Recent content by Dustin Haug

Unless you've actually heard and like the sound of a tube amp I'd suggest that you stick to solid state amps. You'll almost certainly get more power and less distortion (unless you build it wrong) than a tube design.

Anybody here every made any DIY amplifiers. I'm trying to find decent sized torroidal transformers online and am having no luck at all. I've tried Newark, Mouser, Jameco, Digikey as well as going to google and trying a search and I can't find anything. Any suggestions?

All you have to do is check the resistance between the positive terminal on each of your speakers and the positive terminal on your reciever/amp. It should be very small. Another easy way to test it is to take a small battery (A, AA, etc.) remove your speaker wire from your reciever and touch...

Do what Greg said and suck the T-Nuts into the wood using their bolts, this works great. You may still be able to get the old ones out, if so you could probably patch the whole with some bondo and silicon. Don't panic, just take your time and things will work out just fine...

You could make a new box (or sonotube) for it, however you may not gain much. Try and find the parameters of the sub and plug the numbers into WinISD or some other simulator and play around with different volumes/tuning that's about the only way to determine if it would be worth the effort...

The simple answer is yes you could. But don't. Unless you're using the resistor to increase the load and attenuate the speaker. Because if you put it in parallel with the speaker (to decrease the load) the current will divide and you won't really see much if any more power from your amp and...

Do you have access to another set of them? If so check if those are wired the same way. It's possible that it's intentional, but my guess is that it's a mistake. As far as whether it's worth it to try and fix them, that's a judgement call if you can get the crossovers cheap it may be worth...

$160/sheet is practical? Wow, I'm really poor. Just kidding ChrisA, your subs absolutely kick ass. ------------------ My DIY sub page

Found this on caraudioforum.com this is the guy I was talking about. Haven't been able to find any pics or anything yet. "I don't know if any of you guys remember or not but back in '93 & '94 Chad Klodner won the Pro class at the IASCA Finals with a Mustang that used a STEEL subwoofer...

I posted a while ago about making an aluminum keg into a sub. I have seen a car audio system (damn good one) use an aluminum sub enclosure. If memory serves me right the guys name was Chad Klodner. He was one of the top competitors on the IASCA circuit a few years back. He lined his...

I just thought it would look pretty cool. You could even use 2 and make an end table out of them or something. ------------------ My DIY sub page

Wow! Excellent job, that looks very professional. How long did it take? ------------------ My DIY sub page

Turning a keg into a sub. I figure if a cardboard tube is rigid enough why not an aluminum one. You'd have to deaden it so that it didn't "ping" when the bass hit, but it wouldn't be that bad. I know people have made aluminum sub enclosures for car audio, I think they used modeling clay...

Go to Radio Shack, or a local car audio shop and they should have plenty of grill cloth. ------------------ My DIY sub page

Car subs will work just fine for a home sub. And you don't need to use a "4 ohm amp" (assuming you mean stable at 4 ohms) to drive all car subs only 4 ohm car subs. Many car subs are 2,6, or even 8 ohms per coil. Just make sure that whatever amp you drive the sub with is stable to at least...