Built these for to go with the Mach5Audio IXL-18 in the sonotube I just finished:

I figured I did 324 passes with the router. Baffles are 2.25" thick, backs are 1.5" thick. Took 5 sheets of MDF with (2) 4" strips left over. yes they are HEAVY!!

Each driver is in .5 ft^3 tuned to 38 Hz. These are based on the ART array, but doubled. Tweeter spacing is not great, but we tested before I cut the holes for the tweeters, and they sound awesome. . .

They are driven with an old school 380 x 2 RMS Carver amp, and it is like being at a concert in this guy's living room. these along with the 18" sub on 1000 watts is nuts!!!

Brian

Edited March 22, 200817 yr by BKOLFO4

HOLY SHIT! SWEET!

Interesting Although I bet that spacing shown in the picture is wayyyy too small to get a good image out of them

What kind of crossover did you use?

These things were built for loud 80's, rap, and techno music. . .and man do they perform

The XO's are the ART array 12 dB/oct for the woofers. The woofer section of the ART arrays is 16 ohms, so I just built two sets and ran them in parallel. The tweeter XO is a simple in line cap like the ART array, but adjusted for a pair of 4 ohm tweeters in series. I was really worried about how they would sound, but they work awesome for the type of music Skip listens to.

Nice project!

holy cow. i wish i had the room for a setup like that. how much do you think you have in it money wise?

I built these at just under $1000 for materials. If I was building a set, I would have to charge at least $1600.

Mmmm, nice looking line arrays there.

Thanks. . . .

That is insane. I hope to build a line array in the future, but probably not at that scale.

Just over listening to them again last night. With Skip's front door open, you can hear these things nice and clear a half a mile away!!!

They are so loud that he wants more subwoofer now. Have not decided what yet. . .Maybe another IXL18 or (4) MJ 18's. We even talked about two more towers with (8) 12's in each one. . .

Wow! Nice work.

Building another set of cabinets the exact same size as these. Going to fill them up with 12" woofers to get more kick in the 40-100 Hz range.

Thinking about these, unless someone has another suggestion at the same price. . .

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cf...tnumber=295-490

Ended up buying (8) of these:

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshowdetl.c...FTOKEN=94730047

And another 1000 watt subwoofer amp!!!

Will post pics when they are complete.

Brian

Edited April 2, 200817 yr by BKOLFO4

Convince him to let you put holes in a wall, and run those IB

Got the basic cabinets done. Installed the drivers and gave them a test run. Sound awesome. Just what we were looking for - good strong, clean bass from 35-100 Hz.

Ordered laminate for them yesterday. Just need to roundover the front edges and paint the fronts and backs.

Subwoofers are complete. Next picture will be a full picture of the living room!

DAMN MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is Skip's living room:

(4) Vifa DX25TG tweeters

(32) Dayton 5.75" mids

(8) Dayton Series II 12" woofers

(1) Mach5Audio IXL18 subwoofer

Carver TFM-55 380 x 2 watts RMS amplifier

(2) Dayton 1000 watt RMS subwoofer amps

New 53" LCD since the last picture.

I would just like to say that you and your freind skip are gods.. that has some serious shock and awe factor to it I'd give my g/f's left nut to hear that setup.. I have a freind who once had 10 - 15" JBL Gti's Hooked up like that in his living room in stacks up to the ceiling with 2 front stage 15" in i/b as mids and apex horns runnin off 4 crown's and I thought that had some shock value to it but I'm going to have to have him take a look at yours ... it's fantasticular man..

oh my god! that is rediculous!

is his house, family, and neighbors (i mean by other towns nearby) up for this? damn, if i had this in my basement, my whole house would fall and i'd still be happy.

Wow. All I can say