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  3. Posted

    That's awesome news! I'm glad to hear you are finally getting the response you were looking for. I'll say that honestly it takes some practice to learn how to tune an active system. Learning how to adjust the gains for tweeters is a tough one. It's not always easy to hear the stress before they pop. That's typically why we recommend starting with cheap(er) drivers when delving into the world of active processing. 

    Woohoo for time alignment!!  Best thing ever invented isn't it?!?!  I love the way music sounds with time alignment, immersed in the sound almost as if you were there when it was being recorded. At least with well recorded music, I've been let down by some really great songs with horrible recordings. The more you play with your active setup the more songs you'll find too, unfortunately. 

    I'm so glad to hear that your active setup is coming around to meeting your expectations!!

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    LOL, hooray for hippy parents!!

    The rep system is what it is and such things can always be abused in some shape or form occasionally. I don't think there's any need to change it as it's not going to change the situations when conflict of some kind arises between members. 

    While the forum isn't as busy as it used to be (I blame Facebook and other social media) everyone who's active here has a great passion for the hobby. That passion and (let's face it) a little bit of ego can make for a fiery combination.  However if the name calling and such is left out of it with only facts leading it can turn into some fantastic discussion and debate. 

    In all honesty Billy the ban hammer here mostly collects dust. The only thing it's ever used on is the spam bots. I've been a member for several years and can only remember one instance it was used on an actual member and it was definitely needed. There really wasn't any other choice. 

    As for the comments about Mark and Steve, he doesn't have to agree with him to be friends with him. I would even venture to guess that they were friends or at least acquaintances before Steve got so popular and full of himself. 

     

    Thats just my .02 for what it's worth. 

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    Personally, except for the port area being a little on the small side for my taste, I think the enclosure looks great.  Well, for a single sub, are you planning on building two like that or one big box with separate chambers?  2.5cuft of volume per sub would be nice but that much for both would be WAY too small. 

    If that's all the space you can afford to give the enclosure then doing a sealed enclosure should be your only course of action rather than trying to shoehorn them into an enclosure that's too small. The icons will definitely surprise you with their response in a sealed enclosure if that's the case. If not then you're going to have to give up more room for the enclosure. 

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  6. Posted

    On September 13, 2016 at 2:15 PM, infinity526 said:

    Good to hear! To harp on the same thing again, will your review contain a frequency response graph? 

    I'd love to be able to do that but without the proper equipment, location, and training I'm afraid anything I would measure would be fruitless and a waste of time. 

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    Yup, sounds about right. The software is accurate enough and you're likely using it correctly, finding a middle road capable of delivering you what you need with compromise in the right places is the key that experience will eventually get you. 

    In a trunk port noise is harder to detect, so you can scrape by with less port area a bit easier if that's the case.  Small enclosures are always harder to deal with when it comes to port design because of how much faster exponentially the port length grows as tuning is lowered or port area is increased.  You may have to model and build a few different designs to learn for yourself and decide which compromises you can and can't live with.

     

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  15. Posted

    6 hours ago, hdrox88 said:

    I'm not 100% sure about the crossovers in your exact set, but there is a very good chance the mid was playing 1000hz and 2500hz. 1000hz may actually play better out of the mid than the tweeter. It may be difficult to get to, but treat each component set as if it were two separate speakers. Listening to each one individually really does tell you a lot. I didn't understand this until I tried it myself.

    I spent hours researching tweeters one week as I was sure I needed new ones. Come to find out, after listening to each speaker individually, the sound I didn't like was actually a peak in the frequency response on my mids. A little eq and it was gone. We all have to start somewhere, sometimes diving in is the best way to learn. 

    Awesome and solid advice right here. 

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    6 hours ago, SpeakerBoy said:

    Fuck me in the face with a pitchfork my left tweeter was ruining my whole install.TOTALLY UNDERRATED advice. Mucho gracias senór.

     

    Let me ask this next one carefully. Did you mean both left to right as in the entire left side was generally phased separate from your right or that your left tended to be phased opposite for example left tweet in right tweet out left mid out right tweet in

     

    I ask, because even though I pride myself on the of accuracy of my ear, between fatigue and severe anxiety (antagonized by uncertainty in my absolute favorite obsession) I am intimidated by the thought of switching each driver one at a time over and over all, what, twenty four times and deciding what sounds best. I'd literally rather make a switchboard for tuning.

    I used to have such a switching device years ago. I used non-shorting double pole-double throw switches, hooked the amp/input wires to the common terminals, the wires going to the speakers on one set of the switched terminals and a set of wires that cross going from that set of terminals to the last. It's important they're non-shorting switches because when the switch is flipped from one position to the other it would cause a short to the amp for a moment. Under a bit of power that could cause the amp to go into protect or worse damage it. Otherwise it's a super handy tool!

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  18. Posted

    7 hours ago, Billy Jack said:

    Guess he thought the box plans are free!

    Why couldn't  they be??  I've designed very successful enclosures for several members of the forum as well as dozens locally over the years and didn't charge a dime. 

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  19. Posted

    The opinion of others may vary but it looks like a beautifully constructed enclosure to me. That bracing should not be any issue at all with this being a sealed enclosure. I have seen comments where that style of bracing can affect output in a ported enclosure, which if true could possibly be an issue if one was intending to use it for SPL competition, but I can't imagine how it would be any issue ever in a sealed enclosure. 

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  24. Posted

    Aaron I'd be all over those developers, they released some really buggy software and sold it to you guys. I've had issues with opening my own profile let alone others, searching members names, still have issues with changing the theme, double posts and/or PM's, opening the link to view recent/unread topics, searching some topics, and it seems like another issue or two that I can't think of at the moment. Previous versions never had these kinds of issues, it's gotta be aggravating to you guys.  

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  25. Posted

    I'm using two of the Soundstream Harmony DSP's which are the exact same unit but with the Soundstream badge on them. 

    I personally love them. Though they lack a few features found in more powerful DSP's such as the miniDSP, but they're super user friendly, noise free and are a great first step into the realm of digital signal processors IMHO. 

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