Omen-1 Jupiter Upgrade Kit
Upgrade your Omen Mk.I loudspeakers with this easy DIY Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Kit—only basic solder and screwdriver skills required.
Omen-1 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 Teflon or installing terminals. You will need to solder on the tweeter driver, but that is the extent of the soldering.
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 Omen-1, the difference is there’s no foam piece to remove on the Omen, and the tweeter driver does require soldering. No, you don’t want to add any foam to the Omen Mk.I or I-B, the DW-6 are very different funtionally—DO NOT CHANGE THE INTERNAL FOAM ARRAMGMENT.
How-to instructional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyom511U00Y
Omen-1 Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Kit Includes
Built with leadouts that are ready to connected to Omen Mk.I speakers—leads are prepped and ready to install, soldering is required on 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 Mk.I loudspeakers with this easy DIY Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Kit—only basic solder and screwdriver skills required.
Omen-1 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 Teflon or installing terminals. You will need to solder on the tweeter driver, but that is the extent of the soldering.
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 Omen-1, the difference is there’s no foam piece to remove on the Omen, and the tweeter driver does require soldering. No, you don’t want to add any foam to the Omen Mk.I or I-B, the DW-6 are very different funtionally—DO NOT CHANGE THE INTERNAL FOAM ARRAMGMENT.
How-to instructional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyom511U00Y
Omen-1 Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Kit Includes
Built with leadouts that are ready to connected to Omen Mk.I speakers—leads are prepped and ready to install, soldering is required on 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 Mk.I loudspeakers with this easy DIY Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Kit—only basic solder and screwdriver skills required.
Omen-1 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 Teflon or installing terminals. You will need to solder on the tweeter driver, but that is the extent of the soldering.
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 Omen-1, the difference is there’s no foam piece to remove on the Omen, and the tweeter driver does require soldering. No, you don’t want to add any foam to the Omen Mk.I or I-B, the DW-6 are very different funtionally—DO NOT CHANGE THE INTERNAL FOAM ARRAMGMENT.
How-to instructional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyom511U00Y
Omen-1 Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax Capacitor Kit Includes
Built with leadouts that are ready to connected to Omen Mk.I speakers—leads are prepped and ready to install, soldering is required on 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 Of Old Parts Credits
There is no return credit on the Omen Mk.I loudspeakers.
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 Does This Take?
2 hours of labor, 12 hours of letting the 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
#1 square drive screwdriver
Torx T20 drive screwdriver
Soldering Iron (2 - 4% silver bearing solder is recommended)
What Are The Sound Differences Between The Standard, ClarityCap MR, And Jupiter Copper Foil & Wax?
Compared to the base model’s basic polypropylene capacitor, the ClarityCap MR creates a more relaxed and smooth sound all while raising resolution. The combination of reduced noise and improved transient response let you hear deeper into the sound field—improved stereophony, better timber of brass and percussion-heavy instruments, more revealing vocals, improved tone and color resolution of string-based instruments. 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 Came In Omen Mk.I Speakers?
ERSE Pulse-X polypropylene capacitors were fitted as standard.
