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How you guys doing? Hows your systems hangin? Have you made any Minor/Major changes, Mods, Revelations? Discoveries? I did today, after running the Mock N-1600 crossover for three weeks and fighting with a HF that I wasn't happy with I swapped them out for the PCD ones I had before. It's much nicer now.
Feel free to share what you've been up to. I'd love to hear it.
ive been crankin' the tunes and reloading, mostly 308 and 44..
I just watched Men in Black 3 last night. My system has been the same since about last April/May. My 9444A powering Jensen Tri-ette speakers, a Sony DVD player, and my 27" Sony Wega, The Jensens were the last change I think, and that was April/May. I've been thinking about swapping in my 835A Monterey Jrs.
System is pretty well tuned and not changing much these days. That's a good thing! Have been building a little tube amp from scratch - wires and solder everywhere - that's the project of the month.
Badly in need of room treatments... systems the same... Craddeldorf I tried the 19's and 604's at the same time, as expected results.. spent 10 hours getting home from NY, should have taken 2 and a half.. wife and five year old were broadsided going 10 miles and hour by someone out of control going 55.. Thank god for german engineering, they are fine.. Bought a rather large pair of klipsch horns 40.5 L X 26.5 H X 22 D... Cant find a pack in ship place near sellers house... Just a bad week... The good news I might be building some onken W's soon.. Hope you are all doing better..
I've been trying my 604-8g's in place of model 19's for the last few days. I really think the 604's are better for jazz and small group classical than the 19's but they just don't rock the same way. I listen to a lot of different types of music so both work but not for everything. I'll try the 604's with a couple of subs for while to get a better idea of what's what.
I also have a couple of halves of a conference table (4' x 5' with curved sides) from my old office that I was going to use to store my 16" drivers on but when I cut the first two holes I thought, "hey, open baffle". I put two 421's reconed as 416's on the bottom, a 16" 420 mid and an 811/802 on top. Surprisingly good sounding but it needs a lot of crossover work. Also tried a real 416 on the mids but the 420 was better on the OB arrangement.
Built some diyhifisupply monoblock kits.
Got hold of unbuilt kits from 2007-2008 of LD91 mk 2 signature monoblocks (using the 310 pentode as driver).
Great amps and a great match with my Altec 604-8Gs. Better with the Altecs in many ways compared to the Hypex ncore monoblocks I assembled last winter.
Next project will probably be a NOS dac kit.
Regards
Kjartan
Got a whole lot going on...so much in fact, I'm not spending as much time on my sonic endeavors as I'd like.
My current speaker projects:
* construction of my Stonehenge III clone cabinet for my 604E
* Got the 604E crossovers ready to test once the cabinet is done, then will measure and tweak them down
* Designed a new passive XO for the garage (416A in 816s, 802-8Gs on 511s). need to complete the build, measure, tweak
* Build a test box for calculating Vas - want a 15" baffle version and then a 12" baffle version
* A/B listening test with Stock M14 XO vs. DEQ active XO
That ought to hold me until summer :D
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Originally Posted by cradeldorf
work.
all.the.time.
no time to do what i want to.
last 4 years have been worse.
Sorry to hear that Tom, Hope you'll get some time to yourself soon. 4 years is way too long.