John - You are right about resolving any horizonal baffle issues by having your Xover at or below 700hz. That is how it works on my DIY center - my only hump in sound comes at about 90hz and is an entirely good compromise for my Heresy based HT. The first couple of pics on theis page show the...
Jerry Parker - I have heard both the speakers you are looking to use and they are excellent choices. What Lens are you planning on using with the compression driver? The dual 12s will yield pretty darn good efficiency if parallel, but I was wondering what drives you to 2 of these and where...
on the affordability scale - what about our friends at Eminence? I have had quite a bit of success with their woofers - as long as I am comfortable with reasonable extension to about 40 - 50 hz. I should be fine above 500 - 700hz using compression drivers and horn lens. Thanks to both for the...
I have been absent for sometime and missed this area's transformation to the subwoofer builder's forum. Does anyone have any in progress, highly efficient 3 way projects? That is next on my plate and looking for experiences and opinions.
Grain of salt the CR stuff in many areas. Take time to do your own research. Even in CR's so called expertise areas I found the reviews to be too shallow and not pragmatic enough to be of value in any long term purchase. My opinion only...
I am with Doug - let your ears be your guide. This is a very personal thing - I am not a great fan of either Linn or B&W, so I would say they are overpriced, That just may not match what your ears say...
I wasn't, and can't, talk about volume and speaker damage. You have tried this you can prove me wrong, however - a good bass speaker needs to have a broad frequency range - some thing that many woofers used in subs don't do exceptionally well. Getting the good SPL for a band environment might...
A good sub is generally tuned to those long wave really low stuff. Maby subs aren't used for freqs much above 80 - 100 hz and alot of your guitar stuff is well above that range. I wouldn't do it either.
Well - high efficiency speakers will let you find flaws in power, so the first bet is your amp. This is not uncommon with many SS amps. Try to turn your source off (the CD player), select the source on your amp and turn the volume up and see what you hear. If the noise is there (even if less...
Birch is darn tight and slow to take the stain. Most of my blotching came because I left it on too long. Patience and repetition is my advice - it should keep it even in the long run. When done I will oil once a year for about three years to add a deep richness.
Oops - I will bow out of my comment. Greg and Wayne have both been extremely helpful to me on two separate projects and I don't want to irritate either one. I'll go namby pamby and profess strong affection for both. Any wrong comment was written by my evil twin sister Henrietta (I wish she...
Try here -- http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pi/bbs.html This is the Pi speaker forum. Pi speakers is the passion of Wayne Parnham and he freely dishes out advice here. He uses a zobel filter in his one Pi and Two Pi speakers. I have built a Two Pi and can vouch for the effectiveness of...
The same Bob - and he shows up all over the place. I am with you Sloan - I have gotten into several electronic word battles with Bob. It is amazingly sophomoric the thrill I get during the confrontations.
The really cool part is that he doesn't realize the bait you are using, nor that you...
Chris did a better job on the details. The less is better from a conversion standpoint is well taken. Remember - the final stage in this process is analogue (your speakers) - so any digital prior to that has to be converted at least once to get to something you can hear. In a small defense of...
I, for one, do not hear the distinct betterness of analogue connections. Most current digital connections are very true and offer excellent quality. In earlier digital days the alogrythyms varied on the codecs and analogue offered the most consistent quality. That is mostly untrue today (to...
A vote for in stereo - whether 2 channel, 3 channel, 4 channel or 5 channel. Unless noted on your music source otherwise, that is the mode these babies were built for. If you don't have the same speakers for all those speakers, I would go so far as to suggest only sending the sound to...
Right on Bill - thanks for getting a simple solution to test the reciever first and placement second. Gosh - it makes way too much sense and is so darn simple that it hardly seems worthy, considering how we like to complicate our hobby...
I think placement is the issue as well. the midrange stuff through the horns are probably reflecting strongly off the fronts if they are near corners, resulting in an impression of more volume (in certain frequencies) at your sitting area. I have heresy all around and found that I had to...
Unfortunately I am not as in control of my addiction as you. I have the same mains, center (modified), sides, good sub and a different couple of small speakers for the rear. From my years of experimenting, this is the way to go for me - it is the cleanest HT, excellent music (I can go 2, 3, 4 or...
Ok - I'll try to tackle this.. I too went through several center channel speakers - I felt that (regardless of whether you listen to music there) they should be of the same quality as the mains, especially since their price was the same. Just wasn't so. I suppose that the design of the boxes...
As always this is my opinion and your ears are all that matter in your purchases... IMHO, and very strong at that, if you want both music and HT in the same listening area you will get speakers for your music. Placed appropriately they will excel in HT. Further, the same speaker all around...
Folks are hitting this nail on the head - many horn speakers for the home concentrate on the mid frequencies to high frquencies for horns and then match that with a high efficiency non horn loaded woofer. This is the easiest way to get the desired horn dynamics with out having to build the large...
I tend to agree with Wesnor on the diminishing returns, but can't speak to his specific kit critiques. If you spend the $600 on parts you can afford to get to the crux of the matter on solid box and Xover work - at this point you will get great results to detailed attention in these areas...
I used Jig saw for the first couple of ventures (and it was OK), but was I ever pleased when I got a $25 edge and circle jig from Home Depot. It is the cheap universal mount, but I now wish it was one of the first things i had gotten... Still have to use jigsaw and dremel to smooth out ports...
Excellent write up Chris - a good layman definition. I agree with all Chris says except the signal definition first paragraph. While three ways introduce more parts with no change in error probability, the chance for failure of a part increases (however, statistically this is a minor event...
You will need to connect your sub in line if you purchase a unit with onboard amplification - that is each speaker wire would go to the sub then out to the respective speaker. Both speaker wires (assuming you aren't biwired) must go to the sub. If you use a sub that requires separate...