The Bihagda is my attempt at making a small standmount with higher than normal sensitivity, so that I could use it with a SET amp if such a wish arose. (I have friends who have valve amps and threaten to send one my way.)
I designed and built the speaker, heard TV soundtracks through it, liked the clean crispness and balance, then heard music, and decided in a few weeks that there was something wrong. So I designed a second crossover and built that.
To see differences clearly, I recorded a set of test tracks through the old and new crossover, keeping all other factors unchanged. I now have a set of 30+ files, each 16/48 FLAC, in each of two sets:
Each ZIP file has the same 30+ tracks, recorded through exactly the same component stack, at exactly the same volume, with speaker and mic positions unchanged. Please feel free to download the zips (about 200MB each), extract the tracks you want, and see how you like the sound.
Since this was done in a quiet office, not a professional studio, you’ll hear background noise in the recordings: I suspect the SNR is about 40-45dB. Sorry about that. Also, please ignore the track called “04-Bismillah,_Amjad_Ali–dhun_chaiti.flac” — it has very strange, loud noises in one set, so it’s useless for comparison. Each track is cut to about 90 seconds, they are not full songs. Even with the trimming, each set has almost an hour of content.
The aim, as you can guess, is to see what difference I can hear in the same track from the two sets, and to see if I can arrive at an overall preference for one set. Well, I clearly prefer the new crossover sound. Your mileage, as they say, may vary.