DevilDriver

Topic? I love when a prof agrees to drop the lowest. And someone earlier mentioned that they weren't allowed to drink in their engineering faculty....I think it's actually encouraged at the local University here.

Yeah, I guess we're both right. It's vibrational movement. Fans definitely can't do that though. With the right controller they can. The eminent LT is a fine example of this and where the whole conversation started from. Is that the fan thing in that one video floating around? off to google Yup. I think it's the LT but I could be wrong on the model name. I know it's an Eminent Technologies product, though. Your normal desktop fan is capable of doing it also (otherwise we wouldn't be able to hear the sound of the air going over the fan blades). Take that potential, develop a controller that can accurately control the fans motion to match that of the input signal, and you have that Eminent piece. Kind of cool but really, really hard to scale up. Imagine trying to start and stop a fan on a dime on transients....wouldn't work too well. As I understand it, that's why the bandwidth is limited to around 25 Hz...it just can't accurately do anything higher than that. And of course, our ears are a lot less sensitive in the bandwidth that they are marketing it so a little loss of accuracy is no big thing. But the damn thing costs something like $17,000. Wanna split on the costs with me?

Yeah, I guess we're both right. It's vibrational movement. Fans definitely can't do that though. With the right controller they can. The eminent LT is a fine example of this and where the whole conversation started from.

Check the codec used to encode, not the bitrate. Look for VBR (variable bit rate) mp3's encoded with the v0 or v2 setting. Google for a program called audio identifier that will help you. If it is CBR, then it is usually safe to assume that at a lower bitrate, the quality will be lower (although this says nothing about transcodes). If it is VBR, the bitrate is not a guarantee of quality in any way, shape or form.

I only have one pair of pants that requires a belt and I'll be damned if you ever catch me without a belt on. That's just stupid. I don't understand how that would be comfortable, cool, or intelligent.

FTW = "For The Win"

Good as always, Brian. Well done.

Early in the morning but Killswitch Engage at the desk here is a must.

Think more deep we must.

what is sound if it's not the movement of air ? x73

I pretty much exclusively drink beer and occasionally a Tom Collins. Hard alcohol is too hard on my stomach.

I think Scott said he wouldn't be doing that anymore because he's had too much trouble in the past with shipping companies when doing that.

There are some pictures on cardomain. I'm waiting to see the Ascendant Audio H2.

No matter what variation he tries to put on it, it's still a 4th order bandpass acoustical filter. When it comes down to it, you really just have different filters: 2nd Order - sealed and IB 4th Order - bass-reflex and the sealed rear chamber bandpass 6th Order - Front and rear ported bandpass 8th Order - Three chamber ported bandpass (typically one or two of the chambers firing into the third chamber) Everything else that isn't a horn or TL is just a variation of those 4, but the characteristics are extremely similar no matter what that variation is.

I think Kyle went travelling and thus his site may not be totally up to date. Exodus Audio is a brand run by Kevin Haskins and you can see their products and info here: www.diycable.com

The HO will work just fine. The Shiva-X and Tempest-X are actually quite different than the original; for starters, they utilize XBL^2 where the old ones did not.

I couldn't tell you to be honest, but I can say that when you get to that level of competition, people tend to keep things very quiet. They don't want others to know their secrets, you see.

In my opinion, one of the absolute best budget subs (in terms of output and linearity) would be the Shiva-X or Tempest-X from Exodus Audio. They are both about $20-$30 higher than your budget, though. This is also a really good option. Keep in mind that truly flat extension to 20 Hz won't be easy unless you go ported (larger enclosure) or sealed with a lot of stroke.

Oh, we should really patent that! The only clarification I would make about that score is that it is the highest recorded score in competition, but it is not a "World Record". World Records in DB Drag can only be set at 3x events and this particular score was done at a 2x.

PIIHB? Funny, the only posts I make at 306 are the ones you tell me to make.

LOL! I have a bit of a young face so people regularly guess that I'm about 23 or 24, but I get compliments on maturity on the regular. There is a girl here who told one person her age but had her give a vow of secrecy, at which time I said "So you're 5 then?"

Can someone tell me why the hell someone would be ashamed of telling you their age? Do they think that we don't all get older? Doesn't make any sense to me.

You must be a member for about 8 years here before you can give valid advice. In other words, we're all clueless.

If you want very cheap, I'd say Aura NS3 or Hi-Vi B3S. Both smaller drivers but under $20 each with pretty good response over a wide bandwidth, and the TQWT BIB gives the stronger bottom end that is the weakness of both drivers. Works pretty well on music, just don't expect floor shaking impact.

I knew there was one I was forgetting. You post relatively frequently there, yes? I haven't stopped by in a few weeks. Yeah but then again lossless audio on a portable device is really just a waste of batteries if you ask me... It's actually more of a convenience factor for me. It is irritating as hell to have a large library of quality FLAC material and have to re-encode this every time I want to put one of those albums on my media player.