Bud did many of those when he was developing it. I trust his ear. i am confident that the pattern is pretty good. EnABL2* was subtly but decidedly better than EnABL. It works, i cannot imagine living without it.
*(EnABL2* simply uses the sound of the cone to choose where the ringsets go. A bonus is that treated cones are even prettier)
Are there better patterns? Probably, but it is gonna take figuring out why it works, building a model, and doing a lot of simulations to find those patterns. Without knowing why, there are just so many possibilities.
dave
Named after the planet the Black Lectroids came from in the Buckaroo Bonzai film.
dave
I loved that film it was like part 2 of a trilogy where no one ever thought about making a part 1 or 3.
When I first saw it I felt it drew on some kind of unexplained cartoon universe, like chapter 1 was missing.
I thot there was a comic book, but wikipedia says different.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - Wikipedia
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - Wikipedia
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There are a lot of weird audiophile cables out there. There are some very demanding weird loudspeakers (like Apogee) out there also. There are some short and some very long length cables. So we can't say that all cables connected to all speakers will sound the same.
Again, not an EE here... but if one limits all variables (capacitance, resistance, inductance, etc) to some nominal target, and providing you don't have some super sensitive speaker - how in God's name do some flowing electrons sound different than others from the same amplifier to the same speaker, via different conduits? Is there a scientific phenomena to describe how cotton supposedly makes a "softer" sound when overwrapped on a strand of copper? (or other, seemingly ridiculous concept)
Is it possible that audiophiles are X-men? (sorry, I just watched Deadpool 2 last night)
I'm about to experiment with solid 12 AWG home electrical. Just because I have it.
I'm about to experiment with solid 12 AWG home electrical. Just because I have it.
And that's it.
I use 18 AWG lamp chord that I buy in bulk at Menards. I always strive to keep leads as short as possible. But in my shop I have a 35 foot lead to the speakers. It's 8 ohm speakers running off 65 watts RMS a channel. There's no apparent issue.
If you're running more than 12 amps continuous then it might be a good idea to use a bigger wire. Shorter leads also relax requirements.
That doesn't sound very convenient, and it's overkill. Solid 12 AWG THHN is very stiff and intended to be installed in EMT (conduit). But it will work, no problem.
I read about a test where they did blind testing of all different types of wire, from cheap speaker wire to lamp chord to fancy pants speaker cables. They even threw wire coat hangers into the mix. Nobody could tell the difference. That's right; nobody could tell the difference between a $600 cable, and a coat hanger!
Yep. Overkill deluxe. But I have a big run of it leftover from wiring the house. Just playing, of course. It won't stay in the installation.
I have read about that, too. LOL
I still gotta do it. My kid is a future EE, and as somebody else mentioned, previously... gotta sort out the auidophoolery early.
What if someone tested various amplifiers to see what various L, C and R combinations each one could drive without (undue) distortion or bursting into oscillation and destroying themselves and taking out tweeters out with them?
Combined with some numbers on cables and vector analysis of speakers, one could predict what would happen with any combination. It would be like ... science!
Combined with some numbers on cables and vector analysis of speakers, one could predict what would happen with any combination. It would be like ... science!