Eastham
More Class-A than ever!
A while ago I got a pair of Wharfedale Dovedale 3 but unfortunetely had a tweeter fail, the dome material cracked and the tweeter sound crackly and awful... So I set about finding a replacement, but this is the most information I could find on my speakers.
Given it doesn't seem to show any 1w 1m SPL level other than "Zero level" I decided to go with a pair of tweeters rated at a SPL of 90DB (Monacor DT-140's) given I feel that these Dovedales are pretty efficient. It was recently suggested to me that the Dovedales have a SPL rating of 84DB since 14 + 70 = 84DB, no idea how he came to this conclusion but I'm considering building a L-Pad to bring these tweeters down to a SPL of 84DB but using my amplifiers tone controls, turnover at 5KHz which is the crossover point of the tweeter and mid range and set the tone control at -3 which should give me about a 6DB drop, doing this made the speakers sound kinda lacking in high end.
So I was wondering if anyone had any advice for me as to finding what the SPL of my speakers is.
Given it doesn't seem to show any 1w 1m SPL level other than "Zero level" I decided to go with a pair of tweeters rated at a SPL of 90DB (Monacor DT-140's) given I feel that these Dovedales are pretty efficient. It was recently suggested to me that the Dovedales have a SPL rating of 84DB since 14 + 70 = 84DB, no idea how he came to this conclusion but I'm considering building a L-Pad to bring these tweeters down to a SPL of 84DB but using my amplifiers tone controls, turnover at 5KHz which is the crossover point of the tweeter and mid range and set the tone control at -3 which should give me about a 6DB drop, doing this made the speakers sound kinda lacking in high end.
So I was wondering if anyone had any advice for me as to finding what the SPL of my speakers is.