johnk
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| full range driver selection for DIY home system Of what you posted I would go with the Fostex fe166en in a Nagaoka cabinet design fostex incs plan with driver. One big reason you hear +- about these drivers is the many variables involved with DIY. A smaller fullrange will sound weak forced and ... | |
| Did anybody get horns figured with triodes ? Viridian disagree with the large horns needing large space to sound right this is wrong from my findings. If properly set up a large horn doesn't require any more room than other designs just maybe a bit more floor space and even that's debatable ... | |
| Did anybody get horns figured with triodes ? I use SET PP SS etc on my horn systems not all have synergy with SET power but most do. | |
| 1 large subwoofer or 2 smaller ones...? bass horn, subs are sub optimal and highly compromised designs | |
| Size of Midrange Drivers Have a loudspeaker that I'm working on with 14ft long horn 43x62in bell 4in compression driver used as a mid range. | |
| Small room....treating 1st reflection points Have had good luck using mattress pads I use polyfill over mattress pad cover with wood frame and fabric. | |
| Why did you choose a horn based loudspeaker? Phusis and others thanks for the thoughtful replies. True many different horn flares driver combinations available and I do see some the the DIY crowd having a bit of trouble sorting it out. I find with horns matching radiation patterns and using ... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil If you note I was one of the 1st in this thread. And I do find it a bit strange that a trained scientist would ignore the most basic tests and just trust subjective results. I still think if those who mod would approach it with more knowledge and ... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Not debunking the fact that different parts have different sound quality just the way the mods are done. I feel many posting could of saved time $ and ended up with better results if they approached the modifications with a objective skeptical min... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil How do you really know? Since you didn't compare the unaltered to altered? You spent quite a bit of $ took time and did mod how could it be anything but better after? Maybe you should read up on confirmation bias. Its very easy to keep one speaker... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil My issue is that as far as I've read not one has compared the original unaltered network to modified one and many have modded network than modded again over and over. I have yet to read that the gents experimenting so have tested results at all ju... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Thread is 6 years old you would think the networks been sorted out by now sure looks to be a extremely costly bunch of putzing about. Might of been better to just saved up and bought better kit. | |
| Best 300B SET WAVAC, Mastersound, VIVA, Line magnetic all make wonderful 300b amplifiers of extreme quality. | |
| Bybee Internal Speaker Bullets - user feedback? Good way to invalidate any warranty and I do know many manufacturers will not repair equipment modified by owners. Also on resale who wants equipment modified by owner with no manufacturer support? | |
| Listening Fatigue & Speakers in Small Room Thermal compression caused by overly small transducers and massive power amp bet fatigue sets in after 30-40 mins of listening. You're sitting closer to loudspeaker thus hearing the compression more. 225 watts will easily heat a VC to near glowing... |