Recent content by Dave Milne

A painted black baffle with veneer on the rest of the cabinet is attractive and easy to do. I finished my speaker projects this way for many years. Lately, though I've been veneering all sides. I think it is actually a little easier since it eliminates the paint step. One hint... I've found...

Todd, First the bad news: 14" x 48" is going to be difficult to find in single pieces. Solid lumber is sold in "random widths and lengths" with widths usually varying from 5" to 10" (length won't be a problem). Beyond that, you'll probably need to edge-glue multiple pieces. If you look closely...

Wow. Thanks Al and Thomas for your useful, contrasting, inputs. I am reminded why I was attracted to this forum several years ago. Yes, Thomas, I was thinking about the MTM design with the M8. And yes, I realize that the size and parts count of the crossover is driven by "massively parallel"...

Thanks Stuart. I also forgot to mention that in my search I (re)discovered the A/V-3. It looks like these are a solid design with a strong following. I was also intrigued by the M8n variants that ThomasW has discussed here and on other boards - I've just never seen a two way crossover with that...

I've been away from the boards for a while - enjoying my theater rather than tinkering with it (blasphemy!) My latest project is a pair of speakers for my dad. His is a two-channel only system and he'd prefer not to have a subwoofer. So I'm looking for some slim floorstanders with decent...

A couple of things to consider. If removing the amp creates a "hole" in the cabinet, then you'll need to plug it, or the system tuning will be affected. Second, many commercial subs use some form of EQ built into the amp. If you buy a generic plate amp or pro amp, you won't get this. You'll need...

I disagree that car audio can't sound as good as the best home audio. It can. It's just not practical. Take a look at a typical high-end home system (2-channel). You've got, say, $50K worth of pseudo-mass-produced gear (because home environments are generally pretty much the same). Heck...

Jose, I think he's running a conventional mono sub. The extra midbass drivers he's talking about would be run off of a pair of the surround outputs and high passed in the receiver like any "small" surrounds. So with a outboard passive low pass, it should work. Might have a response hump in the...

It sounds like what you are trying to do is use a couple of unused channels of your receiver to drive these "midbass" woofers. If your little P17WJs are having trouble producing high-level bass in the 60-150 Hz region why don't you just raise the sub crossover frequency? The problem with...

Paul, As they say... "Loud is beautiful, if it's clean" When I'm seriously listening, it's usually pretty loud - something like -14dB to -9dB. It takes decent amplifiers and speakers to stay clean at Stentorian levels. Cheaper amplifiers especially tend to get brittle-sounding when pushed. I...

Sorry that you might have some extra work ahead of you, Dave. But at least you caught it before texture and paint :emoji_thumbsup: My rule of thumb when building a theater is: prewire everything! 7 channels of speakers (at least) Conduit to PJ Power to PJ Power and screen trigger for...

DD movie: DD Logic 7 film DTS movie: DTS Logic 7 film DD music/concert: DD Logic 7 music DTS music/concert: DTS Logic 7 music Stereo: 2-channel Other than that, I'm with Dean S: I haven't even tried the 40 or so other sound field modes on my Lexicon MC-12!

drobbins, Welcome and good luck on your project 1. There are no s-video to composite adapters that I know of. Can you run the s-video straight from your DVD to the projector? This could be a simple solution if you use the projector for DVDs almost exclusively (like I do). Otherwise, I would...

I've found that a leftover 18" driver - mounted into the seating platform - does a very nice job ;)

No. THis won't cause problems. The woofs are in phase by definition (if wired correctly). The will just "pressurize" the trunk - and car - twice as much as a single driver. Now, if they were incorrectly wired out of phase, then yes, you would suffer huge cancellation. And the difference in...