Whats everybody working at???

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Saving money for a valve buffered IGC, and a p3a.

On the drawing board (my head) there is a preamp, aleph 5, 5-6 channel pre+power amp .. and several other things (BUT money!)

oh yeah, forgot, and a pair of voigt pipes 🙂
 
I am building a SE 2A3

a PP EL84

A pair of monoblock SOZ's/powered off car batteries.

Rebuilding the chassis for my BOSOZ

Two country style wall shelves ( one for wife and one for mom)

Built in cases for my daughters room in an African Motif

Whew... I need a vacation.
 
Oh Building things! Sorry, I'm working on a analog meter power monitor and power switcher. But it's sporadic. Porjectus interruptus. At the rate assembling a working audio system is going it may be spring. I fried the woofers in one of my Prodigies last night. :bawling: So fixing that is the project first at hand. This evening I've been searching the archives and catalogs thinking of doing a dipole line array.

eStatic
 
dipole line array

That's exactly what I've been wanting to do to take the midbass load off of my ESLs. I'm envisioning a stack of 15 or 16 drivers in the 4 or 5 inch range to run from about 70 Hz up to 300-400. All integrated into a nice column that contains the ESLs.
 
Re: dipole line array

SY said:
That's exactly what I've been wanting to do to take the midbass load off of my ESLs. I'm envisioning a stack of 15 or 16 drivers in the 4 or 5 inch range to run from about 70 Hz up to 300-400. All integrated into a nice column that contains the ESLs.

Have you checked out these little 3" Aurasound drivers?

NS3-193-8A
 

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SY: Are you speaking of your Acoustats and if so what size are they. Mine were 2+2, I think. Two tall, two wide. They were and loud and clean but I XOvered at 225 Hz. Did not image to my liking at all though.

I sit as close to the orchestra as I can. I like big music big. So I'm toying with the idea of selling the Prodigies and building a "full range dipolar line array." Would sure like to hear one first. I like my chamber music as exquisitely clean as it is through my ESLs.

eStatic
 
Over the last day or so I built a 5 opamp cct that is 600Hz lpf -> full wave rect -> 1Hz lpf so I can use my multimeter on 2v DC range to measure AC millivolts. Playing around a lot measuring Thiele/Small parameters on cheap, crummy speakers.

As always, things that look simple are not. 🙄
 
eStatic said:
SY: Are you speaking of your Acoustats and if so what size are they.
eStatic

These are Acoustat stators set up in a 1+1 array. I've changed the diaphragms and coatings, changed the interface to a single transformer and passive line-level EQ, and built a frame with "wings" to get some free midbass extension.
 
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