![]() I first became aware of Snell when a friend of mine acquired a pair of A IIs which I heard in the early 1980s. At first I thought maybe they were trying to 'smooth out' the electrolytics with other values, but it looks like Peter Snell or whomever was just using whatever he had on hand. In one speaker they might have used an electrolytic and a poly cap to get 5 mf, in the other of the pair it might be three elctrolytics. One thing I noticed about the crossovers in Snells is that the total capacitance is the main thing used in their matching, and not specific values or kinds of caps or anything like that. But then I'm already using refoamed/reconed drivers, so maybe Snell's careful matching isn't going to make much difference. Even if they don't look the same, I'm hoping the new tweeters will match the speaker to a certain degree. It's hard to keep track of all the driver manufacturers, what with them getting bought out over the years, maybe Culver now owns Tonegan or something like that. I got stuck covering for shipping, too, since the UPS Store says they can't ship billing to a UPS account no. ![]() Just got the woofers they mistakenly sent me back in the mail. (Hubby doesnt understand all this - he still likes his blow-the-house-down Cerwin vegas!) - Jill Would love to have an original original pair of Snells with the first tweeters, but have to say I still love these JIIs. Quite possibly a high incidence of tweeter blow out on JIIs led to this change(?) but at the expense of dispersion in the affected freq range (?). I noted on old spec sheets that the JIIIs have a higher crossover point than JIIs. Now they match very well subjectively and imaging is precise. Decided to update the other Culver to the Vifa. Listening to each in mono, I slightly prefered the older Culver, but either one was good. Imaging was vague given their different freq responses. As logically expected, they were close but not identical. Figured I'd compare them and also assess imaging before committing to changing the other. I made the change and now had one side with Vifa and one side with Culver. The newer Vifa setup is the only one now avail thru Snell. Snell apparently had changed from Culver (as on my eBay purchase) to Vifa sometime during production run (with entirely different crossover components to go with it). This came with its own crossover (Snell practice is to match each speaker to reference standard rather than matched pairs). Ordered replacement tweeter kit from Snell (now in Boston Acoustics building in Peabody MA). Bought pair of JIIs off ebay, one blown tweeter (disclosed in the auction). Store said they'd call me when it was fixed, but it disappeared forever and I ended up buying entirely different speakers (Icon Lumen). The JII was Tweeter Etc store return, but had a blown tweeter. Auditioned both ~1990 right at transition. From looking at them, they look very similar to the II series. I understand the KII and EIII and JIII are also well liked by many, but I've never heard any of them. For example, I also own a pair of JM Reynaud Twins MK III, a very popular monitor, and I'm realizing I prefer my Snell monitors to them, which sound more balanced, coherent, and open, if also a little bleached (this is the best word I can come up with for what seems to me the major shortcoming of the classic Snell sound, at least in so far as I can hear it). I've heard many fancier speakers, but the Snell sound is sort of my base: I measure all of the others against it, and I usually find them lacking in some way. I'm not sure about the C and the Q - maybe someone else knows? Carl? I'm almost sure he's wrong.) This would also be the A, the AII, and the AIII. (I ordered a pair of replacement tweeters from Snell the other day and the salesman told me the JII's were a Kevin Veocks design. This would be the K, the J, the E, the EII and the JII. I'm not sure how others feel, but I consider the Peter Snell designs to be the 'classic' Snells. These are stock except for having been refoamed and I find them surprisingly good speakers (18"). ![]() I also just bought a pair of the littlest early Snells, the K's. I've used a modified (rebuilt xover) set of EII's for three years, and I also own a pair of JII's, which I'm currently restoring. I'm real happy to see a Snell discussion forum started here.
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