hobie1dog

sold through CL had to include the mid/high cabinets, a BBE Max3 electronic crossover, and a RGR Model 4 preamp in the deal. Talk about losing my butt,...life stinks sometimes.

sold locally on CL. I got them sounding so good the day I sold them

I will entertain trades too FYI

I modified the original ad to include the Behringer iNuke 6000 watt amp ( yeah, I know it is only 5K watts at best )

Yes, walnut oiled, and they are a really great design. It is fun to hear the output when hooked up to a cheap garage sale receiver. Saddens my deeply beyond words to get rid of them, as they were my rear speakers in my bedroom system...the bedroom "rocked"

The Jubilee cabinets are listed at 260 lbs. so I would imagine they would be more around 300 lbs as the Eminence magnets are bigger than the Klipsch from what I remember. The Eminence drivers are 22.7 lbs each I shipped a 1943 RCA Ubangi bass cabinet several years ago to a guy in Vegas so that he could have 2 of them in his shop. It was 7 feet long and 445 lbs. Loaded it up on a pallet in my garage,by myself. Large box truck came with a tail lift gate and took it away. Wiring them in series would give you a 16ohm load, that's going the wrong way for me. When I auditioned the Jamboree speakers in Atlanta it was proven quickly that low power gave low dynamics. Mark's tube amp just wouldn't cut it, so we switched over to the more powerful SS amp and it was quite obvious of the power requirements. These are like most other dual 15" cabinets, they NEED power to give authoritative bass slam.

Yes they were

Price dropped to $300.00

I will entertain trades.

Again selling all my audio gear to survive on SS Disability( mine was granted 3 weeks after I applied, which is unheard of, but they make you wait 5 months before you get the first check...try that in your household). Everyone on here knows about these. There is one very small chip in the veneer on the top back corner of one speaker, otherwise they are in excellent condition. Checked on Fleabay and they are going from $400.00 with $125.00 shipping to $550.00 including shipping. I'm in Denver, NC ( above Charlotte ) Asking $350.00 and it might be in your favor to give me your address if interested and have me give you actual shipping costs....as the interested buyer will likely be on the West Coast

I built open baffle units using (2) Audax 100db eff high quality PR170MO units close coupled to give about 104db eff in parallel. This is the same midrange driver used in the Jadis Eurythmie speakers ( 37K per pair ) http://www.stereophile.com/content/jadis-eurythmie-ii-loudspeaker#yCvmCQAV8fPm1SD2.97 and the famous Waveform Mach 17 speakers: http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/697waveform/#FgozmizOZ1gPp0kT.97 They will cover almost ruler flat from 400 hz to 5K hz. I used a Ciare 105db eff. bullet tweeter that handles 40 watts continuous,with a 6 1/2" diameter flange and goes out to 20K. Cabinets were easy as I used Honduras Mahogany for the sides: These will also need to be sold but I don't know what to put on them for a price. Whatever it is, I will be 100% sure to lose my butt on them I got this setup from a member on the Altec Lansing forum who was burned out on horn top end units and wanted higher fidelity.

I have lately been running an iNuke 6000 with it, and unfortunately I will include it just to sell it. Wiped out all the savings this month and next month will be a negative balance of $600.00 Guys/gals, take note of this. I did 30 years of multi-craft facilities mechanics, then 2 years ago went to work assembling SPL woofers for a friends company. Next thing I know I'm unable to pick up the 75lb magnets to get them on the build table, within a year I lost about 70% of my muscles in my arms and legs due to my body attacking my nerves and destroying 95% of my nerves in those areas. Now I'm using a walker to get around and cannot open a zip-lock bag without pliers on one side and my teeth on the other. So don't live your life maxed out with no savings. And don't count on a private disability policy as they will do everything they can to dismiss your claim to ensure their corporate profits. And you will be amazed at how fast your medical bills can add up ( mine are at 15K within the last 18 months )...and all this happens "when you least expect it"

No huffing at all. I think it was 10.32 per cabinet (22" high x 44" wide x 22" deep internally) The two cabinets are bolted together.

I am having to sell all my audio coveted audio that I said I'd never sell due to having become disabled with CIDP. I had these built by a cabinetmaker several years ago and have never fired them up. They are sprayed with black lacquer. They have Eminence Omega Pro drivers as suggested by the original designer that I got the plans from. They have Tara Labs internal wiring (wired in parallel) and the huge Madisound terminals on the back that will accept 4 gauge wire ( if I remember correctly). Unfortunately the front panels will need to be made again by the buyer. The original had T-nuts in cleats inside the cabinet section which proved not to hold as well as I had expected, so I removed them and the cleats. Now during the last move I haven't located the original panels, but making new ones out of birch plywood will not be hard and will give you the chance to veneer them at that time. I am located in Denver, NC which is above Charlotte. Price is $1,000 obo 704-516-7493 cell Marty Marty

8 FT. Long sub w/ (4) SI HT18" drivers I have to sell my worldly possessions after becoming disabled with a pesky auto-immune disease CIDP, and now selling audio items I said that I would never sell. My build thread with all the pictures is here: http://www.avsforum.com/forum/155-diy-speakers-subs/1487020-8-foot-long-sub-4-18-obsidian-si-drivers-build.html Price is $2500.00 includes a Behringer iNuke 6000 amp to drive it. The sub will naturally not be able to be shipped due to the walnut butcher-block top being 8 ft. long, so prepare to come to NC and pick it up with a suitable vehicle. I am located in Denver, NC but the sub is in Claremont, NC until it is sold. This sub has amazed everyone who has heard/felt it with very good SQ. I have driven it with 5K watts or so and have never yet gotten the drivers to move more than an inch of travel. The cabinets are tuned to approximately 16hz as I am a former pipe organ builder and 16hz is the magic 32 foot long pipe that shakes the structure. Yes, this is one that you will have to experience, "hearing is believing". This likely has one of the highest WAF's out there, as the walnut top is oil stained and will withstand items being set on top of it. As solid as this is, you will likely not have things moving around on it either. It will likely keep up with any 104db eff. speaker out there as it definitely puts out equivalent bass to my 8 ft. long Ubangi and Shearer amphitheaters bins. Please feel free to call me at 704-516-7493 Marty

We need some new pictures...looking forward to a Jamboree build again.

Anyone else build a set of these yet? Bump for 2011 and since the world is ending tomorrow, I figured I'd try to find a set to audition before I build a set of my own.

I guess that my 7 years of building custom pipe organs was just an "illusion" as they say everything here on Earth is an illusion in the world of Metaphysics. Funny, when you are in a pipe organ chamber and they go down the pedalboard and reach the low C on a 32ft pipe (which is 16hz), you are not supposed to "hear" the note because you can only hear down to 20hz right??????? Well, you can hear the note, because it is also made up of overtones at 32 and 64hz. But what the hell do I know? I guess when you have made the statement PERIOD in capital letters, the discussion has ended and all the rest of us Morons know NOTHING.[] I have once again wasted the valuable remaining minutes of my life on the web, instead of being out on the water where I should be.[] Continue on Gentlemen

" What about the KRELL sub that MSRP's for $28,000 and weighs almost 500 lbs? How do the others stackup against it?" The Krell uses a standard large overhung motored woofer, I believe it was made by TC Sounds and that is their standard design that they have been using in the car audio business for years. It has long throw, but has very high BL and requires alot of power. Once again, you cannot mess with the laws of physics, as the far ends of the sub design world, is the Sunfire,(very small box, long throw woofer, extremely inefficient) or the Klipsch ( large box, short throw woofers, extremely efficient)...each one of them will displace X amount of cubic inches of air, with different sound quality as well. The trouble with the PA designs is that they have problems in the low frequency bands....send them a 20hz note and they tend to bark and bottom out as the drivers have very little throw (Xmax)...as in 6-9 mm of travel, so you have to have lots of the woofers so that each woofer doesn't have to work very hard and reach it's limit. The long throw ( 30-50mm) woofers will handle frequencies down in to the single digits and still pump out craploads of bass, but require huge amounts of power(which is cheap today) to do so, and usually have alot higher distortion to go with it.( which many people simply cannot hear anyway). Anyway, what we all need is this speaker setup and then we can all quit wasting our lives away on the Internet and just listen to our music.

" When you see an 18" out in the open they look huge ! " That's what she said.

true, a pair of 684 should do well into the low 20's with room gain....maybe 4 of them is for serious bass...like this guy.

After many months, I finally got the whole system fired up and took some measurements. The Shearer is a mid-bass monster but won't handle, and doesn't like any real low bass at all ( below 40 hz ) and barks at you to let you know it. The Shearer is running the bottom end for now, until I get my sub built, and is crossed over at 400 hz to the mid/tweeter boxes through a BBE Max-3 electronic crossover unit. A Crown MicroTech 1200 watt amp is feeding the Shearer and a VSP Labs 110 w/ch amp is driving the mid/tw cabinets. This is the completed system frequency response chart with the mic sitting at ear level and placed almost at the garage door, so it's about 18 ft away from the speakers. NOTE: The bottom end of the response curve is not the actual response as there is an ambient noise floor down in the 30hz and below range. When the music is not going, you can watch as cars and big trucks go by and watch the response down there move around. But as you can see, I'm real happy with how flat it turned out ( after you get past the Shearer hump ). And with almost no EQ tweaking involved. Naturally being made for a theatre, and having matching 105db/eff top end speakers with it, needless to say, it will get VERY loud in my 18X20 garage We were measuring an average of 120db at the back door on music @ 80% volume level. You simply need ear protection to turn it up any further. But it is SOOO clean at that volume....really fun to have it beat on your chest so that you "feel" the music. The Shearer just needs help on the bottom end, so I'm designing a sub that will be the same height of the Shearer and the same depth, but narrow for (2) 18" drivers that will have 30 mm of Xmax(one way), custom built for me by a friend with his own brand of subwoofers. We will be tuning the box for a frequency around 20 or so hertz. I have a Crown K2 that can provide 2500 watts to them, so that should get us in the ballpark of where I want the system to be at.

OOPS[8-)] Sorry, came into this late in the game,yep, I do see the model number right above the specs....silly me.[:S] I thought those specs were for the Velodyne as that was what the last 10 posts were talking about. So the Klipsch are very efficient, but lacking in low frequency extension....got it.

Falling off that fast at 25hz wouldn't work too well on one of my pipe organ recordings, that has a sustained 20 second duration 8hz note, or the many recordings that have a 32 ft pipe frequency of 16hz (tons of them around in the pipe organ world). a bass guitar has a bottom note of 40 hz and a piano of 27hz, and a Velodyne is -4db at 34hz? Doesn't really qualify itself as a true subwoofer does it? And they cost how much?[:$] and it would have very low output for Home Theatre use...submarine depth charges, T-Rex dinosaur stomps at 14hz Don't start flaming me right away. Today, I'm only playing the ever popular internet numbers game that everyone uses on each other.[]