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There was a time in the early seventies that I would have been perfectly happy with just four strings of the Fender maple neck precision bass variety, but then came the drugs which caused me to become more adventurous. So I got John Birch guitars of Birmingham to build me a Rickenbircher which...

Yup!, I find it’s better to let the pops through the compressor threshold attack time, just to distort the pre amp exactly the right amount to generate high frequency content spikes by squaring the waveform tops. But as not all compressors are created equal in that regard, that might not be...

Point taken I am retired and don't know what the temperatures of the adhesives are today for all the palarva they talk I thought these modern high power driver's would have glue and voice coil formers that would continue to provide support and insulation to a much higher temperature today?.:-)X

So I just sold my old Acoustic 408 for proper money to a nice bloke in Italy, so minimalist rulz don't apply everywhere.:-)X PS I don't think rock and roll deserves downsizing personally.

As a retired loudspeaker designer, the whole idea of massively increasing X-Max for low frequency power handling comes with lots of caveats. First your lovely tight magnet gap has to go from positively virginal, to about six kids later, Just to avoid the voice coil rubbing the magnet gap, never...

As distortion increases so does average power, it's a bit like compression, in effect the driver gets hotter quicker. This has the result of reducing the manufacturer handling power which would have been tested with a pure sine wave at 1khz. Displacement limited power is the factor that is most...

So we have discovered the thermal rating of a single 15" we used to need two of those for safe band levels. I have always said that until physics has managed to change the melting point of pure copper significantly higher than 1048 deg c. This is still inevitably the result of lighter and...

To take advantage of a JBL or other type of quality midrange horn, the horn it's self not just the compression driver. The crossover should be at 1.2Khz for a 2445 2" compression driver and 2380a horn. The problem is the small screw on type 1" horns used in bass cabinets tend to be only suitable...

Well I can't find an NTC D10-11 anywhere on planet earth, so are you quite sure it's not actually an NTC 10D-11. 10PCS NTC 10D-11 thermistor Thermistor High Stability | eBay Looking back at your photo's it appears you are looking for the wrong or non existent part.

Well there is a bloke from Wolverhampton called Glen, that has been known to like various orange cabs and amps including an 8X10 behind him.:-)X

Never tried it personally but a chap from the London Microphone Center swore blind that he reconed JBL K140's with Beymar cone kits.:-) PS. The geometry must have been very, very similar, still no need to reinvent the wheel.:-)X

Well the 3015LF PA Sub is a lot better outdoors than any single 10" low frequency driver. And so is the Faital's most powerful 15" PA Sub. 40Hz and below in a 10" sub gets you into the In Car Sub Market and less than 90dB SPL, the norm is to want ten inch drivers in multiples for midrange bass...

Colour schemes and rat fur aside. I have put microphones on one of the 4x10 cabs and wasn't impressed with the tone really.:-)X It doesn't appear to be braced very well and thus tends to speak its own resonance and sound boxy, beyond a certain level. The littlemark MkII amp appeared competent...

2x12" would feel so much better who ever the manufacturer, there is no replacement fo displacement as they say in drag racing.:-)X

Bulgarian speakers might be very cool. Invalid Link Removed