What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Mike-Ralston I try to make all of my own stuff, but outside of some very specific Raspberry Pi power stuff, power scares me. I really don't know enough about it.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Mike-Ralston I try to make all of my own stuff, but outside of some very specific Raspberry Pi power stuff, power scares me. I really don't know enough about it.
and to think, I usually fix lights with them turned on...
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@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Messing with the crossovers for the custom speakers I finished not very long ago and goodness do these things sound awesome!! They're a full redesign of the legendary Acoustic Research AR-94SX speakers
Hey I recognize those!
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@Minion-Queen Yeah, you do, you watched me build them, lol
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@wirestyle22 Power delivery for Raspberry Pi?
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@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Messing with the crossovers for the custom speakers I finished not very long ago and goodness do these things sound awesome!! They're a full redesign of the legendary Acoustic Research AR-94SX speakers
Hey I recognize those!
I grew up with AR speakers. they are in the barn somewhere now.
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@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 Power delivery for Raspberry Pi?
Yeah. That's the only stuff I've played with. I'd love to create my own speakers etc. Are you planning on writing a guide by chance?
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 Power delivery for Raspberry Pi?
Yeah. That's the only stuff I've played with. I'd love to create my own speakers etc. Are you planning on writing a guide by chance?
You have to study crossover design. Nothing to know for speakers themselves.
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Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.
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@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.
Except for Bose, most of their design is in the marketing.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.
Except for Bose, most of their design is in the marketing.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 Power delivery for Raspberry Pi?
Yeah. That's the only stuff I've played with. I'd love to create my own speakers etc. Are you planning on writing a guide by chance?
You have to study crossover design. Nothing to know for speakers themselves.
Any resources I can read or watch?
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 Power delivery for Raspberry Pi?
Yeah. That's the only stuff I've played with. I'd love to create my own speakers etc. Are you planning on writing a guide by chance?
You have to study crossover design. Nothing to know for speakers themselves.
Any resources I can read or watch?
I've not bought a book on that in twenty years
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.
Except for Bose, most of their design is in the marketing.
B.O.S.E - Bring Other Sound Equipment
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@wirestyle22 As far as resources, most of the guys (and a few gals as well) I know who do it are either self-taught, or took courses on electrical engineering, and figured it out from there. Good places to talk to people who know what they're doing are www.tapeheads.net, there's a few guys on www.headfi.org who know speakers, mostly as a byproduct of their obsession with headphones, and a decent place to get started is www.diyaudioandvideo.com. I personally learned what I know about electronics from pulling things apart and learning how to restore old tube stereos from some local and online people.
EDIT: One thing to note, speaker design as far as the cabinet goes is extremely understated. You get the wrong volume of air inside, by just a little bit, and it'll sound blown, or if you put speakers designed to be acoustic suspension in a cabinet that's set up for bass reflex.@brianlittlejohn LOL, so I'm not alone in thinking BOSE is awful stuff. I keep seeing old BOSE gear go for sky-high prices worthy of some really special stuff, and they sound awful.
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@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn LOL, so I'm not alone in thinking BOSE is awful stuff. I keep seeing old BOSE gear go for sky-high prices worthy of some really special stuff, and they sound awful.
No highs, no lows, must be Bose
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@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn LOL, so I'm not alone in thinking BOSE is awful stuff. I keep seeing old BOSE gear go for sky-high prices worthy of some really special stuff, and they sound awful.
Anyone in audio knows that Bose is the reference standard for the worst speakers sold. Every shop that I know (knew) used to keep Bose to show how bad speakers could sound and to open them up to show the shoddiest design and construction. Literally the worst "non free" speakers that money can buy.
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@scottalanmiller With the hot glue holding the multitudes of little 3-inch drivers in? Lol
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@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller With the hot glue holding the multitudes of little 3-inch drivers in? Lol
And all kinds of tubes inside the speak to make "reverb" on one channel and not the other. Some Bose aren't even STEREO!
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@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Messing with the crossovers for the custom speakers I finished not very long ago and goodness do these things sound awesome!! They're a full redesign of the legendary Acoustic Research AR-94SX speakers
What, not wall hanging?
