If Stellan Skarsgard and Natalie Portman can say "Myol-neer," any old AudioKinesis-using mouthbreather can do it. Even I can do it.
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AudioKinesis Cabs Part VI...
- Thread starter Thor
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- Nov 24, 2008
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- Owner & designer, AudioKinesis; Auth. mfg, Big E (Home Audio only)
Lemme give it a try:
Moll nirr. Mm ya'll nur. Mole near.
Breathe... gotta remember to breathe...
(and, I definitely gotta get back to work!)
Duke, thanks for the link back to the explanation of how the Hathor name came to be used on your cabinet design. Relating the so-called "Helgarian Block" move to how the cabs distribute upper-frequency energy amuses me. Love it!
Question for all of you who buy and use premium bass cabs with shiny new speakers.
My 2nd AK cab will arrive soon (can't wait!), and I usually take a couple of hours to "break in" a new cab, playing FM radio of any style first at lower volume then up quite a bit. Maybe 3 or 4 hours.
Does anybody else do something similar? Anybody break in your speakers? Waste of time?
And in keeping with the recent language dialog, in Finnish it's lämmetä (to warm up).
My 2nd AK cab will arrive soon (can't wait!), and I usually take a couple of hours to "break in" a new cab, playing FM radio of any style first at lower volume then up quite a bit. Maybe 3 or 4 hours.
Does anybody else do something similar? Anybody break in your speakers? Waste of time?
And in keeping with the recent language dialog, in Finnish it's lämmetä (to warm up).
Lowendtech
Happily trending in my own peculiar direction.
One of the last last new cabs I bought (DNA DNS410) I did. I put some fm radio into it and went off to work for the day.
I didn’t do that with the Bear cabs I bought after it. Since then., I’ve been hoovering up used boutique cabs at a crazy rate so haven’t needed to think about it.
I also have a new C112T coming so I may do it for this one to let it “catch up” to my other cabs. It’s going to make a nice bottom to my Hathor 1203.
Yep. My plan as well. Pair up my incoming 1203T under my trusty Changeling 112.
I thought maybe this was you, Duke, after cutting all those cabinet parts yourself, by hand, forever. . .
- Nov 24, 2008
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Actually he's one of my customers. His cab is late, and he is not amused. So you see, I better get back to work!
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En mi tableta, para ponder un umlaut sober un “o” , cuando pongo mi dedo en la letra o, presiono un momento, un selección de variaciones saltan arriba de la Letha. Es lo mismo que hago para poner la tilde en la o.
(De veras? Los huaraches fermentan?)
(De veras? Los huaraches fermentan?)
If there's any conflating to be done around here I volunteer to be the rocket surgeon!
The Quilter is my favorite tiny amp to date. I would like to try a D800 again (the + version this time), now that a few things have changed since I had one in 2015/16. But the Quilter is definitely the first to make me leave behind my old favorite, heavy, lower-wattage amps.
I was able to use the Changeling 212 last night at rehearsal, and it was great as expected. In about a month we'll be on a stage where I might be able to get away with using that whole stack.
I was able to use the Changeling 212 last night at rehearsal, and it was great as expected. In about a month we'll be on a stage where I might be able to get away with using that whole stack.
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Man, didn't realize I posted such a huge photo. Sorry!
The Quilter is my favorite tiny amp to date. I would like to try a D800 again (the + version this time), now that a few things have changed since I had one in 2015/16. But the Quilter is definitely the first make me leave behind my old favorite, heavy, lower-wattage amps.
I was able to use the Changeling 212 last night at rehearsal, and it was great as expected. In about a month we'll be on a stage where I might be able to get away with using that whole stack.
Interesting. I don't know that the D800+ could be any more different than the Quilter in terms of control. Quilters have the less-is-more approach and the D800+ has more than one way to get where you're going, no matter where that is. I think you'll find the D800+ to be a hi-fi sounding amp. Others call it "modern" meaning that it does not sound vintage. Clean but not particularly warm. That might be a good combo with the Changeling.
Lowendtech
Happily trending in my own peculiar direction.
I would counter this a bit. I have both of these amps. The D800+ can be as “vintage” sounding as you want. More so than I would call it “modern” but you can certainly get there as well. It spans the middle ground with a very wide margin. It can be clean but depending on technique and input signal, can get quite well into tube emulation (warm) territory. It doesn’t have the tabletop flatness of the BB8 with all its knobs at noon but it has other tricks up its sleeves that the BB8 doesn’t. And of course, doesn’t have that nice dual stage limiter as the BB8, but the BB8 doesn’t have an HPF. \(**)/
They’re both different flavours of very good. I usually grab the one that suits my mood when I’m loading up. I never feel like I made a mistake either way.
I guess it's all relative. I tend to think of Ampegs and Tonehammers as being on the warm end of the amp spectrum.
