Actually I found the creator of the Curvy Chang! 🙂
Hi everyone! Here is a little background:
I've always enjoyed music and sound - tinkering to get the best clarity, or more responsive bass etc. I've installed in many a car, and set up quite a few home theatre systems - but none all that great, just using whatever I can get my hands on - perhaps my current system will give you a clue
Yamaha HTR5760 7.1 (Matrixed) (around 80 - 90 w per channel I think)
Fronts - Cerwyn-VEGA AT-12's and a Cerwyn-VEGA center channel (don't know the model and not timbre-matched to fronts)
Rears - some old TEAC bookshelves
BR's PSB Alphas
Getting the picture? The cobbler! 🙂
I am interested in the DIY because I'll never have the budget to do what I want - which is an imposing, all tower, all aligned, 7.1 system that finally has matching speakers! 🙂
This is where it gets crazy... I'm thinking of making some Curvy Changs - definitely 8" Fostex 206's up front, and perhaps one for a center channel, and then a design similar for maybe some 6" for the 4 surrounds... or I could go really crazy and do all 8".
I should mention that I have a pretty small room in the basement for this all too... maybe this is the part where I go crazy? 🙂
Hmm... well, what I hope to do is find a nice way to set up my system and build some excellent sounding DIY's. I really appreciate all the work that has gone into design/sound channeling etc by those intelligent enough to do it, and the willingness to share plans etc.
I plan to consider my design options for a few months... since I'll be using the great outdoors as my woodshop, and it's cold in Edmonton till at least May. I will hopefully have the parts ready and my woods picked out in late may.. then the build...
I used to do some architectural modeling (I notice others here have been using SketchUp!) and rendering, and still have all the software etc - so feel free to hit me up with requests if you need too, I'll do my best to contribute on the graphics side!
Hi everyone! Here is a little background:
I've always enjoyed music and sound - tinkering to get the best clarity, or more responsive bass etc. I've installed in many a car, and set up quite a few home theatre systems - but none all that great, just using whatever I can get my hands on - perhaps my current system will give you a clue
Yamaha HTR5760 7.1 (Matrixed) (around 80 - 90 w per channel I think)
Fronts - Cerwyn-VEGA AT-12's and a Cerwyn-VEGA center channel (don't know the model and not timbre-matched to fronts)
Rears - some old TEAC bookshelves
BR's PSB Alphas
Getting the picture? The cobbler! 🙂
I am interested in the DIY because I'll never have the budget to do what I want - which is an imposing, all tower, all aligned, 7.1 system that finally has matching speakers! 🙂
This is where it gets crazy... I'm thinking of making some Curvy Changs - definitely 8" Fostex 206's up front, and perhaps one for a center channel, and then a design similar for maybe some 6" for the 4 surrounds... or I could go really crazy and do all 8".
I should mention that I have a pretty small room in the basement for this all too... maybe this is the part where I go crazy? 🙂
Hmm... well, what I hope to do is find a nice way to set up my system and build some excellent sounding DIY's. I really appreciate all the work that has gone into design/sound channeling etc by those intelligent enough to do it, and the willingness to share plans etc.
I plan to consider my design options for a few months... since I'll be using the great outdoors as my woodshop, and it's cold in Edmonton till at least May. I will hopefully have the parts ready and my woods picked out in late may.. then the build...
I used to do some architectural modeling (I notice others here have been using SketchUp!) and rendering, and still have all the software etc - so feel free to hit me up with requests if you need too, I'll do my best to contribute on the graphics side!
Hi,
I went to U of A (a long time ago 🙂)
Curvy Chang really prefers the FE207 (i just shipped a set of FE207eN + FT17 that will be going into Half-Chang (IIRC)), might be possible to arrange to hear those.
FE206 would be happier in Sachiko.
dave
I went to U of A (a long time ago 🙂)
Curvy Chang really prefers the FE207 (i just shipped a set of FE207eN + FT17 that will be going into Half-Chang (IIRC)), might be possible to arrange to hear those.
FE206 would be happier in Sachiko.
dave
Hello and welcome to the forums. Dave's definitely the man to help you get a grasp of things.
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Hi Grasp - and Welcome to diyAudio! 😀
David can EnABL you to build some great sounding speakers - any size you care to squeeze into you man cave. 😉
David can EnABL you to build some great sounding speakers - any size you care to squeeze into you man cave. 😉
Dave, I will have to get in touch with you at some point, I've tried to give myself enough time to absorb the vast amount of information here, and I really appreciate the suggestion of model choice. I'm vacillating between speaker configs/designs and honestly going on looks and hopes buoyed by the excellent sounding reviews that I've been seeing all over for this type of design/speaker. I've really got to nail down my wants and the restrictions I've got to decide what would be the best way to go.
I have a smallish room, I'd guess about 13 ft wide by about 16 feet long, 7 foot unfinished ceiling, 2 couches and a 42" LCD. I've always thought it would be really cool to have 6 towers pumping the surround for movies, and I do really like 7 channel stereo as done through Yamaha. I like the double horn designs, but perhaps this would be a little too large in my little room - also I have couches to contend with too - so not sure how the back rears would do behind a couch - driver would be free and clear, but the bottom horn wouldn't.
Anyhoo... I'll have lots of time to ruminate on that.. and Dave - I would like to check you out for some speaks.. and this enABL process is definitely interesting...
Well - thanks for the warm welcome!
(side note - I did some searching and didn't come up with anything - if anyone knows of some search terms I could use - I'd appreciate it.. I'd like to know about the different Fostex fullrange models and basically peoples opinions on a side by side comparison etc.. The only thing I found on the net was a sellers site, and it didn't look too trustworthy, I didn't find any full comparisons here - have they been done? Where can I find 'em? Thanks)
I have a smallish room, I'd guess about 13 ft wide by about 16 feet long, 7 foot unfinished ceiling, 2 couches and a 42" LCD. I've always thought it would be really cool to have 6 towers pumping the surround for movies, and I do really like 7 channel stereo as done through Yamaha. I like the double horn designs, but perhaps this would be a little too large in my little room - also I have couches to contend with too - so not sure how the back rears would do behind a couch - driver would be free and clear, but the bottom horn wouldn't.
Anyhoo... I'll have lots of time to ruminate on that.. and Dave - I would like to check you out for some speaks.. and this enABL process is definitely interesting...
Well - thanks for the warm welcome!
(side note - I did some searching and didn't come up with anything - if anyone knows of some search terms I could use - I'd appreciate it.. I'd like to know about the different Fostex fullrange models and basically peoples opinions on a side by side comparison etc.. The only thing I found on the net was a sellers site, and it didn't look too trustworthy, I didn't find any full comparisons here - have they been done? Where can I find 'em? Thanks)
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