Dirty Weekend Jupiter Upgrade Kit
Upgrade your Omen Dirty Weekend Mk.I, Mk.I-B or Mk.II loudspeakers with this easy DIY Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Kit—only basic solder and screwdriver skills required. Yes, with the original, mark I-B and mark-2 Dirty Weekend need to have the tweeter-side leads soldered to the tweeter.
Dirty Weekend 1~2 Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Upgrade Kit has correct length leadouts that are prepped and terminated so you don’t have to mess with stripping and terminals.
This kit replaced the the tweeter’s high-pass network. More information on the differences and what you can expect from this kit are discussed further down.
Video (link below) shows the upgrade being performed on the DW-6. It is similar to the original Dirty Weekend, the difference being soldering the leads to the tweeter, and there is no foam piece to remove. DO NOT ADD OR MOD THE FOAM IN YOUR DW SPEAKERS.
How-to instructional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyom511U00Y
Dirty Weekend 1~2 Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Kit Includes
Built with leadouts that are ready to connected to Dirty Weekend Mk.I~II speakers—leads are prepped and ready for soldering to the tweeter
Matched pair (0.2% or better) Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax capacitors, from the same batch (no cross batch matching)
Cap bodies measure 2.1" [53mm] long, 1.1" [28mm] diameter
Capacitors are made in USA for Zu Audio
New set of PTFE insulated silver-copper tweeter ground leads, ready for soldering
Syringe of Loctite™ SI-5900 adhesive, that you use to secure the Jupiter capacitor to the back-center of the tweeter driver
Price is for a matched pair (2x).
Upgrade your Omen Dirty Weekend Mk.I, Mk.I-B or Mk.II loudspeakers with this easy DIY Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Kit—only basic solder and screwdriver skills required. Yes, with the original, mark I-B and mark-2 Dirty Weekend need to have the tweeter-side leads soldered to the tweeter.
Dirty Weekend 1~2 Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Upgrade Kit has correct length leadouts that are prepped and terminated so you don’t have to mess with stripping and terminals.
This kit replaced the the tweeter’s high-pass network. More information on the differences and what you can expect from this kit are discussed further down.
Video (link below) shows the upgrade being performed on the DW-6. It is similar to the original Dirty Weekend, the difference being soldering the leads to the tweeter, and there is no foam piece to remove. DO NOT ADD OR MOD THE FOAM IN YOUR DW SPEAKERS.
How-to instructional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyom511U00Y
Dirty Weekend 1~2 Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Kit Includes
Built with leadouts that are ready to connected to Dirty Weekend Mk.I~II speakers—leads are prepped and ready for soldering to the tweeter
Matched pair (0.2% or better) Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax capacitors, from the same batch (no cross batch matching)
Cap bodies measure 2.1" [53mm] long, 1.1" [28mm] diameter
Capacitors are made in USA for Zu Audio
New set of PTFE insulated silver-copper tweeter ground leads, ready for soldering
Syringe of Loctite™ SI-5900 adhesive, that you use to secure the Jupiter capacitor to the back-center of the tweeter driver
Price is for a matched pair (2x).
Upgrade your Omen Dirty Weekend Mk.I, Mk.I-B or Mk.II loudspeakers with this easy DIY Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Kit—only basic solder and screwdriver skills required. Yes, with the original, mark I-B and mark-2 Dirty Weekend need to have the tweeter-side leads soldered to the tweeter.
Dirty Weekend 1~2 Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Upgrade Kit has correct length leadouts that are prepped and terminated so you don’t have to mess with stripping and terminals.
This kit replaced the the tweeter’s high-pass network. More information on the differences and what you can expect from this kit are discussed further down.
Video (link below) shows the upgrade being performed on the DW-6. It is similar to the original Dirty Weekend, the difference being soldering the leads to the tweeter, and there is no foam piece to remove. DO NOT ADD OR MOD THE FOAM IN YOUR DW SPEAKERS.
How-to instructional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyom511U00Y
Dirty Weekend 1~2 Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Kit Includes
Built with leadouts that are ready to connected to Dirty Weekend Mk.I~II speakers—leads are prepped and ready for soldering to the tweeter
Matched pair (0.2% or better) Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax capacitors, from the same batch (no cross batch matching)
Cap bodies measure 2.1" [53mm] long, 1.1" [28mm] diameter
Capacitors are made in USA for Zu Audio
New set of PTFE insulated silver-copper tweeter ground leads, ready for soldering
Syringe of Loctite™ SI-5900 adhesive, that you use to secure the Jupiter capacitor to the back-center of the tweeter driver
Price is for a matched pair (2x).
Return Credits
No return credit is offered for the Dirty Weekend mark 1, 1-B, or mark-2 speakers.
Warranty
5-year warranty on parts.
Guarantee
This kit is covered by your 60-day satisfaction guarantee. Install the kit, give it a month to burn-in and sound it’s best, after which if you decide the cost isn’t worth it, reinstall the original parts and send the kit back for full refund, we pay return shipping.
How Long Will It Take To Do The Change Out?
2 hours of labor, 12 hours of letting the damping adhesive cure. Most will take about an hour to disassemble the pair of speakers, then another hour of labor to install and reassemble. This is a pretty easy swap out and the video is shot without much in editing, giving you a good idea of time and difficulty.
What Tools Are Needed?
Clean tabletop and blanket or pad, so you can operate on your speakers as they lay speaker drivers up
Soldering iron and your preference for solder (we like 2 - 4% silver bearing
#1 square drive screwdriver
Torx T-20 screwdriver
What Sound Differences Are There Between The Standard, ClarityCap MR, And The Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Caps?
Comparing the ClarityCap MR to the Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax, the Jupiter gives you a nice bump in smoothness and holography, where the recreated sound space is more “reach out and touch you” and buttery, but without sacrificing any detail in resolution. Differences are most noticed in tone-laden dynamic and dense program material, like singer-songwriter, folk, glitch and noise music. There is less difference between them in big orchestra and modern metal recordings.
What Capacitors Do I Have In My Dirty Weekend Mk.I, Mk.I-B or Mk.II Loudspeakers?
The majority of the Dirty Weekend speakers were built using drivers that were used but factory refurbished (thus the name Dirty Weekend). The majority of these used Eminence APT-50 tweeter drivers that require soldering. DW-1, 1-B and 2, were all built to order, and we offered with basic polypro caps, KimberKaps, Mundorf Silver/Oil, ClarityCap MR, and Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax capacitors as options. Unsure what you have? Flip your Omen Dirty Weekend upside down, shine a light through one of the finger ports in the bottom and look, focusing your gaze on the tweeter. On the back of the tweeter you will see a large blue cap if it’s a ClarityCap MR; large brown colored cap if it is Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax capacitor, small yellow if it is a KimberKap. The standard polypropylene cap is a small sized and may not be visible.
