GREETINGS, ALL DIYAHOLICS

[Hannibal Selector]

...From a long time lurker and once-or-twice poster.
I've got decades in and around pro audio (live venue
more than studio), and will never be a "checkbook
audiophile", so I thought dis would be de place.
From roadying/DJ'ing/sound mixing, I'm beyond
burned out on horn-loaded anything. Not real fond
of sealed or band-pass bass, have no experience
with TL, do like a well-engineered BR sound. Love
Heils and am finally working on my decades old dream
of building systems around the big ESS AMT's.
Have good fab skills in metal, passable in plastic &
fiberglass, and near-passable skills in wood, looking
to get better. Have repaired and modded the odd
circuit board, though I'm no way a bench tech. Have
designed and built a few basic 2nd order x-overs.
I'm a big believer in using the best possible drivers and
cab design & construction to do as little as possible of
having to "fix it in the mix" with complex passive networks.
In addition, I definitely like to bi-amp or tri-amp
whenever possible.

[SY]

Multiamp gets you the gold medal!

Welcome to the forum.

[Hannibal Selector]

Once ya try it, ya never go back!
Learned about that installing systems in dance clubs back when
Barry White was still new(!!!!) JBL x-overs into H-K Citation
16's & 12's into JBL stacks. In fact, those CITATIONS
were brand new. We were replacing Crowns DC 300's & such with
them. Amazingly, I don't look a day older now.
I never understood why so many checkbook audiophiles are so
resistant to the concept, talking about the expense and complexity
of it all. This, from people who unflinchingly roll thousand-dollar-a-
foot cables like tube geeks roll tubes. Ohhh-kay...

Back when Audio Control first came out with the 2XS car x-over,
(and cheap rack-mount x-overs were still in the distant future), a friend
who had a nice enough DIY mobile DJ system left the passive world
behind by scoring a 2XS cheap, scared up a clean little 12V P-S of
sufficient current capacity, and bada-bing! From a Hafler 500 (DH
505?) full-range to that below and a DH-220 on top. First time we
set it up & sound-checked, the difference was just unreal, even all the
way in the back of a good-size dance-hall with nasty acoustics.
Gotta love it.