Ninja Notes
Time to soup-up those diminutive power houses!
The ELT525 line was a winner right out of the gate. High quality cabinetry, quality drive units and even quality crossover networks. In fact, for the price paid for the speaker, they are some of the best we've seen.
The all-important network design is top-notch too. You might ask what is there left for us to do then? It's really the other way around. What CAN'T we do? When you have a strong foundation to work with, you can extract some amazing results. Bravo to Danny Richie for the network design and another bravo to the driver vendor for building such competent components.
Now here comes the good stuff... With the Ninja Master upgrade and NoRez the speaker gets ridiculously good (for the total price). Even with the Ninja Elite upgrade, the changes are obvious and worth every penny. In addition to more detail (or rather exposing the detail in the recording that was previously masked by the components in the path), expect transparency to increase, as well as better focus (the speakers will match each other better due to minimized component variation), textures become more 'live' or palpable, soundstage expansion and overall musicality - these speakers really blossom.
Computer users should be using those ELT525M's with an Elite or Master upgrade for their desktops. They are small enough and nearfield they sound great. NoRez helps a lot here too as it will increase the 'taughtness' of the bass and clarity of midrange. This is very helpful in a smaller speaker that has to work a little harder due to its size.
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We will soon be offering pre-cut cabinet upgrade NoRez kits - stay tuned OR send a blank email to: info@skiingninja.com and in the subject write: ELT525x NoRez Notification (replace the x with the model of your choice). ... and we'll let you know when we are ready to go with that.
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Ninja Master versus Ninja Elite
| Ninja Master |
Ninja Elite |
| Pure point to point connections |
Re-use your existing PCB |
| Ultra-High purity copper foil inductors |
Re-use your existing inductors |
| Cardas Quad Eutectic Solder |
Vampire Silver Solder |
| Ninja SSC wiring |
Re-use existing wiring |
| Sonicap matched capacitors |
Sonicap matched capacitors |
| Mills non-inductive wire wound resistors |
Mills non-inductive wire wound resistors |
| Option: Fully Ninja built or DIY |
Option: Ninja upgraded or DIY |
Network Type
The Skiing Ninja network is based on the original ELT525T crossover network. We have not changed any part values.
What has changed?
Superior substrate
Superior parts quality
Superior layout
Superior connections
Now that you know what has physically changed, lets talk about what you will hear as a result...
Crossover Benefits
Overall you will notice a higher level of detail, texture, focus, superior sound stage, dynamics, musicality, and transparency. What does that mean? We use as few components in our networks as possible. This allows the cleanest signal to be passed to your speakers. Rest assured this does not change the frequency response of the speaker or the overall character.
Texture – all of the ‘inner’ details of each instrument comes across clearly. The ‘live’ feel comes across so well because the subtleties that are normally lost are finally present. The more revealing the overall presentation is, the more convincing it is.
Focus – We tightly match our components. While most components are 5 or even 10% tolerance, we use only 5% or less tolerance components and then we hand match them so that each pair of networks is 500 to 1000% better than the stock crossover.
Sound stage – moves the sound stage from being within the confines of the speaker and moves it out, up, and behind the speaker. This helps recreate the sense of space and volume of the original performance.
Dynamics – Our networks use high quality Mills resistors and Alpha-Core copper foil inductors. This means no masking of top end detail, no muddled midrange and more convincing slam on the low end. There is a lot of techno mumbo jumbo about the why’s of this and it would be too much to detail here. Contact Us if you want more info.
Transparency – The ability for the speakers to remove themselves from the performance. Our networks enhance this ability due to their magnetically correct layout, point to point build and superior quality components.
Musicality – The best part and why we are all here. Everything your speakers used to do they will do better with Ninja Master networks and upgrades.
Layout
The component layout of a Ninja Master network is carefully chosen to provide the shortest signal path possible while also ensuring magnetic field contamination is keep to a minimum or non-existent. For more information on why this is important, visit our layout information page. Features and Components
Additional Upgrades
We don't stop with crossover network upgrades. A speaker's final sound quality is very much a sum of its parts. The crossover network design, the crossover network parts quality, the cabinet, internal wiring, drive units and binding posts. All of these items contribute to the end product - of which the goal is to simulate a live event with perfect accuracy. Click the options info tab above for more information! |
