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Dennis Murphy
Audioholic General
First, a big tip of the hat and thanks to GranteedEV for his excellent responses. Between rehearsals and building Philharmonics, I don't have as much time as I would like to keep up with questions. He's da man. I can understand why people are a little suspicious about my using an $80 midrange when I've been associated with designs that use the much more expensive Accuton midrange. Between my and GranteedEV's responses, I hope you can see why I chose the Neo8 planar. Again, if I thought the Accuton would perform better in the Philharmonics, I would offer it. I would be happy to provide my measurements of the Accuton in the SoundScape cabinet and Neo8 in the Philharmonic cabinet, and I'll try to find time to post those tomorrow. As Granteed has pointed out, all that matters is how a given driver measures in the cabinet that houses it. And also how it measures after filtering from the crossover. As for the location of the crossover, both the Chinese cabinets and the custom Phil3 cabinets have a separate crossover compartment in the bottom of the bass module. If need be, it could be detached from the bottom plate and sent to me for service. But that shouldn't be necessary--there's not much that can go wrong with a crossover unless the user does something really dumb. Which would never happen, because the customer is always right.well that'd be a big waste of a good pair of accurate speakers like philharmonics...