Recent content by thoglette

+1 Pack everything away somewhere safe. First decompress: find somewhere near, quiet and low-energy. Take a good book or some old magazines and then sleep under a tree for a few days, thinking about nothing and doing less. A fishing pole works marvelously as a prop. Then plan and take...

Crap yeah - thought I said that already. Look at Tom Danley's stuff - the SH50 outperforms most vintage systems (flat 50 to 18K,100db/w, 127db continous), then there's the serious stuff like the [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] (it does weigh nearly 600#) operating frequency range 28 Hz -...

agreed (I did say use four of them :-) ) and hence my questions about "which 'back-in-the-day' is the OP talking about". The GPA drivers are EXACTLY what was around in the '60s & '70s and being used in the big on stage quad boxes - but labelled "Altec Lansing". Either that or something by...

If the Danley Sound Labs devices are too "modern", Great Plains Audio is still doing the old Altec drivers. 4 x 15 will get you 110db/w or there abouts. More if horn loaded. Hoffman's iron law says these things are BIG Again, google "w bin". They See how this guy does it. Crap fidelity but...

Having recently been to a gig where the PA was set up with about +20db on everything below 200Hz, I understand where you're coming from. Even if the "background music" sounded really, really weird as a result. I was wondering which "back in the day" y'all are referring to as no-one "back then"...