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What are you guys doing during the shutdown? Hopefully you guys are getting some projects done. I’m trying to myself. I’ve also been doing some fishing on the pond since the weather’s gotten nicer. I hadn’t really got a chance to fish it yet. but the shutdown is let me try it out a little. We’ve caught mainly crappie, but I’m pretty sure they’re just breeding near the shore which is making it easy. But my wife accidentally caught a pretty big catfish. It was pretty funny. she was trying to fix her line and let her lure drop all the way to the bottom. Once she fixed her line, she started reeling it in and said I think I got a fish. then a little bit later she goes I got a big fish. Then she got it up on shore and she said, I got a really big fish! It was pretty funny.
Both my son’s caught their very first fish as well.
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Hello everyone,
Just did a zoom with my siblings and some of our grown children here in Australia. Its a good way to catch up with everyone and make sure they’re all managing.
I jagged a $5 for 4 months trial on Tidal and having great fun making some playlists and listening to a few favourite old albums. How easy it is to stream. My gear isn’t quite high end enough to really hear the difference to free Spotify but its great not having the ads. I don’t have a turntable, just mp3’s on my phone and a NAS (3 Tbyte Seagate which is temperamental).
I’ve been restoring some 1994 Accusound (Australian Brand now out of business) AS3320’s which are a three way with two 12 inch woofers per cabinet. The cabinets were badly water damaged so have needed a lot of work. Today I sanded the 2nd coat of purple paint still trying to get a smooth finish. The woofers also had some tears in the cones and surrounds which I repaired with black silicone from the hardware store. These units sound awesome, but I’m not that experienced an audiophile to be able to compare them with anything. What I have learnt is that a dedicated mid-range really is an improvement over most 2 way speakers that I have experienced. I’m a 3way convert.
One problem which I haven’t figured out yet is 1 of the four woofers is only working on a limited frequency compared with the other three which sound normal. I don’t think its the driver. I think its the crossover or maybe one of the pots on the front panel which adjust high and mid output.
Got some other speakers under restoration and for sale as well. Keeps me off the streets. Love to read about other projects on the go.
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Not too much with speakers lately, although I looked up REW compatible spl meters (omnimic), fortunately they were out of stock.
I did a little sound test comparing the JBL control 25s and Klipsch R-41M speakers. They are a little different with a larger woofer in the jbl, but the Klipsch is ported. I basically determined, either are good enough above ~80hz so I’ll just use the JBL wherever weather resistance is important.
Side note, thanks again @123Toid for the amp, that’s what I used for the test.
As for getting along day to day, doing well spending family time, also started using a steam game called tabletop simulator to allow board game “parties” online during the pandemic. Also, Pandemic did not turn out so well….
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Just sold a 8″ powered sub for $50 I picked up for free.
New project Small 2 ways but into a 190x190x190 cinder blocks From hardware for $3.10 each. Speakers and crossover from some Samsung surround front speakers I picked up free on hard rubbish. Nice 19mm dome tweeter and 75mm mid. oh and 75mm passive radiators in the rear.
Plan as satelites with a sub and put on stands made from concrete paver and stel post from the hardware.
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So far I’ve built 2 sub enclosures with 2 jbl’s 10s and a eminence labc12. Working on a set of bookshelves with 2 parts express 6.5s and the Dayton 4” coaxial.
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Well got one of them done toady the other one isn’t too far behind (only so many clamps) not completely happy with them looks wise.They’re only the second stereo speakers I’ve built. Coming from the car audio I have built plenty of sub enclosures though. Definitely a new challenge.
They sound great considering the drivers I used. Had them hooked up to my parts express 2.1 amp board. We’ll see how they sound in a man cave on more powerThey’re going in my brothers house. He wants to mount them just above his tv (really only place they’ll go in his room with everything else that’s in there and tv taking up all of the entertainment center) they’re upside down in the pic from how they’ll be mounted.
I made the boarders myself that was a bit of a pain. I’m thinking about using lumber sometime. I’m not really interested in learning how to veneer and I hate working with mdf. I don’t have a planner but considering using my router. Wouldn’t want to try it on a large project at least not on the first try.i have some left over plywood though that I need to use up so I will be building a set of smaller bookshelf’s 2 way(for a buddy)with the 6.5 buy outs and a t25 buy out tweeter with a sd270 10 dvc Dayton. They’ll be hooked up to a Dayton 2.1 amp. Planning on kurffing the bookshelf speakers making the front sides and back out of one piece.
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My wife and I started a renovation on the house we just bought. We really like making the house our own (within reason). We get new flooring in tomorrow, so I started ripping up the old flooring only to find this.
Appears whoever installed this door did not caulk around the door, so water just kept leaking there. This is what a 20year old leak will do. So today, I had to take up the bad osb and shore up any damages. Then we installed this new door. Not planned for, but it really didn’t end up being too bad.
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@123toid unsuspecting surprises like that are the worst. I’m sure you’d rather be doing what I’m working on today. Was going to try going completely around but decided they weren’t deep enough causing too many scores for me to be comfortable enough with the strength of the enclosure. So just 2 bends.
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Almost done with this build. Going to a buddy soon. I’m usually pretty careful installing drivers but since these are so cheap I guess I wasn’t thinking about being careful. Did the classic screw driver slip with my cordless driver through one of the tweeter cones. Oh well lost 3$. Another one on the way plus a 6.5 tb sub for the next build.
sub box is going with my buddies build along with the little Dayton 2.1 amp. Dayton sd270 10 box 4.0 should be around 26 hz. Not much left to do on it.
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All done just got back from installing in my buddies house. He has it in a fairly small room which helps but I’m surprised by the output and sound quality of the sub on the little amp. It actually has bass that can be felt in his room. Not on the same level as some of the set ups I’ve had but I was only expecting it to just fill in the lows. Turned out really well and he is extremely happy. Not sure exactly what he had for a stereo but it was pretty old cheap set up with some small 4” torn up looking speakers and a cheap an/fm cassette deck receive
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I built the Paul Carmody Speedsters in hickory and walnut. I upgraded the capacitors to Clarity CSA. They produce incredible sound. I’m listening to them almost constantly to complete the break in period as quickly as possible. Highly recommend this build. I’ll post a build thread if anyone is interested.
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In my down time from building speakers, we have been renovating. The floor started going down.
You can see the previous layout of the kitchen. The fridge was to the right, but that wall will be coming down.
We then created the island and added the new stove. Had to run a new gas line. BUt the stove is back up and running.
The fridge sits forward more than we’d like, so I think we will cut out the wall a little and set it back further.
We also laid the floor for the downstairs guest bathroom.
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