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I seem to have missed the cause for the apparent mass exodus from the DIY forum, and where everyone ran off to. What happened?

Which of these two designs is likely to be sonically better? And yes, I know I'm going to have to do a completely custom crossover for either. ;) Design 1) Design 2) They are both rear ported with a 3" flared port. Box will be 52L tuned to 30Hz. I would think Design 1 would be...

I'm going to be building a pair of speakers with Adire Extremis 6" mid woofers and a tweeter based on Adire's plans (ETA unknown on the plans). I am thinking of actively biamping these. Is there a good not too expensive method for active bi-amping? I was looking at a Behringer Ultradrive...

Ford has the X plan, and GM has a "GM In the driveway" / "Family First" program. Do other automakers, specifically Nissan/Infiniti have plans like this?

http://www.adireaudio.com/TextPages/...eFrameText.htm Fs 30 Hz Qms 2.54 Qes .383 Qts .332 Vas 33.2 liters SPL 86 dB @ 1W, 1m Power 100W RMS/300W Peak BL 9 N/A Xmax 13mm one way Sd 140 cm2 Vd 364 cm³ Le 0.13 mH Re 7.02 Ohms Currently on Pre-order... Can this 8 ohm driver be...

I just moved into an apartment and got WOW (Wide Open West) cable. The quality is just dismal. The analog channels have pretty poor picture quality and the digital ones are far too compressed and look horrid. The audio on a lot of the channels is mono! Dolby Pro Logic II Movie Mode struggles to...

I'm itching to build a 2-way with a ribbon and their killer 6" driver like they were pimping at CES, but the Extremis seems to be AWOL. What's up?

Note to Self: Connect sub to amp correctly Well I get the stupid award... I had my DIY Tumult hooked up incorrectly to my QSX PLX 2402. The amp is bridged so I should have been using the center two binding posts, but I had been using the upper two binding posts. So I guess I was using half...

So my Tumult has what appears to be a rubber gasket around the driver. Was that there only for shipping, or should it be used when it's mounted? It seems like it would get in the way of the screws or mounting hardware. Speaking of mounting hardware... What should I use to mount it? I've used...

That's right I'm giving up on the Tumult and getting one of these bad boys right here (as first seen on AVS http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...hreadid=261438 ) http://www.holomaxx.com/trade/produc...roducts_id/160 I can't wait to show all those smug SVS and Tumult owner's who's the boss...

Where is/are your Tumult/Tumults? I'm curious as to how many people have 'em, what they're using 'em for, and how many people are still waiting. Mine is MIA.

If you do apparently Adire and Resonant Engineering have something in store for you. From Resonant Engineering on Acoustic-Visions's Forum:

http://forums.acoustic-visions.com/i...t=ST&f=4&t=487 Details are still somewhat sketchy on this one, but it's pretty crazy that in less than 20 seconds Jeff was able to fry one of his Tumults. He has two. Each was powered from a bridged K2 and they're in 5 cu-ft PR enclosures. He also...

Read it and weep. (or if you're Lee party on) http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993566 Seth

Hopefully I just got a defective disc, but in track 5 (Don't Stand so Close to me) in both the 2 channel SACD and the Redbook layer there's a nice "pop" at 20.284s in both channels and then another "pop" at 20.324s in just the right channel. The 5.1 mix does not have this pop. I've ripped...

I got my hybrid copy the Police - Greatest Hits and DSOTM. I've ripped the CD layer to my computer and compressed them with LAME 3.92 using --alt preset extreme. I've noticed on both, especially on The Police, that the redbook layer of the SACD seems to compress to mp3 much better than the...

I've got these lovely PR weights I'm not 100% sure what the best way to attach them to my Adire PR15x PRs. I would imagine that JB Weld or a similar epoxy would work best, but I'm not sure. Any ideas? Seth

Kyle or Dan, Were the voicecoils that were sent to the build house yesterday (3/11) satisfactory? If so when will the remaining drivers ship? If not, what's the plan of action? Seth

I have a slightly off the wall idea on how to weigh my PRs that involves copper BBs and fiberglass resin. I know where to get copper BBs, but I don't know where to buy fiberglass resin. Anyone know (of have ideas) where I might be able to buy some? Seth

I downloaded the linktranadv29.13.xls spreadsheet and have been playing with it. I have 2 issues. 1) why +12V and -12V? This requires a fairly elaborate powersupply. I would think using different op amps would solve this problem, but that's not really discussed either. 2) Is the input...

Are there any DIY rumble filter kits in existance? I'm going to be using a pro-amp to power my Tumult (PR enclosure) and the driver will unload below 15Hz. I'd like to have a fairly aggressive rolloff below the frequency I chose to roll. Seth

Does anyone know how much box volume (Liters or Cu-ft) the Adire PR15's displace? My box design has 4 PR15s and I need to know how many liters I need to factor in for them. I'm guessing maybe about 3-4L each, but I don't really know. That's pretty much just a shot in the dark. Also, what's...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._resignation_3 My favorite part:

Kyle or Dan, What's the status of our drivers? When should we be expecting them? ( and please no bragging from our northern neighbors about how you already have yours :angry: ) Seth

I'm looking to get a "low end" (~$500) Flat 27" TV. I'm planning on getting a LCD projector (Sony HS10) for serious movie viewing, but I don't really want to put hours on the bulb to watch CNN, nor do I really want to watch Wolf Blitzer head at 5' tall on my screen. So, along those lines...

I've been modeling my Tumult box in WinISD Pro (Alpha .50a6) and the results aren't really vibing with Unibox 4.02. I was modelling 1600W on a Tumult with 4 Adire PR-15's at 1500g in a 200L enclosure. Unibox set to no leaks, no fill. Unibox says I will peak at 32.5mm of PR excursion (more...

I bought the two CD + DVD version of this from DeepDiscountCD and it sounds really bad. There is noticable distortion in some of the songs, pops in others. I've listened to it in my Sony SACD player (SCD-CE775), ripped it from several of my DVD-rom/CD-rom drives and they all sound the same...

I've seen a few things from Tom V. about the new SVS sub. Things like:

After seeing how pretty the rear of the tumult is I'm tossing around the idea of putting a window in the box so you can see the rear of the cone. I've gone to Lowes and Home Depot and wasn't able to find anything thicker than .25" I wasn't planning on making the window all that big. Like maybe...

I'm building a Tumult with 4 Adire 15" PRs. I'm not trying to turn this into the same thread we keep seeing about the Tumult and PRs. My question is, Are there any adverse side effects to having the cone fire down and a PR on each of the 4 sides of the box? Or would I be better off with two...