Status Titus 8T Speakers Installed!

[GranteedEV]

I'd have to check with Shane on the AWG of the inductor.

The mids are 6" not 4". It's the same driver as the Special Edition Signature Series but with the Beryllium cone instead of Aluminum.

Oh. I had thought in an earlier post you had said they were 4".

 

[Rickster71]

Here are some more images.

Note the inductor on the mids is more massive than most A/V receiver power supplies. The crossover in the bass box is the LPF for the subs. Shane told me with the special damping he used in my boxes, he was able to remove the resistors in the networks!

Note the tweeter motor structure (employing 6 neodymium magnets).

Looks like some nice quality components there!
I was wondering if these speakers were prototypes?
Since at their price, I would expect the cross-overs to be double sided PCB's with solder mask and silk screen... Instead of Masonite and hot glue.

 

[gene]

Looks like some nice quality components there!
I was wondering if these speakers were prototypes?
Since at their price, I would expect the cross-overs to be double sided PCB's with solder mask and silk screen... Instead of Masonite and hot glue.

These were the first production pair built. PCB boards are much less desirable than point to point connections like the ones here. You get more losses via PCB traces. You also cannot wave solder such large components to a PCB board. The Indcutor is literally the size of a transformer you find in a flagship receiver. I would take a well built hand crossover over a PCB board ANY DAY.

My Status Acoustics Decimo's also have hand built crossovers and they are still working as good as the day I got them over 10 years ago!

 

[Rickster71]

These were the first production pair built. PCB boards are much less desirable than point to point connections like the ones here. You get more losses via PCB traces. You also cannot wave solder such large components to a PCB board. The Indcutor is literally the size of a transformer you find in a flagship receiver. I would take a well built hand crossover over a PCB board ANY DAY.

My Status Acoustics Decimo's also have hand built crossovers and they are still working as good as the day I got them over 10 years ago!

Oh, you may have mentioned earlier about it being a first production piece. (and I missed it)
It's fairly common to have a few components that can't go through Wave solder or a HASL process, and have to be hand soldered. (Especially in low production runs, as I suspect these will be)
It just seemed a little out of place; at that price I don't expect to see the same cross-over methods used in a $500 pair of speakers.
I don't mean it as a put down, I'll bet they sound great... Just a little taken aback is all.

 

[jinjuku]

So which Pass Lab amp are you driving these with?

 

[gene]

Oh, you may have mentioned earlier about it being a first production piece. (and I missed it)
It's fairly common to have a few components that can't go through Wave solder or a HASL process, and have to be hand soldered. (Especially in low production runs, as I suspect these will be)
It just seemed a little out of place; at that price I don't expect to see the same cross-over methods used in a $500 pair of speakers.
I don't mean it as a put down, I'll bet they sound great... Just a little taken aback is all.

I don't know of any $500 speakers wired with Kimber TC cable and hand built with premium parts like this. Really I don't see an issue here with how these crossovers are built. These speakers are fully built and assembled locally and its a far costlier process doing it this way then to use lesser parts all mounted on a PC board.

 

[Irvrobinson]

So which Pass Lab amp are you driving these with?

It looks like an X1000.5.

 

[gene]

So which Pass Lab amp are you driving these with?

X350.5

see:https://passlabs.com/products/amplifiers/x.5/x350.5

 

[jinjuku]

I don't know of any $500 speakers wired with Kimber TC cable and hand built with premium parts like this.

I don't think that is what he meant. I think he meant that one wouldn't expect the same cost cutting assembly methods for the x-over on these as you would see on a $500 set of speakers.

I think craftsmanship is paying attention to all details. One of those being point to point assembly of the X-over and making sure each circuit is wired on it's own board.

Now wiring internally with Kimber TC is going a bit far in my book but they do have a market to sell to and a perception to maintain.

 

[Irvrobinson]

X350.5

see:https://passlabs.com/products/amplifiers/x.5/x350.5

I guessed wrong. It's just a little one.

 

[GranteedEV]

Now wiring internally with Kimber TC is going a bit far in my book but they do have a market to sell to

Gene... you're "officially" a whole market.

 

[gene]

Gene... you're "officially" a whole market.

LOL Audio is one of the few luxuries I can really indulge in.