Who would like a RGO 2 way monitor project?

This would be a complete diy kit, if crossover is done, do you have recommended drivers?

This sounds really interesting! I also have the H108 monitors. How would these compare?
Also, do you think there is a reason to put the Volt 228.8 woofer in the H108? Would they improve the performance?

Thanks!

interested.

Sorry been trying to relax as my pancreatitis is acting up so I’m late to reply.

This is a bit of his impression and mine combined.
They are very different, the new ATC tweeter is a much more transparent driver than the Morel, and for what it would cost if they sold it as an OEM it should be. It was also voiced and designed from the ground up to mesh with ATC’s other drivers so for a 2 way they are probably among the most consistent top to bottom. The Questeds I believe go a bit lower and the Volt is one of the few drivers where the ultra Low distortion of the ATC isn’t a complete deal breaker.
Now all of these things can be a mixed bag in the real world. The 20’s are amazing but they always make me hunger for the bigger ATC’s with the S mid or the Volt mid. The ATC 20’s are probably one of the best near field tracking monitors, they show pretty much all the warts, like in theory mains should, sometimes this can be really discouraging because they show a lot more of how much you suck.
For mixing rock and video work he bought a pair of old Event 20/20bas, the ATC’s translate pretty well but the H108’s could be thought of as a reference Quality monitor and yet translated better as an every mans speaker plus the 108’s were easier to mate with a single sub ( an older REL with line level in and Volt driver).
He uses his car system more as a reference now and is considering buying a pair of used Questeds and keeping his ATC’s.

Interested!

I've been dabbling in waveguides recently and rethinking my plans for speakers.. I have some small 3/4 dome tweeters that I had intended on putting in waveguides since 3/4 domes have better dispersion naturally, and waveguides also naturally help with the transition between tweeter and woofer dispersion.

However, I've run into a few issues, namely needing to buy a measurement setup since neither the tweeter, nor the mid-woofer I wanted to use have any existing FRD/ZMA files available that I could find to model some proto-crossovers.

I've also found a few speakers that closely resemble almost exactly what I had envisioned, and between the cost of setting up a measurement array, the time to build the boxes, model the crossovers, buy the parts, do the measurements and tweak, I'm already over half the cost of buying the speakers ready-made and without the hassle.

One thing I will say, I have absolutely found that I do NOT like metal domed tweeters and small metal-coned midranges. There is something impossible about their breakup nodes that requires a lot of crossover work to flatten, but also results in creating regions of lifelessness. DSP might snuff these better and without so much phase problems, but this is also an expensive avenue to start down.

Most seam to either love or hate the Morel, I agree with everything said above but I’ll add this first, it’s easy to work with in that it seams to take on the personality of what ever you cross it with, and it and the replacement diagrams are fing cheap.
I’m not a huge fan of metal tweets, but I do like some BE and Magnesium, biggest problem and what shows in the Focals is the woofers just seam slow and there is just this sonic disconnect between the drivers.
Wave guides, I have one simple question for almost everybody who uses waveguides these days; why in the age of CNC routers are you using cheap molded plastic waveguides that bring about their own resonance issues when you can just build up that baffle and route the thing out? The only thing worse are those crappy things on a bunch of those AMT’s everybody calls a ribbon!!