ANeonRider

He's none too bright, sorry dude

TOp

Another update on the newest project

Late? It's quarter after 9 here No idea, going to be on the road a bunch in this winter for work now.

Agreed.

Ordered the plate amp & a pair of the CSS FR125S drivers tonight.

http://www.diymobileaudio.com/forum/showth...;highlight=d310 There ya go.

1k?!!!! Oh lord . I was hoping more along the 700-800 dollar range. That was also when the CDN $$ was around 20% below the US $. Different story now. Should be able to find one for that price.

From a friend. Paid $1k in May 06

Documentation Take the measurements listed with a grain of salt, the testing done was very much sub par. I need to install PSpice to get some larger pictures of the schematics. I still have .bmp's of all of the board layouts as well.

I'm listening to the amp right now, on a pair of cheap satellite speakers. Not sure why I had it collecting dust, sounds great. Tomorrow one of the guys from work is bringing me an empty rack enclosure. I am going to transplant the amplifier guts into the rack, after I test it in the current enclosure tomorrow. I'll retest and see if it made any difference. Why? 1. More space, so I can seperate the transformer from the rest of the components as much as possible. 2. Rack mounting is ideal for the entertainment center I am envisioning. 3. Better cooling, the guts are currently pretty stuffed into the present case. I found my electronic format of the documentation. I'll be posting it asap.

I also play all of my music & movies through my computer, so a sound card is in the plan. Likely the AV-710 from Chaintech, since it is very budget friendly & everything I have read has said its performance on music & movies is excellent (I don't game).

Provincal election

I posted my build log on DIYMA, and never had any responses at all

For some reason, the Southpark episode about the aliens taking their jobs comes to mind. So tired of the whole impending doom crap, it is completely made up.

Ya... gonna be a slow month for you.

I get to do not much at work... slow work week workload wise.

I think it was close to $350-375 at the time ('04), including the Hammond case ($50). Yes, BIBs for the FR. From what I have read, the performance in one is excellent, and there is no difficulty at all building one.

I have a bunch of 1 & 2 ohm high power (50W & 100W) resistors here to use for testing the amplifiers. The amplifiers share the same components, but my case is larger than my brother's & therefore, so is the locations of components relative to each other. I am going to try to find the documentation in electionic format, I lost my copies, but my brother may still have his. If not, I will scan what I currently have in printed material. I plan on testing the following: Full power Efficiency V no load Idle power draw Regulation % Harmonic Distortion, with fundamental freqeuncies of 20Hz, 100Hz, 1kHz & 10kHz Frequency Response, at 1W & full power, input will be pink noise Signal to Noise, at 1W & full power Output Impedance Loaded Channel Separation http://www.audioholics.com/education/ampli...ment-techniques The testing will occur at both 4 & 8 ohm resistive loads. I do not have a variac, so input voltage cannot be guaranteed to be stable @ 120Vrms during the testing process. Both channels will be powered for these tests to test the true capabilities. If anyone has any other tests that you would like to see, let me know. I will be doing this tomorrow after work (2130Z, or 5:30PM EST).

Not SQ, far far far from it. SQ post with a TL measurement, thats a first.

After doing more research, I am going to be utilizing a BIB enclosure. Going to be using the GM BIB enclosure design from http://www.zillaspeak.com/bib-gm.asp. Internal dimensions Height: 60" So: 24" Width: 6 1/4" Depth: 8 3/4" A,B,C: 4 3/8" Sm: ~55 in^2

I have them here in the documentation, as well as the parts list. I also have two of them, I built one & so did my brother.

I don't know of many for around 50W per channel. I personally imagine that the parts might make it fun but cost prohibitive...but then again, I've never built a full amplifier before. If you do go the full range route and put it in a horn, you can get very respectable output with less than 10W, and there's lots of those designs around. DIYAudio.com is a good route to go there. It is likely that I will be a "representative" of sorts for CSS on the side in addition to SSA...not really in an aggressive stance but just helping those who are interested in their stuff. If you are interested, let me know and I'll see what I can do. I completely forgot... I have a DIY amp here that I built while I was in school. Why I forgot? No idea. Going to take it to work tomorrow & get some measurements. FR, plots of harmonics (100Hz, 1k, 10k) & output power. I think we have dummy loads at work I could power them into. From what I remember, I think it did 80W into 8ohms. Have to see if I can find any documentation now too. Edit: Found the documentation, 45W @ 8 ohms, stable to 4 ohms.

With shipping & border fees, I will likely pay more than what the plate amp Neil just linked me to & wait an extra 7-10 days longer for it.

Ya, a little birdie told me about it