Scottmoose said:
On the little ticker on CNN today thre was something about USD, takig a big hit againg the pond & euro...things will be in flux for a while...
dave
relax all, 5:00pm est and still the same $$. i'd like to think madisound would notify us of a increase on their web-site ahead of time?
any of you check the notify me of updates to... box at the right of the page receive anything?
any of you check the notify me of updates to... box at the right of the page receive anything?
OK, Mr Cowboy
Nobody who actually builds anything can keep their shop or coveralls that clean for long, so fess up....
seriously though, Clark - could you elaborate a bit on the gear in the rack behind you?
Nobody who actually builds anything can keep their shop or coveralls that clean for long, so fess up....
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
seriously though, Clark - could you elaborate a bit on the gear in the rack behind you?
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
Re: Captain Cave Man!
Caveman,
Please start a new thread for this as it interests me because it's the way I work now. Caveman tools requires a lot of dedication.
Saw boards, hand miter boxes, manual screw drivers. Brace and bit doesn't give much accuracy though. One of the first tools I owned was electric hand drill.
blumenco said:
Caveman,
Please start a new thread for this as it interests me because it's the way I work now. Caveman tools requires a lot of dedication.
Saw boards, hand miter boxes, manual screw drivers. Brace and bit doesn't give much accuracy though. One of the first tools I owned was electric hand drill.
>>> seriously though, Clark - could you elaborate a bit on the gear in the rack behind you?
Yeah, why don't you get a real stereo!
Great looking dog. Would you consider him a woofer?
Yeah, why don't you get a real stereo!
Great looking dog. Would you consider him a woofer?
Actually,
Actually, the Carharts are Terry Cain's old ones - very old before he got his belly. I wear them every day now. Not when oiling or gluing though, which is probably why they are relatively clean.
I have an apron that I use whenever I am gluing - It should be the color demin, but in recent months it is starting to get unusably stiff, brown and groady.
As far as the shop goes, I am personally a neat freak, and Jason Flanary too for that matter - the shop shown in the picture is Jason's, where the prototyping of the Oniyanma happened - Lovecraft Designs.
I have my own shop as well, and I run it with a production shop mentality - drilled in from apprenticing at Terry's old shop and from working in a few different warehouses, wineries large and small, and driving forklifts during college. Ergonomics and efficiency are very important to me so there are alot of funky shop made "invented" jigs that hold things in place or adjust the height of a piece of work relative to my body incrimentally or support the weight of a tool, couterbalance, etc. As an added benefit to thinking about repetetiveness and ergonomics but keeping the creative process relatively open, things get done quicker.
In my shop, you will hear words like "safety hazard" yelled in regards to a bottle of Maker's Mark that is left in plain sight when OSHA comes a knockin... Just kidding... But anyways, I am all about having a safe, clean, well lit place to toil with of course a deafeningly loud shop stereo so that you can hear the music THROUGH your hearing protection and OVER the drone of the sanders. It IS a speaker shop afterall... Shop stereo is Pioneer bufu based, of course.
I either use the shop stereo, or Etymotic ER4-S earbuds which have the bonus of being able to playing music at low volumes clearly and simultaneously deadening out the unwanted sound. - highly recommended for woodworkers who use alot of powertools.
As far as the system in the back goes, it is an old IBM laptop (not shown) running an Echo Mona digital audio interface - kernel streaming from foobar2000 with EAC ripped WAV files. The connection is old school: PCI. Potential benefit over USB? not carrying B+ and B- (?) I am hardly an expert, but in either case, with the Kernel streaming feature in place, I have only found myself searching for system weaknesses in other places. It is good to get the source "out of the way" for all practical purposes when you are designing speakers or amplifiers. I brought this system to Japan to try with Feastrex, but then I had my mac laptop running itunes and was limited to 100 volt AC. This was anything but ideal, and it made the system sound like butt.
The Mona feeds either a Tripath 2020 "Charlize 2" chip amp fed by Hitachi 12v cells or I use a variety of tube amps in different states of tweakedness. There is no wired volume control - only the software VC. With the Mona software, it seems to do just fine.
The Altec unit below is an old mixer-amplifier I was given from Whitman College's Cordiner Hall when working there during their pipe organ renovation (WOW, what a process that was!). A friend's guitar, my girlfriends Dan Bau (vietnamese monochord), or a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer gets fed through it. The single Pioneer driver there is the instrument amp cabinet. Pretty rudimentary...
The Mona can also take instrument inputs which outputs through the stereo. This setup sounds quite good, actually.
There are newer digital audio interfaces and DACs out there now and the prices have come down from the mona's stellar MSRP of 1000 dollars but I am still pretty happy with the Echo, a unit from 2001. "if it ain't broke then don't fix it." It has a good analogue output stage, which never goes out of style. From my limited understanding, Echo is a tiny company that designs quite a bit of their own chips, etc. You can get on the phone and eventually talk to the Chief Engineer. Cool factor.
Caveman fullrange is coming soon - a few weeks. Gotta throw together the initial pics we took.
Later,
-Clark
Actually, the Carharts are Terry Cain's old ones - very old before he got his belly. I wear them every day now. Not when oiling or gluing though, which is probably why they are relatively clean.
I have an apron that I use whenever I am gluing - It should be the color demin, but in recent months it is starting to get unusably stiff, brown and groady.
As far as the shop goes, I am personally a neat freak, and Jason Flanary too for that matter - the shop shown in the picture is Jason's, where the prototyping of the Oniyanma happened - Lovecraft Designs.
I have my own shop as well, and I run it with a production shop mentality - drilled in from apprenticing at Terry's old shop and from working in a few different warehouses, wineries large and small, and driving forklifts during college. Ergonomics and efficiency are very important to me so there are alot of funky shop made "invented" jigs that hold things in place or adjust the height of a piece of work relative to my body incrimentally or support the weight of a tool, couterbalance, etc. As an added benefit to thinking about repetetiveness and ergonomics but keeping the creative process relatively open, things get done quicker.
In my shop, you will hear words like "safety hazard" yelled in regards to a bottle of Maker's Mark that is left in plain sight when OSHA comes a knockin... Just kidding... But anyways, I am all about having a safe, clean, well lit place to toil with of course a deafeningly loud shop stereo so that you can hear the music THROUGH your hearing protection and OVER the drone of the sanders. It IS a speaker shop afterall... Shop stereo is Pioneer bufu based, of course.
I either use the shop stereo, or Etymotic ER4-S earbuds which have the bonus of being able to playing music at low volumes clearly and simultaneously deadening out the unwanted sound. - highly recommended for woodworkers who use alot of powertools.
As far as the system in the back goes, it is an old IBM laptop (not shown) running an Echo Mona digital audio interface - kernel streaming from foobar2000 with EAC ripped WAV files. The connection is old school: PCI. Potential benefit over USB? not carrying B+ and B- (?) I am hardly an expert, but in either case, with the Kernel streaming feature in place, I have only found myself searching for system weaknesses in other places. It is good to get the source "out of the way" for all practical purposes when you are designing speakers or amplifiers. I brought this system to Japan to try with Feastrex, but then I had my mac laptop running itunes and was limited to 100 volt AC. This was anything but ideal, and it made the system sound like butt.
The Mona feeds either a Tripath 2020 "Charlize 2" chip amp fed by Hitachi 12v cells or I use a variety of tube amps in different states of tweakedness. There is no wired volume control - only the software VC. With the Mona software, it seems to do just fine.
The Altec unit below is an old mixer-amplifier I was given from Whitman College's Cordiner Hall when working there during their pipe organ renovation (WOW, what a process that was!). A friend's guitar, my girlfriends Dan Bau (vietnamese monochord), or a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer gets fed through it. The single Pioneer driver there is the instrument amp cabinet. Pretty rudimentary...
The Mona can also take instrument inputs which outputs through the stereo. This setup sounds quite good, actually.
There are newer digital audio interfaces and DACs out there now and the prices have come down from the mona's stellar MSRP of 1000 dollars but I am still pretty happy with the Echo, a unit from 2001. "if it ain't broke then don't fix it." It has a good analogue output stage, which never goes out of style. From my limited understanding, Echo is a tiny company that designs quite a bit of their own chips, etc. You can get on the phone and eventually talk to the Chief Engineer. Cool factor.
Caveman fullrange is coming soon - a few weeks. Gotta throw together the initial pics we took.
Later,
-Clark
138s are still $120 off what they were a few weeks ago.
Now they're down to $289--
that's from $459...
$340 off / pair!
Now they're down to $289--
that's from $459...
$340 off / pair!
Sounds like the UK -dearth of Fostex units at present. I wonder if they're planning a major range upgrade / revision at some point in the not-too-distant future. The existing drivers have been with us a few years now, so it's possible.
Scottmoose said:
Word is that at least the whizzers on the bext batch of 167s will be different. From pictures i got from a fellow in Oz, the changes don't seem to be visibly very different.
I have 167s on back-order, expected ETA to WI is the last hakf od Feb.
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Solen are sold out of FE127E. I called them and they told me that they expect more stock to arrive next week. No change in price.
That might be exactly why they're increasing them. As they're in the same economic boat as we are.
The price increase is more due to the vakue of the USD -- i've been expecting one for about year.
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