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Sadly no.... I still have not finished the blind testing of the cooked vs. uncooked caps, and until i finish that, I can't do the brand vs. brand test. To add insult to injury, we're moving this...

4ohm according to the schematic

That's a great cap....it gets high praise around here for the older Polks. I originally went with the Jantzen Superior Z's for my tweeter cap upgrade. I think they're awesome, but very pricey.
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Burn-in test setup from last weekend --

Used a mono signal and one speaker and flipped back and forth between a cooked cap and a new cap (same brand, same value). I had 8 people sit thru flips on...

Plain old 1/8" hardboard on these. When I decide to stuff them back in the box, they will be on a much smaller piece without all the binding post bling obviously.

Not yet. I have CC, Sonicaps and Daytons to test eventually, but I only burned in half of the caps so I could do a "burn-in" test. I'm testing to see if listeners can tell the difference between a...

I’ve been listening to these Monitor-40’s for several days now with the rebuilt crossovers and I have to say there is indeed an improvement (keep the flame-throwers on hold please).
Keep in mind,...

Thanks.....I know what you mean. In the next couple weeks I hope to put these through a thorough DBT, swapping between the 4 sets of high-pass caps I have (Jantzen, Clarity, Sonicap, Dayton), so see...

Ooops....I guess my post is a bit late, but FWIW - http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1569601&postcount=13

I too have had good experience with damping stamped driver baskets. I...

Here's how I did mine. First of all, I did not waste my money on Dynamat, but of course that's completely up to you.

I use Peel & Seal

It's very similar to Dynamat, but a fraction of the...

Wishing you a speedy recovery Ben - It's not the same without you whipping my noob ass into shape. :wink:

Spent some time terminating cables to hookup the now crossover-less Monitor-40's to their new external crossovers. Only had time earlier to listen to some Pink Floyd for about 20 minutes or so with...

CAPS OFF THE COOKER TODAY

I took (HALF) the caps off the rig this afternoon, so that equates to 193 hours of cooking time. I labeled them to easily distinguish from their uncooked brethren.
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I'm doing temporary connections because I have not made up my mind whether these are going to stay external after the tests or get shaved down and put back in the Monitor-40's. As is, they will...

I got these speakers for just over $100. I initially swapped out the high-pass NPE and mylar bypass cap with a Jantzen Superior Z. I was very happy with the improvement and decided to rebuild the...

The rebuild and the OEM Polk XO

Not gonna miss the NPE's

http://i521.photobucket.com/albums/w339/bkeane1259/SPEAKER%20STUFF/IMG_0519b.jpg

I drilled my boards and did some preliminary layout work on the crossovers. Gonna solder 'em up later tonight.

Component layout:
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Here's what I use for basket dampening. I use this exclusively for auto installs as well for trunks, doors, floorboards and decks. It's very similar to Dynamat, but a fraction of the cost. Lowes...

Thanks. This has been quite a learning experience so far!!

Half of the caps have been cooking since Monday morning. So far so good. The dummy load resistor is behaving just like it should --...

I'm rebuilding the entire XO's for my Monitor-40's. I'm also running a test on four different pairs of caps for the hi-pass section of the XO to determine which capacitor sounds the best. ...All...

Cooking half the caps for 125 hours (till Saturday night). Then I plan to do a DBT with these three pairs (Clarity, Sonicap and Dayton) to see if we can tell the difference between the cooked caps...

I will get these mounted to boards this week with binding posts in the tweeter hi-pass section to enable easy swapping of the testing caps.

New XO mock-up done and tested - looks right - sounds right.

http://i521.photobucket.com/albums/w339/bkeane1259/SPEAKER%20STUFF/IMG_0509b.jpg
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Here are the OEM components for the Monitor-40. All of these will be replaced save for the tweeter air core. The mylar bypass will be eliminated.

Anyone ever try any of the sound waves on this site?

http://www.burninwave.com/