Those cabinets look great Jeffrey Ames - sorry to hear about your surgery gone wrong. I hope you were properly compensated...
What happened to the PRVs that they need to be repaired? I had one with a cracked basket. The measurements showed a resonance peak in HD. PE exchanged it quickly by sending me a new one right away and prepaid label for return of bad one.
Thank You I’m very pleased with how they turned out! I was pleasantly surprised to find the impedance matched the tuning when I tested them! I purchased the DATS speaker testing thingy from Dayton and now running around testing everything kid in the candy store style.
My failed surgery has had its blessings, I’ve been reunited with My first love of audio among other things I’m most thankful for, I’m limited but doing well!
I was able to take My Youngest Son Geocaching Yesterday “a goal I’ve been working towards since surgery” the little things in life is we’re it at!
I had to send in My Minidsp for repair, it’s been glitching for years and finally quit the PRVS are in good working order, Parts Express does an excellent job taking care of its costumers! I had the same experience with one of My passive radiators needing sent back, excellent service!
Looks in their website they offer two units for speaker/transducer management in DAC8 PRO / DAC8 DSP and one unit for stereo and streaming in DAC8 STEREO and third possibility is diy using their modules.
The one reviewed at ASR is DAC8 PRO which can do computer DSP where input to the 8 channels is either USB audio class 2 or 4x AES/EBU, this is my preference because when using computer DSP one have none limits of numbers of corrections (IIR or FIR) and also one can set any non texbook filters so this way hardware investment is future proof because features is never locked into box.
DAC8 DSP looks using a miniDSP nanoSHARC and probably very fine for most as is but prepare some day one can run out of number of features which hinders try out wild ideas or new wonder learnings, that said because OKTO RESEARCH also offer diy modules one can exchange the miniDSP module to a new upcoming DSP model or mod unit with same input card as for DAC8 PRO, so the diy modules feature gives some flexibility in the long run.
What probably is important for diy and modding think is use their finished unit layout and implementation, what i mean here is we know layout and implementation means something for actual performance numbers therefor to get same documented performance as in review one shall not start use own PSU or strange box layout because one will then never know if performance is same.
I remember a motel that had something like that ....
Austin “Danger” Powers style! Yeah Baby Yeah!
ordered on 26Mar and receive it today, no more extra customs fee. the ups guy said it's all been covered on my order, really great.
cosmetically no issue, need to test it at home.
this is already my 4th FR to accompany : Alpair 10P, AurelBryan Neo 8", AudioNirvana 8"
cosmetically no issue, need to test it at home.
this is already my 4th FR to accompany : Alpair 10P, AurelBryan Neo 8", AudioNirvana 8"
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I have some nice Class A amps now. This driver might benefit as it is very low distortion and revealing.
i run small testing tonight with pioneer dv300 + mauro penasa gainclone : Alpair 10P minionken, AurelBryan 8", AudioNirvana Classic 8.
Alpair is the 'darkest' and need treble boost. I still can hear 'shout' on AN & AB 8". the best yet to come is PRV, smooth vocal and surprisingly crispy treble.
Now i have to finish my baffle asap, can't wait to test on proper setup
Alpair is the 'darkest' and need treble boost. I still can hear 'shout' on AN & AB 8". the best yet to come is PRV, smooth vocal and surprisingly crispy treble.
Now i have to finish my baffle asap, can't wait to test on proper setup
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Yes, they have a remarkable vocal presentation and surprising high treble reach beyond what one would expect from the graphs. Glad they are living up to your expectations thus far. I really do feel that this driver had been a rather neglected full range high efficiency gem that could dethrone many 95dB “shouty” boutique drivers.
what I recall about prv treble is sparkling high compared to other FR is like between my beston rt002a-dipole vs other dome tweeter. prv and beston share the sparkling and crispy high while other FR like dome tweeter
I'm glad that I did not buy PM6a previously, but instead i got the opportunity to experience 4 different FR drivers, beston and T90a eventhough overall cost is higher.
I'm glad that I did not buy PM6a previously, but instead i got the opportunity to experience 4 different FR drivers, beston and T90a eventhough overall cost is higher.
Thanks FREDDY!
very interesting the charts you have published, however your premise, of the need for a tweeter is for me the real core of the matter. I have read about the good things of the 5MR450, the fact that it behaves like a true full range on steroids, but it would be useful to understand if in practice even the 6MR500 has the same behavior, or if there is a big change of voice as it sometimes happens and needs of a tweeter in addition.
Unfortunately I cannot afford to buy the two models to make a direct match, I would ask if someone could make a practical comparison to report the differences and his impressions between the two, if possible.
Thank you and greetings.
Mleod
very interesting the charts you have published, however your premise, of the need for a tweeter is for me the real core of the matter. I have read about the good things of the 5MR450, the fact that it behaves like a true full range on steroids, but it would be useful to understand if in practice even the 6MR500 has the same behavior, or if there is a big change of voice as it sometimes happens and needs of a tweeter in addition.
Unfortunately I cannot afford to buy the two models to make a direct match, I would ask if someone could make a practical comparison to report the differences and his impressions between the two, if possible.
Thank you and greetings.
Mleod
The 6MR500 barely reaches 13kHz, and drops like a brick after that. Add in the beaming, and you'll feel that the highs drop pretty fast.
I'd stay with the 500 series if you want a one driver solution.
If you don't mind dealing with a tweeter and XO, then I'd probably get something that would deliver more bass authority (bigger cone) to match with the tweeter.
I'd stay with the 500 series if you want a one driver solution.
If you don't mind dealing with a tweeter and XO, then I'd probably get something that would deliver more bass authority (bigger cone) to match with the tweeter.
You mean TransFi in Lencoheaven? He uses it to get 101dB sensitive (at 2.83v) tops for rock concert realistic levels with low distortion. I don't think the treble would be ruined - there is a slight vertical variation if you are closer than 6ft but not noticeable. I did this with dual TC9FD's in the Nautaloss and it sounded very nice - really brought out the dynamics by giving it more headroom.
HI X!
I thought of that case.
Thanks, I think I understand, so the reason is SPL .... I was doubtful about having more body, weight, consistency in the sound character and so I thought the 6MR was enough rather than the doubling of the 5MR, but it seems to me that 6 is to be excluded due to the accompanying acute deficit.
Thanks, greetings to all.
Mleod
I thought of that case.
Thanks, I think I understand, so the reason is SPL .... I was doubtful about having more body, weight, consistency in the sound character and so I thought the 6MR was enough rather than the doubling of the 5MR, but it seems to me that 6 is to be excluded due to the accompanying acute deficit.
Thanks, greetings to all.
Mleod
