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On 8/20/2018 at 7:19 PM, Schu said:
Cable for what... speakers, power, interconnect, data transfer?
Your answer is literally in the first sentence of the OP.
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@efzauner I made no claims to it being bad. I stated that my industrial electrician experience says it's a bad thing to use solid core conductor in higher frequency applications. I was looking for an explanation as to why that "best practice" is different in audio applications.
Your second post was the answer I was looking for, rather than the condescending attack of your first post. I am not an engineer, I'm a motor controls tech, and a damn fine one. With that said, I hadn't really considered the fact that speaker wire isn't carrying much of anything, current wise. I deal with 480VAC and 250vdc, along with 4-20mA current loops, 0-10vdc bi-polar analogue control, etc... Audio is outside my realm of knowledge, and that's why I posed a question instead of a claim.
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44 minutes ago, CECAA850 said:
Duratex is a lot cheaper and you can do it yourself.
Haven't used it before. Same stuff all the kids are using on their wheels?
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2 hours ago, CECAA850 said:
I wouldn't schlep that thing around, it's too nice. Look at something like a Groove.
Lol. Maybe if I can find another pair of The Sixes for 450, I'll get them and have them Rhinolined. Idea not my own. Saw a pair of LS's on CL that had been done that way for four duty.
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19 minutes ago, CECAA850 said:
Better than laptop speakers? That's a safe bet.
Well, yeah. Lol. I was meaning more along the lines of portability. Is the build quality well enough to be packed and moved every few days?
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I've seen many people recommend using solid core wire for their speaker cables. Now, speaking as an industrial maintenance electrician, I say this is absolute madness. Why do I say this? Skinning! The skin effect is very well documented. High frequency signal/power tends to travel on the outside or the skin, of the conductor rather than "saturating" the conductor. So in my world when dealing in VFD(usually up to 240Hz) applications, using solid core wire is a huge no-no, and instead we opt for stranded wire with many many wires making up the strand.
So, if someone has the knoweledge, please explain to me why using solid core wire in an application that ranges from 5Hz up to many 10KHz ranges is preferred, let alone recommended.
Thanks!
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Referring to oneself in the third person... Ballsy! Only d-bags, geniuses, or the very wealthy/odd do this. So, which are you?
OT: I think it's an interesting concept. Before we go screaming that the vocalists are on their way out and sounding 7 horns, let's just consider that this is simply a concept for a tech that can be put to use in many applications outside music.
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I've been considering getting The Three as a portable solution. I spend a lot of time away from home for work, and having some audio better than my laptop speakers or the hotel TV.
Seem like a good solution for that duty?
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Massdrop has a drop for these for $59.99. Pretty good deal when they retail for $179.99. Drop ends in three days so shipping should be pretty quick.
Edit: Well, looks like long term users say these things are garbage. Would explain the wicked price drop.
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Can't go wrong with the kits from tubes4hifi! They can get a little pricey, but well worth the money.
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Found a local ad for some LS's. They appear to be quite old. The serial numbers are stamped into the wood, stated the tags fell off years ago. 16S471 is one of the numbers. Guy is selling them for his father, who is supposedly the original owner. I tried checking through "that" thread, and couldn't quite make heads/tails of it.
Sorry, but gmail isn't letting me save the images, so SS it is.
Some help would be greatly appreciated!
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Lol
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31 minutes ago, teaman said:
Also, keep an eye out for the Sixes to go on sale. They were just on sale for $479 a pair and free shipping at Newegg Flash!
That's when I bought mine, this most recent time. They only had the ebony. It wasn't my first choice, but for the price, I couldn't resist.
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I haven't found any stands for mine yet. I actually just have them on top of my old speakers, lol. A buddy recommended these, but I haven't verified the dimensions for them yet. Also, Worlwide has them in stock. If you can wait, WW have been running them through NewEgg Flash sales for $470 quite often, it's how I got mine.
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Are you insinuating that one couldn't use the HT bar for up front, and still have your rear channels and sub? It's a passive bar.
I like the idea of it! Not much room for speakers by the TV, so to it would be ideal, and then pull wire to the rear for those channeled.
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57 minutes ago, boom3 said:
Klipsch went to the GRP K-401 in the 1990s. There is a cover of Speaker Builder that has a great pic of the K-401 production line. I can't speak for Klipsch, but the metal horn rang and was frequently damped with putty. The K-401 is much more rigid. I bought one to use in my center channel rig and it it is quite inert.
Paul was asked (more than once I'm sure) why the K-400 wasn't injection molded before, and in my presence about 1978, said, "The mold would stretch the account's butts (euphemism for the forum ) out to here."
Ahh, well thanks for the info! All of the pictures that I've seen inside of the Khorns have shown metal horns. I did a quick Google image search before my query to make sure I wasn't posing a stupid question. Turns out, my GoogleFu isn't as strong as it used to be 😅.
From my knowledge of PIM, that horn is very expensive to make. Between lack of volume and it being a complex mold that likely requires the cavity to be unloaded by hand instead of robot, it must be. Those two things alone, plus the probable high amount of short shots resulting in plenty of scrap, results in a high cost per part.
It would be very interesting to know how many of these horns(just that horn, not the whole speaker) are sold on an annual basis.
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1 hour ago, sharp3d said:
I remember those towers! Wasn't there a small shoppette near by that also rented videos? Haha I used to love playing soccer in Carny Park.
But yeah the star wars laserdisc collection. It's such a nice set.
It's 3 discs per movie! haha
Here's a little more about the collection. I got mine for only $50!
Yeah, several small shops on the drag up to the US elementary school. The best sammiches ever were there, guy named Bennie and his dad ran the small deli. It's been a 20 year hunt for those spicy marinated mushrooms he would load them up with.
Carny Park brings back serious memories. Dad used to have me run/bike with him and we'd hit all those little fitness stations around the park. The pool was always nice to go to. When they put in that big water slide, it was ON. Haha. What years were y'all there?
I'm very jelly of the LD set. I gotta find one!
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They look like they've been used well. Trying to get info from seller.
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Interesting. I wouldn't have thought of using glass filled plastic for the horn. It is dense, for sure. Quite the impressive mold that must be. The amount of scrap I see at some of my plastics customers on much simpler IM parts makes me think this has a wicked amount! How does the sound compare to the previous metal horn, and why was the GFP selected?
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34 minutes ago, sharp3d said:
WHOAH! Crazy! My dad was Air Force and we were stationed in Naples in the early 90's! I remember the base entirely as well at the NATO base.
My laserdisc collecting started because I'm a huge Star Wars fan. The highest quality, untainted by George Lucas versions are on Laserdisc and the collectors edition just looked so cool. I found a copy on craigslist for $50. After I had the movies, I realized I had to be able to watch so I snagged a higher end player for dirt cheap. The quality is still pretty good, maybe a rung or two below DVD and the audio for a lot of big movies is excellent. Add the the fact that basically every movie from the late 70's on up till around 2002 was released on laserdisc and can be had for about $1-5 and like you pointed out... who wouldn't want to watch Robocop on an antiquated disc based medium like Laserdisc? It's just kind of Cyber-Punk. Also Laserdisc was the first medium that criterion released movies on. 2001: A Space odyssey or Blade Runner: Directors Cut, Criterion on laserdisc? Yes please! haha There's just something fun about watching movies I grew up loving in all it's grainy composite video glory.
Small world! We were there '94-97. Spent a year in Naples at the Hotel, then a year in Pinatamare at the Towers, then a year in Caserta. I wanna take the wife sometime.
I remember going to the AFSOUTH NATO station several times to visit a friend of dad's.
And damn, now I wanna find an LD player and the original trilogy. I still have my old VHS set "enhanced" by Lucas. I still can't believe he chopped up all the original film. Having a 20MP transfer of the originals would be pretty sweet.
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1 hour ago, sharp3d said:
Gotcha, well for now I'm pretty happy. I've always had 5.1 systems in a box with pretty weak subs, so this is a massive upgrade for me. Plus I'm not sure if the 12" sub would fit under my cabinet that I built to hold my Laserdisc player.
Mmm laserdisc. I remember the first one I watched- Robocop 2. Dad had just got stationed to Naples, Italy and the NEX had one playing in the HT room. They had the VHS playing on an identical projector TV right next to it. The difference was night and day. One of those odd memories I've held on to. I suppose because seeing that giant disc.
Crazy to think that DVD took so much time to happen after the short life of LD.
Begs the question though... Why on earth? Some releases that didn't make it to DVD that you like?
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