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Monsoon

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New here, hello everybody.
« on: 27 Feb 2022, 04:45 am »
I got into speaker building in the late 80's. After reading quite a few issues of Speaker Builder magazine, I did my first project which was a copy of Dynaudio's Consequence, with 4 of the 30w100's as opposed to the 30w54's that Dynaudio put in the Consequence.
The sub cabinets were beasts, and I had custom made monitor cabinets done to the dimensions of the Ohm Walsh cabinets. The truncated pyramid shape really appealed to me. The top end had a pair of D-21's, D-260's, D-76's and I went with the 24-100's for mid bass.
I decided not to fuss around too much with crossovers, so I went with an electronic crossover.
Those speakers sounded as good at the time as any speaker i'd heard in the high end shops in my area. And with a pair of the original Adcom rackmount GFA-555's, the speakers were loud!
Since then I've made various much smaller speakers for the wife, kids, the garage lol, etc.
Anyway that's where i'm coming from!

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Re: New here, hello everybody.
« Reply #1 on: 27 Feb 2022, 04:57 am »
Welcome to AC  :thumb:

Tarheel

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Re: New here, hello everybody.
« Reply #2 on: 27 Feb 2022, 12:04 pm »
Welcome aboard!  Newbie here to.

Phil A

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« Reply #3 on: 27 Feb 2022, 02:46 pm »
Welcome!

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« Reply #4 on: 27 Feb 2022, 03:03 pm »
Welcome!

My first serious loudspeakers were I.M.Fried Model M's which consisted of LS3/5a clones (small 2-way monitors) with a matching 6 cu. ft. two fold transmission line cabinet with 8 inch woofer that I built from a kit.  Driving them were Hafler DH-101 preamp and DH-200 power amp (100 wpc) kits, circa 1980.  They were way too much (capable of 114 dB at 17 Hz) for my house, but sounded fantastic in a 160 seat, 20,000 cu. ft. chapel driven by a 30 wpc NAD receiver.  Those were the last kits I ever did. 

For the last 17 years have been using Bob Brines commissioned transmission line floor standing single driver loudspeakers (FTA-2000 that use the "mighty" Fostex F200a AlNiCo drivers with no stinking whizzer cones).  Had the drivers "EnABLed" by Bud Purvine himself (inventor), added "Late Ceiling Splash tweeters (Duke LeJeune's suggestion), and use three subwoofers (ala Floyd Toole/Earl Geddes) in an 8ft x 13ft x 21ft dedicated/well insulated room with ten GIK 244  absorption panels (find them here on Audio Circle) and three tall bookcases that I can arrange as I like for diffusion.