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The 6.5" Sigs (FE168's). Seemed to be a good tradeoff between the lower-frequency performance of the 8's without as much of the beaming issues (although the Sigs do better with that than the whizzered regular ones anyway). Most of those Fostexes are rated for 25W, IIRC.

I personally prefer to buy from a camera company and not an electronics manufacturer. It is all in the lense, but as for which I'd have no idea at this point. Sony typically uses Zeis for the optics portion of the camera. I have a Sony Cybershot that works plenty fine. It even got tossed and landed on gravel concrete and still works good (save from some pictures coming out a lil blurry if your not steady) It is my understanding that it is some chinese or comparable lense with a zeiss name on it. I believe that is correct, I think Carl Zeiss passed away and the Zeiss brand name was kind of killed off and Sony bought the rights to use it. From what I can recall, and I could be wrong here, but the last few Zeiss lenses were a standard chassis with just a different curvature to their primary lens with a patented coating. Figures, I don't think I could bring myself to own a Sony product even if they actually were real Zeiss glass. I've had a Canon A95 the past four years or so, works fine for what I use it for. Not expecting art out of it, that's for sure. I wish Leica made a digital rangefinder with a full-sized sensor...or the price of medium-format digital backs would come down to something remotely affordable. Neither are likely to happen though

3 volts is not that low of a preout voltage, not that preout voltage really matters all that much in most situations.

This is why you either need to understand what distortion sounds like, or find someone with an RMS clamp meter and an oscilloscope to set your amplifier.

I'll be back later.

Dave, just give the judges one of your leather facemasks to wear...that'll do the trick... (and some fuzzy handcuffs)

In the same vein as that Camaro... http://winstonsalem.craigslist.org/mcy/771555612.html I've been seeing a lot of ads for these lately Wtf, leave the antiques alone. I'm waiting to see someone do that to a BMW airhead...it's out there.

You should fly out and drive home my 82 cb750k Yeah, yeah...

I used to have a link to a torrent file containing 1-18 with all of the cover art included...when I get back to Tech I'll look for it again. It was on a public tracker so it took forever, but eh.

1.8? Did they finally fix it so you can load more than 30 or so torrent files at a time? The last time I upgraded it took forever to load all the files again...

Not getting the aspect ratio quite to the ideal for the Fostex Sigma, fiddling with the line length, etc...I got them as close to each other as I possibly could but they're slightly off what GM and Scottmoose recommend. I've talked with a bunch of people that are running them off of 2A3 single ended amplifiers, which are 3 watts per channel. I'm using 8 watts and they get louder than I can stand in my apartment

Going to see a '75 CB550K on Saturday, this one actually looks like something complete instead of a basket case

Cleaning boots? wtf?

Yeah, it takes experimenting and time, no substitute for it And they're extremely forgiving of building fuck-ups, as I discovered

Sounds like what you're describing is using large gauge wire directly back from the battery to the distribution block or amplifiers, directly...for a battery to body ground, 0 gauge should be more than enough unless you're competing and every last hundreth of a volt is important

I'd find someone locally with an oscilloscope and RMS clamp meter and find out how much power you were actually sending to the subs.

I don't know much about surround receivers in general, never bought one...basically, at that price point it comes down to which one is easier to use for you.

http://www.zillaspeak.com/bibjf.asp http://www.frugel-horn.com Places to start I built a pair of BIBs with Fostex 6.5" full range drivers, they go all the way down to 30Hz confidently and still have a great top end

Are you using a QGERTY keyboard again?

I'll let Tom fill in the rest...

Always thought it was "Quagga"...

I've got an IBM PC Jr. sitting downstairs, worked the last time I tried it. What's really sad is that the Dell laptop from 1995 that I use for portable ham radio stuff is lighter, smaller, quieter, and still has a working battery charger where my newer Dell doesn't. If I could figure out a way to put Linux on it and run USB from the PCMCIA slot, I'd use it for more things...

I'm absolutely amazed at the number of people that do, though. Then again, considering how many people have things set up, maybe not.

I wouldn't have a use for it, but at least if SSA gets into this market I'm sure it'll be done right

If your head unit doesn't have the processing, I'd probably find a way to either upgrade that or install a small outboard crossover. Adds another component, yes, but if you're relying on the amp to do it you don't have a lot of flexibility there. With a separate crossover you have the flexibility to switch amps to better suit your install if need be...and a lot of the time they're easier to adjust