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Thanks for the reply/info Jeff, do you happen to have any pics showing the Audioquest wiring? Was just trying to figure out exactly how you connected them, being their multiconductor cable & sounds like you're using more than one run to a driver?
Buy the Rocket 88 without braid so you can zip it apart more easily. I can get you some if you otherwise can't find it. Also, decide where the MR/treble x-over is going to live; mine's on the floor behind the speaker. Then...run only the treble half of the cable to the tweeter, run only the 'bass' half of the cable to the lower-MR driver, and run another full (double) run to the MR driver. This assumes your AP has 2 MR drivers and it's NOT an MTM configuration.
I'm using a bunch of Audioquests cables in my setup (also a mix with some Tara Labs), so know of their product & have been happy with their performance.
The replacement LF x over is an Audio Physic unit, ordered direct. My HF/MR x over is installed in the MR/tweeter cabinet as well (took a peak when I got the speakers). If I'm following you you're saying if there are two caps in series with the tweeter & use the Sonicap Gen 1 on the second cap & then install a platinum in parallel with that? Yes for BOTH of the tweeter caps, but start with one if you want.
Is that adding the better Platinum cap in parallel replacing a cap that's already in parallel from the stock configuration NO
or is that adding an additional cap? Yes.
If it's adding an additional cap, what are the benefits of doing this vs the stock configuration? When paralleling caps with better ones, one gets some of the benefits of the better cap without spending the money for a much-larger better cap.
Also curious as to why not the platinum cap (which sounds like it's the better cap) for the replacement of the cap that's in series? The Platinums are very expensive and not made in large values. See
http://www.soniccraft.com/sonicap_platinum.htm
I mostly listen to what I would consider "new rock" music. I know that's probably not the best music choice to show all the strengths of these speakers but its what I like
Some of the artists I listen to are fairly instrumental & on better recordings you can really hear the benefits of these speakers. On the other hand, their are some recordings I listen to that aren't so great. With listening to this type of music, is it still a good idea to think about higher grade x-over components? Or will it just allow me to hear alot more things that I don't necessarly want to hear? Only you can anser that one. Lots of reviewers of hi-end stuff like rock, so why not hear it thru better-sounding equipment?