JimJ

You can compare anything to a product that's not available yet and it'd look better

Cool stuff Wilsons on tubes...now that'd be something to hear.

Personally, I wouldn't listen to anything they have to say, regardless of the product they're pushing.

Life is short, time is too valuable for places like Ecoustics.

Around here, news and boring talk shows. And the occansional game that I'd want to listen to. That's easy. Alaska. Salmon season.

The only RD product I've heard so far is the Alpha, and that wasn't on the same level as the Mag...not on the same price level either. I'd be curious to hear RD's higher end drivers.

Sounds like he might have the SeXXX's, which were the predecessors to the SX line.

A tasty post. I like my chili on fire, probably not what Steve's after

Close to 200 users today. Good stuffs.

Middle school geometry - area of a circle is equal to pi * radius^2. For a single 15" port, that would be ~176.7 sq. in. For five three inchers, it'd be (7.06) * 5 = 35.3 sq. in.

Even McIntosh owners replace caps after 30 years or so of use...still pretty damn incredible considering. Show me an Onkyo or Pioneer piece of crap that's going to still be in daily use three decades from now with $10 worth of parts needing replacement.

If nobody's touched that radio since '69, you can almost guarantee it's in need of a re-capping...electrolytics just don't last four decades, even in the best stuff - nevermind a stock GM radio

I get asked a lot about recommendations for home audio speakers, and it's hard to argue with the value of DIY speakers. But just Googling for random plans can be a little intimidating sometimes if someone doesn't quite know what they're looking for. Figured we could start a little list of pre-tested homebuilt projects for people to look through, to get ideas for their own stuff. Feel free to add any that you come across. http://www.zaphaudio.com/ - John Krutke's excellent site, concentration on smallish 'bookshelf' monitors and component comparisons http://www.frugel-horn.com - full range, single driver, crossoverless designs http://www.speakerbuilder.net/ - a good mix of bookshelf and floorstanding speakers, easy-to-obtain parts http://www.humblehomemadehifi.com/ - very wide variety of tested speaker designs, from the economical to the no-holds-barred high end http://www.partsexpress.com/projectshowcase/homeaudio.cfm - the PE project showcase. Lots of different ideas to try out http://t-linespeakers.org/projects/index.html - transmission line speakers and subwoofer plans http://www.quarter-wave.com/Projects.html - Martin King's quarter-wave speaker projects section, excellent information if you're thinking about building a tuned quarter wave pipe of any kind. http://www.zillaspeak.com/bib.asp - probably the simplest-to-build horn plan out there, a good single driver, no-crossover solution. The companion thread on DIYAudio is here: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=66173 http://members.myactv.net/~je2a3/open.htm - JE Labs open baffle plans. If you're curious about getting openly baffled, might be a good place to start looking http://passdiy.com/speakers.htm - Nelson Pass' superb DIY section. Small speakers, BIG cabinets. Big fun. http://www.quadesl.com/tidytl.html - compact transmission line plans for the highly-regarded Jordan JX92 full range speaker http://planet10-hifi.com/boxes.html - Planet10's box plan library. Related to the frugel-horn project, this is *the* place to start looking if you're thinking about CSS FR125 4.5's, Fostex or other single speaker ideas.

To be honest, the BM's wouldn't be my first choice if I was going sealed...and I'd prefer the W6v2 (assuming you mean the v2 here) ever so slightly over the BMs, regardless of the enclosure. The price differential might be a factor in your decision, though.

If he's looking at a vehicle with staging a primary concern, I doubt where the substage goes is really important Besides, new Beetles have enough room to stuff a sub up in the dash somewhere...which is ideal anyway.

Sounds like an interesting project...t00bed?

My neighbors have played music really loudly at 4AM. Nothing you can do except turn it up louder than them

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I'm 10 minutes from Durham. There's nothing in this part of the state, most activity is in the Charlotte area. There's a USAC event in Roanoke Rapids, but that's in the spring, not sure if they do anything during the summer.

Ryan, I'd skip the MMG's. Almost every review I've read on them has the reviewer wanting more, wishing they'd gone with the bigger models. The only way I'd drop that much on a camera is if it had Rollei or Leica on it

The point where the sub crosses over to the main speakers is going to depend on the low frequency extension of your mains, it's going to vary from speaker to speaker and room to room. Crossover points are speaker and design-dependent, there's no hard and fast rule...

Oh, and that Polo guy is a first-rate idiot. I feel bad that what he says passes for "advice" over there.

"1 ohm" is simply a "nominal" load. The actual impedance of the driver changes depending on the cone's movement, so 1 ohm is simply given as a general figure to use. The actual impedance at rest (known as the DCR) will vary slightly from it. Sounds like your amp doesn't like the low impedance, and is going into protection.

A VW Beetle would be very, very hard to beat for pure staging potential...not sure if it meets your "decently quick" criteria, but it'd probably be faster than your S-10 stock