Alpair 10M / FT96H speakers

It’s been a long time since I haven’t tweaked my speakers. After more than 9 years I decided to change the drivers after falling in love with the Alpair 10M from Mark Audio. I listened to my friend Andy’s system (4P1L PSE driving the Alpairs) and decided to get hold of them.

A simple upgrade

As I don’t have much time left for DIY audio these days, I needed a simple solution. I couldn’t build a new set of speakers despite the love I have for some horn-type designs. Bringing new speakers was out of the question, so I had to modify my existing boxes to replace the FE167E. Sadly they didn’t fit straight on, so my friend Tony made me a pair of adapter boards to fit these. Made of MDF I painted them in grey:

Altair 10M Gen3 with FT96H horn tweeter
Altair 10M Gen3 with FT96H horn tweeter

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Horn tweeter addition

Improving the treble response

I always found my FE167E full-range driver bass reflex speakers to be lacking of the fullest treble. I clearly knew it was a compromise of this full-range driver, but after 3 years of listening to them, I decided to do an upgrade to the system. The FT96H horn tweeters are a  nice match for the price range I was looking for:

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