Another pair of EPI speakers have come my way, this time the EPI 120C. This is the big brother of the EPI 100 with a 10" woofer and bigger cabinets.
So far they sound like the classic EPI 100 sound but with fuller deeper bass.
This set of speakers, although in pretty good condition need some regular EPI upgrades.
It is well documented that the internals are the weak spot in otherwise great drivers that work perfectly together. Humanspeakers does a great write up on changing out the spring clips, internal wiring, the capacitor and bypassing the tweeter level control.
This pair had the woofer re foamed which is not up to the standards of this Speakerholic. Who ever did the job cut a larger surround and spliced it to make a 10" leaving a awful overlap and air leakage, this will have to be redone.
So far they sound like the classic EPI 100 sound but with fuller deeper bass.
This set of speakers, although in pretty good condition need some regular EPI upgrades.
It is well documented that the internals are the weak spot in otherwise great drivers that work perfectly together. Humanspeakers does a great write up on changing out the spring clips, internal wiring, the capacitor and bypassing the tweeter level control.
This pair had the woofer re foamed which is not up to the standards of this Speakerholic. Who ever did the job cut a larger surround and spliced it to make a 10" leaving a awful overlap and air leakage, this will have to be redone.
One nice thing is this pair of speakers already has the brace from the front baffle to the rear baffle, something that the Advent 5012 did not have but I added to.
Other EPI speakers that I have written about that have come my way are the pink home made ones, this pair of Genesis 22, this pair of EPI 100 Plus T/E of which I yanked the drivers out and put in CTS ALNICO 8" woofers with CTS Phenolic Ring tweeters, which is an Acoustic Research AR4X clone. This little pair of EPI 70C which got a Dayton 6.5" woofer replacement, this original pair of EPI M100's and last but not least the Advent 2002's that got the EPI inverted dome swap.
I have a pair of 120C that I like very much. Have them hooked up to a Denon AVC-A1D, and paired with Monitor Audio Radius 90s and a 12-inch Velodyne sub. The EPIs image better, and obviously have better bass extension and air. The Monitor Audios are more nimble, especially making percussion sound more natural. It's kind of a strange pairing, but it works for me.
ReplyDeleteHey, could you provide any information on original 10" woofer specs?
ReplyDeleteBest to go over to this site for more spec details.
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