’ll have you know I got no firkin spannwers in my custom enclosures thank you very much
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    lol... thanks matey. It's a real pain moving house. So much stuff to think about.. and then hifi... jeez.

    Well, I'm going to go with these Celestions for a while but still thinking of what I can do with the Tannoys. Love em to bits.

    Nah.. your kit sounds tops matey... No spanners inside.
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    Oh I’m sry Andre, you’re quite right, it’s a stereo. Do they have these up your way, or just in mono prolly (?)

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Black Adder View Post
    Cheers.. Hmm.. your right. I think a fettle is on the cards for the crossover although I'm sure they will be fine.

    Thing is I've no idea how to do that so I'd need someone to make them for me. If you know of anyone do let me know. I could post some pics of the crossovers and ask for advice I suppose, it can't be that difficult.

    Internal foam looks brand new but is there anything out there that can be an improvement? Again, no idea if there is.

    What did you use sorbothane for?

    1. The cross is pretty easy if you can use a soldering iron. My knowledge about electronics is very basic, I've just bought a couple of books to try and get a grasp. I've even "hard-wired" the celestion cross over. Yeah, for all the guys that are super wizards at this topic, dont laugh!!! I'm only just starting out Post some picks and lets see what we have!

    2. Just shove more foam in there.

    3. I had some spare sorbothane so I attached it to the speakers top and sides and behind the drivers (tweeter and base unit) to stop vibrations from the cabinet going into the driver units. I used 1mm sorbothane but you can also use any urethane if you can get your hands on it.


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    Don't just bodge around without having an idea of what you want to do. Those Celestion engineers were'nt bloody amateurs you know and knew how much wadding/foam to put in the boxes. Too much is as bad as too little you know - been there and done it guv'nor

    Some pics of the crossovers would be nice. I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours



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    ok here is the DL10 (s2) crossover. Can anyone tell me what to replace and what with.. if anything?

    Also a pic of the bass driver... nice cast basket.



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    Hi Joe, you should definately replace the 4uf Alcap near the bottom of the picture as that nasty thing is feeding the tweeter from what i can make out

    Are these things three way? If so can you get pics of where the leads are going? A view of the rear of the PCB would be good to! Make sure you have the leads visible coming off of the PCB
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    Hi Mark.

    Yeah they are 3 way. The yellow and black go to the bass driver. The red and black (HF+ & HF-) go to the tweeter and the brown and black go to the mid range.

    Would it be better to just replace all of the caps? - Also, can these crossovers be improved at all, or I should say upgraded/updated? If so what components would I need?
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    I'd suggest that you only need to really fuss over the ones that are feeding drivers & not so much the ones in parallel There will be a capacitor feeding the midrange unit & while i'd hazard a guess & suggest it could be the 20uf cap i'd still like to see the back of the PCB so i can follow the tracks & see exactly what is going on...

    I don't want to make a mistake, so a little time from you will help in confirming things chap

    Hope that helps matey!
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    no probs.. Makes total sense Mark. I'll get a pic of the back of the board tomorrow.
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