No, not much. Alinco - nice, can't find any T &S params online though.

No prob.

I just bought a pair of super rare TESLA ARO 9408 15" drivers.  They are meant to completely outclass the Altec Lancing drivers that I have read about for years.  I can't believe I found the pair and the chap gave me a great deal on them.  So I now have all the drivers I need to start my new DIY Lampizator speakers.  Won't be starting for a few weeks yet.

I was using 3uF caps on the Vixtavox S2's. Najda was open on channel 7&8, i.e. no X/O at all.
Last night I tried using Najda as the crossover for them, as I do for the lower the driver pairs and found 1200Hz Butterworth to be the best, by ear.
The S2's have a nasty freq spike at around 800-1000Hz or so, so you need to cross with suitable slope at a point above that and it magically disappears and all is smooth. They can then truly shine with spell binding emotion, realism and dynamics.

I was struck by the smoothness of the music conveyance and superb qualities of symbols and the like.
I have compared the two before and don't recall the DSP being so clearly preferable!
In fact I had some tail off of amplitude higher up the freq range back then. I can't hear that now. Perhaps will not measure it this time

Perhaps the Cross caps I was using have seen better days / of course they were never in the big league.
Top AN and Mungdorf caps will set you back a cool £1000 to £2000 - er ' I'll get my coat '.
There are other vintage ones I would like to try but they are like hens teeth.

Hard to see how they could beat the DSP though tbh - am using DSP to do time delay etc, might as well use the X/O too.

Fun and games. Najda continues to impress many years on..

Great news Steve

I think ive said this Before simple Circuits do not make for a better sound. I for instance prefer Active Pre amps over Passive any day of the week.

I think people get this vision of actual sound going thru their Hi-Fi system. It's nothing to do with sound, that is just the end product expelled from the speakers. 

That makes a lot of Sense

I compared it to my then favourite dac, the DPA enlightenment.
I'd had many Dacs before and after that one on the search for the best. I didn't find a better sound including some fairly expensive offerings.

The first thing I did was use it as a ADC to DAC in my then existing analogue system for playing both CD and Turntable.
It was SO transparent it was a bit of a shock.
Then I used the dac capability and found I liked the dac very well.
Slightly tonally different to the DPA but a pleasing sound indeed.

Then I introduced it's DSP capabilities too

You can change the Dacs I believe, but I've never felt the need.

A long discussion on the Diyaudio forum basically concluded that there are several dac implementations out there, most important is the way the dac is integrated into the total solution rather than one type being superior to the others on paper.

In DSP terms I've only compared it to a pair of modded Behringer DCX's.
They didn't last long. Very basic SQ! All analogue was better! Even not having time alignment, and the limitations of caps and inductors etc in full range 5 way system could help the Behringer!

Today I've mostly been comparing Tidal vs my Flac files on server vs Spotify basic.

By upgrading to Jriver 22 (20 or above would have also done) the WDM plugin they've included provides a Jriver audio device in windows to which any app or music output can be fed to, importantly avoiding Windows mixer (for sound quality reasons).
This means that the stream is sent from tidal etc to Jriver where I up sample to 96KHz (unchanged if the source if above).
Doing this upsampling has always given me best sound.
Jriver then outputs to usb via WaveIO and in to Najda I2S.

So, I subbed to Tidal for a trial month. It's £20 a month btw!

I can't hear any difference in quality between Tidal and my Flacs. Listened to all my fav tracks.

Spotify sounds a bit compromised but not too bad, better using it this way in than anything I've tried before.

I'm going to get my daughter to login in to her premium account so I can try Spotify premium (320kbits/s).
I let my premium sub lapse a couple of years ago after many years and early adoption.

Having the entire Spotify catalogue again is nice.

The Spotify catalogue is quite wide and that's what I like about it. I think the Premium subscription is worth every penny and wouldn't be without it now. It's my primary source at work, on my home PC and sometimes in the car.