Project over the past month.

[BKOLFO4 29]

Built these for to go with the Mach5Audio IXL-18 in the sonotube I just finished:

I figured I did 324 passes with the router. Baffles are 2.25" thick, backs are 1.5" thick. Took 5 sheets of MDF with (2) 4" strips left over. yes they are HEAVY!!

Each driver is in .5 ft^3 tuned to 38 Hz. These are based on the ART array, but doubled. Tweeter spacing is not great, but we tested before I cut the holes for the tweeters, and they sound awesome. . .

They are driven with an old school 380 x 2 RMS Carver amp, and it is like being at a concert in this guy's living room. these along with the 18" sub on 1000 watts is nuts!!!

Brian

Edited March 22, 2008 by BKOLFO4

[Mark LaFountain 1,054]

HOLY SHIT! SWEET!

[JimJ 11]

Interesting Although I bet that spacing shown in the picture is wayyyy too small to get a good image out of them

What kind of crossover did you use?

[BKOLFO4 29]

These things were built for loud 80's, rap, and techno music. . .and man do they perform

The XO's are the ART array 12 dB/oct for the woofers. The woofer section of the ART arrays is 16 ohms, so I just built two sets and ran them in parallel. The tweeter XO is a simple in line cap like the ART array, but adjusted for a pair of 4 ohm tweeters in series. I was really worried about how they would sound, but they work awesome for the type of music Skip listens to.

[filtor1 13]

Nice project!

[rollerdj 0]

holy cow. i wish i had the room for a setup like that. how much do you think you have in it money wise?

[BKOLFO4 29]

I built these at just under $1000 for materials. If I was building a set, I would have to charge at least $1600.

[topgun 262]

Mmmm, nice looking line arrays there.

[BKOLFO4 29]

Thanks. . . .

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

That is insane. I hope to build a line array in the future, but probably not at that scale.

[BKOLFO4 29]

Just over listening to them again last night. With Skip's front door open, you can hear these things nice and clear a half a mile away!!!

They are so loud that he wants more subwoofer now. Have not decided what yet. . .Maybe another IXL18 or (4) MJ 18's. We even talked about two more towers with (8) 12's in each one. . .

[///M5 2,833]

Wow! Nice work.

[BKOLFO4 29]

Building another set of cabinets the exact same size as these. Going to fill them up with 12" woofers to get more kick in the 40-100 Hz range.

Thinking about these, unless someone has another suggestion at the same price. . .

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cf...tnumber=295-490

[BKOLFO4 29]

Ended up buying (8) of these:

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshowdetl.c...FTOKEN=94730047

And another 1000 watt subwoofer amp!!!

Will post pics when they are complete.

Brian

Edited April 2, 2008 by BKOLFO4

[JimJ 11]

Convince him to let you put holes in a wall, and run those IB

[BKOLFO4 29]

Got the basic cabinets done. Installed the drivers and gave them a test run. Sound awesome. Just what we were looking for - good strong, clean bass from 35-100 Hz.

Ordered laminate for them yesterday. Just need to roundover the front edges and paint the fronts and backs.

[BKOLFO4 29]

Subwoofers are complete. Next picture will be a full picture of the living room!

[Godsmack 361]

DAMN MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BKOLFO4 29]

Here is Skip's living room:

(4) Vifa DX25TG tweeters

(32) Dayton 5.75" mids

(8) Dayton Series II 12" woofers

(1) Mach5Audio IXL18 subwoofer

Carver TFM-55 380 x 2 watts RMS amplifier

(2) Dayton 1000 watt RMS subwoofer amps

New 53" LCD since the last picture.

[DD99Z 0]

I would just like to say that you and your freind skip are gods.. that has some serious shock and awe factor to it I'd give my g/f's left nut to hear that setup.. I have a freind who once had 10 - 15" JBL Gti's Hooked up like that in his living room in stacks up to the ceiling with 2 front stage 15" in i/b as mids and apex horns runnin off 4 crown's and I thought that had some shock value to it but I'm going to have to have him take a look at yours ... it's fantasticular man..

[lilblacky 0]

oh my god! that is rediculous!

[slim2fattycake 85]

is his house, family, and neighbors (i mean by other towns nearby) up for this? damn, if i had this in my basement, my whole house would fall and i'd still be happy.

[KU40 173]

Wow. All I can say