Was going for a DBA but at the moment I cant justify the cost of 4 more woofers.
Hard to photo a dark room.
Messing around with these 4 way dipoles modeled on Linkwitz LX521.4. Drive units from top to bottom are Neo3PDR Tweeter, SEAS FU10RB Upper Mid 4", SEAS SEAS U22REX/P-SL 8" Lower Mid all without baffle, SEAS L26RO4Y 10" SUB in H-Frame, crossed over presently at the same points as SL's 7kHz,1kHz & 120Hz, but with variable ASP based on 3x Nelson Pass' DIY BIAMP boards.
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There's a vid on YouTube of someone punching a sub to generate electricity to light up leds, I think he broke his hand - not realizing he'd be hitting the speaker magnet after about an inch; but perhaps some active bass traps could recover some power.
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The room is about 5,3x3,3x2,3m. A bit to narrow but it works pretty well. The subwoofers are 25 or 26 cm deep.
There's also a big opening to the left in the picture were it will be a door in future.
Refreshed AR XA turntable with a Shure M55E cartridge with a new stylus so I can keep track of the hours on it.
Feeds a Little Bear phono stage, and volume is controlled by a new 100K carbon film resistor stepped attenuator in an old teak case, originally using a 10K attenuator intended for all solid state set up.
Not state of the art, but good enough for me controlling a little highpassed 10 watt class A power amp and a plate amp for an open baffle stereo pair and open baffle bass panel.
Feeds a Little Bear phono stage, and volume is controlled by a new 100K carbon film resistor stepped attenuator in an old teak case, originally using a 10K attenuator intended for all solid state set up.
Not state of the art, but good enough for me controlling a little highpassed 10 watt class A power amp and a plate amp for an open baffle stereo pair and open baffle bass panel.
My Duane Brown's "Dayton 4's" i built around this time last year with recycled Rimu for the front panels. Some more pics and text here if you are interested.
Thanks, it's just a 15" M1 MacBook Pro for work. My desktop is hanging off under the desk in a custom carrier/hanger (desk is height adjustable). Annoyingly the M1 has issues with audio stuttering outputting over USB when low on memory.
So instead I have a Raspberry Pi sitting behind it running a Mopidy music server and raspdif which gives me SPDIF output from it via the GPIO to the DAC.
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M1 MacBoook Pro cam ein 13, 14, 16” sizes.
I have an M2 MacBook Air. Nice machines ;^)
dave
Great to my ears (and others that have listened to them). Surprising amount bass for such little speakers! And I never find them fatiguing. Just all around a much better speaker across the range than some basic JVC bookshelves I had previously that were much larger than these. I put a lot of effort into making them, so to say I was relieved when I heard them is an understatement!
Ah yes you are right, my bad it's the 2021 16" 👍
It’s not stable yet. The most disappointing thing is the sound wouldn’t play through the hdmi or usb ports, just through the tiny mac speakers. The last version I was experimenting with was Ubuntu and it was working pretty good. After about four different versions of Linux my M1 forgot how to boot. I had to do a factory reset and reload from time machine, it’s fine now. I like Linux as my music server though.