every DIYER must see.....

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WerTicus

every DIYER must see.....
« on: 22 Feb 2004, 02:03 pm »
I have been following the work of the great Tony Gee , a dutch DIYER,  he has just finished his latest design:

http://home.hetnet.nl/~geenius/diary_final.html

It features ultra high quality components (the very best from: scan speak/ seas, mundof silver oil caps), dipolar speaker arrangement 3.5 way layout and a series cross over!

Now he is working on a DIY Avalon Opus Ceramic clone, which im sure even more people will be interested in! :P

his main site:  http://home.hetnet.nl/~geenius/

where you can find HEAPS of DIY designs, surely you can find something you like, especially if your new to DIY!  naturally allll free!

eichlerera1

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« Reply #1 on: 22 Feb 2004, 06:58 pm »
WOW!!! This guy is not your typical DYIer! His speakers are true works of art.
I urge everyone to check out his website. AWESOME.
                                                                                    PaulG

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« Reply #2 on: 23 Feb 2004, 04:06 am »
WOW !!! Some site...and all those projects...Double WOW !!! :hyper:

mjosef

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« Reply #3 on: 24 Feb 2004, 06:24 am »
Dayeem!! He must do this full time. Very impressive.

WerTicus

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« Reply #4 on: 24 Feb 2004, 11:38 am »
Yes i asked him to join the audio circle but he just does not have the time unfortunatly to spend, given that he has a wife two kids full time job and plays double bass in a jazz quartet.

though he says the andromeda has the best bass of his designs and the progress the best mid and treble... ahaha :)

build both!

Occam

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« Reply #5 on: 26 Feb 2004, 12:37 am »
Wert Dude,

You seem to missing the point.....

That beautiful midrange is (per the author) is attributable to the dipole midrange, an approach taken by Alon for over a decade.
http://www.alonbyacarian.com/index2.htm

This approach, while foregoing the benefits of  dipole bass, also eliminates the complexity of active equilization, allowing a fully passive implementation.

Baffle widith, a determinant of dipole implementation aren't onerous @ about 11" for a 350hz highpass

WerTicus

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« Reply #6 on: 26 Feb 2004, 03:40 am »
yes occam i definatly did miss that point there...  I am rather interiuged by the open baffle design...  perhaps you can point me at other DIY open baffle designs?

i know of http://www.linkwitzlab.com/ of course. :)

but other wise i havnt seen any.

JohnR

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« Reply #7 on: 26 Feb 2004, 03:52 am »
Here are a couple

http://www.kingston.neostrada.pl/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/kreskovs/NaO.html

Have a look at this:

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?action=gallery;area=browse;album=84

Then of course there's loads of people on the full range forum putting drivers onto open baffles

http://f18.parsimony.net/forum31999/

Occam

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« Reply #8 on: 26 Feb 2004, 04:58 am »
Werticus,

JohnR pretty much covered it.  His first entry is Lukaz's long lost website, which I'd been unable to locate when he moved it.... (thanks John!)

Many of Lukaz's projects a classic 3 ways, with dipole midranges, much like my decade old Alon IVs.

Besides its appeal as a passive xover, it also facilitates straightforward implementation of multi-amped line level crossovers. As excellent midranges and tweets are available with efficiencies north of 94db (PHL, Audiom, Audax) its feasable to drive the mid-tweets with a minimal feedback high output impedance tube amp (a 'hard' amp), using a line level as the mid higpass and passively implementing the mid-tweet xover.
Similarly, the woof can be directly driven with a line level lowpass for maximal control.  The caveat here is the overlap between the woofer and the mid. At a transition frequency of 350-550hz differerences between amps can be significant (I am painfully aware of this in passively bi-amping my own Alons) You really do need an excellent ss amp iff'n you're going to mix sand and hollow state... The Aksa 100N works a treat.

As John's and other urls will also show, some folks are also implementing  passive dipole 2 ways, requiring substantially wider baffles, and high Qts drivers for a bass respones into the 50s. WAF constrains me to the prior approach.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/search.php?s=85e4e609f8ccf7f1c8a684f68f59d625&action=showresults&searchid=560662&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

Figo

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« Reply #9 on: 26 Feb 2004, 11:47 am »
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19883&highlight=dipole


This is a good thread to check out.

I am very close to going ahead and ordering a pair of supravox 215 sig bicones this summer and building some OB.


maybe....


and dipole subs....


and....