Confused - Can You Help?

[Colin]

Wilmslow Audio are now dealers for Fostex and should stock most of the drivers and other bits and pieces. They also do flat pack cabinets for some of the Fostex designs. FWIW, I agree that the Cain designs are some of the nicest-looking out there.

A point not mentioned so far - are you okay with using the speakers away from the walls or would you prefer something which backs to the wall or corners? That might help decide the bass loading and extension.

[Steveal]

Don't know about the table,.....


I wish I could find that table. Someone had calculated maximum SPLs for the whole range of Fostex drivers (accounting for two speakers, room effects etc.). In fact I saw it posted in two seperate messages - somewhere...

Steve

[Steveal]

Originally posted by Colin
Wilmslow Audio are now dealers for Fostex ..

A point not mentioned so far - are you okay with using the speakers away from the walls or would you prefer something which backs to the wall or corners? That might help decide the bass loading and extension.

Colin,

Yes, I remember Wilmslow Audio from when they were in Wilmslow!

The speakers may be near side walls (room is about 18ft x 11ft) but they will NOT be near backwalls. My sofa is against one of the short walls and the speakers will be placed a suitable distace towards the far short wall, but not anywhere near 18ft. Maybe about 12ft down the room from the wall behind the sofa?

I assume this means horn type speakers won't get the location they prefer?

Steve

[planet10]

Originally posted by Steveal
the nicest looking speaker I've seen is this the Alerion

Terry does do lovely work... other than the stepped mouth and the trick base is is pretty much a rectangulr box.

The amp I'm buying is a Chinese job off Ebay with very little of the sort of distortion information you mentioned (bought on looks and price and 300B valves, I'm afraid).

I've come to consider many of these Chinese amps as pre-built kits (ie just itching to have you go in an start tweaking them). And counter to what Scott says i have seen some of these with really decent iron.

dave

[planet10]

Originally posted by Steveal
I assume this means horn type speakers won't get the location they prefer?

Close enuff to the wall any designed for a floor/wall junction would probably work. Ron Clarke's Austin 126 being one of my favorites of that type.

You could also consider something like the Bi-Fonken or the simplier to build bipolar diyAudio ref ML-TL. Being bipoles, baffle-step compansation is built-in (note here that i think that 4-5" is the sweet spot for the Fostex drivers), I am listening to FE167s right now thou and they aren't far behind (i'm working on a Fat Fonken for these as well as figuring what cone mods work)

dave

[Scottmoose]

I'm sure there are some good ones. I've only personally seen two at a 'reasonable' price with what I would classify as decent output transformers though -Shanling monoblocks with EL34s. But the component quality wasn't great in those; could be usefully upgraded. I imagine some of the higher priced Consonance products are good too. The cheap ones I've had to play with reminded me of inferior varitations of the Quad II -they just can't swing full output into LF before saturation.

[planet10]

Originally posted by Scottmoose
But the component quality wasn't great in those; could be usefully upgraded.

That is largely what i mean when i say pre-built kit.

"a tweakin' we shall go, a tweakin' we shall go, hi ho the ..."

dave