Ambient Compilation release from Melbourne label Cyan Music, featuring Steve Law, amongst others:
http://cyan-music.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-selections-vol-1
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BM1600​.​A1 by BM1600 : drone ambient by the acid purveyor
Some cryptic ambient/drone from the mysterious BM1600 on Bandcamp:
G3D9 – LOST EP [MACH010] Released 24:06:2013
Digital music distribution has reached a pretty good state now, with quality FLAC or WAV online versions of most new music releases being available at the same time as the CD, or even sometimes being the only format smaller releases are using. Since making all these speakers and amps is mostly for the music we play through it, here are some releases of note.. (though maybe not always flac download releases, or even sticking to electronic music). Called “Do Yourself A Favour” as a tribute to Countdown and Molly Meldrum.
First Up:
New release from G3D9 aka Scott Guyver3 as we knew him in the old Clan Analogue days.
Nice meat and potatoes minimal techno, well fitted to the excellent local Melbourne MACHINE label sound.
Bandcamp page to get at the goodies:
http://machinelabel.bandcamp.com/album/lost
Also available at a bunch of other places, but I prefer Bandcamp for the nice crispy flacs:
http://www.beatport.com/label/machine/18275
http://www.junodownload.com/products/g3d9-lost/2221008-02/
https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/lost-ep/id651944783?uo=4
http://www.amazon.com/Lost/dp/B00CXS3QHG
Unfortunately I couldnt make it to the launch party, but there is a live set recording available here:
http://www.mixcloud.com/MachineLabel/machine-08-g3d9-live-machine/
a new waveguide to try: 18Sound XT1464
There aren’t many constant directivity waveguides for 1.4″ compression drivers, but one I had not been aware of until Paul Spencer and SvenR on SNA forums brought it to my attention was the 18sound Xt1464.
After reading up on it I found it online for sale (inc shipping) not too expensive at www.thomann.de. It did take ages to show up though, with very detailed notifications of the first and last 2 days of shipping, and nothing for the 3 weeks inbetween.
Cabinet ideas for the Lorantz C390X-B1-8 woofer
I’ve been running through ideas for some cabinets for the Lorantz woofers.
The current fairly rough PA cabinets that came with them OK, but I’m not getting the full bass the speakers are capable of.
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revisiting the DSE A2667 tweak with better measurements
I just revisited my tweaks to the DSE A2667 speaker (an OK quality cheap speaker commonly available second hand in Australia for about $20). This is because I had the loan of a WooferTester 3 unit from Col, so I could measure the drivers properly, and also had been given an extra pair to experiment with (thanks Gavin!).
TLDR summaryI made one additional adjustment to the crossover that made the response even flatter, by adding a 4.4uF capacitor to the LF portion to make it a 2nd order filter, while inverting the polarity of the tweeter.. but at the cost of an increase in measured distortion at about 3.5khz.
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HF144 with FaitalPro LTH142 and Pyle PH916 – outdoors directivity measurements
OK, we know that simple on axis, straight into the speaker frequency measurements aren’t the whole story – getting a range of measurements at different angles gives a better idea for speakers getting general use, not the whole glued to the magic sweetspot that a lot of hifi has.
So it was time to do some directivity measurements. I don’t have the a licensed copy of ARTA so I can’t do the heatmaps ala Gainphile’s site
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LSK Loud Speaker Kit now distributor for Dayton Audio
It was very interesting when I read that Paul Spencer of the very informative site Red Spade Audio Blog was revitalising Aussie kit speaker company LSK Loud Speaker Kit
Even more interesting, for those of us put off by US import prices for the bang for buck Dayton Audio products is that LSK is now a distributor for Dayton products in Australia. Great Stuff.
trying Pyle PH916 constant directivity waveguide: first impressions
I wanted to try some different waveguide options besides the FaitalPro LTH142 before I start making enclosures – and noticed the Pyle PH916 was a quite decent looking, inexpensive, candidate – but very little information about people using it at all on the web, unlike lots of other waveguides. But it is sold as a constant directivity waveguide, and in fact the waveguide I use in my Econowave speakers is a smaller model from Pyle so I gave it a try.
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woofer selected : Lorantz 15″ C390X B1
Well I had made a shortlist of all sorts of great drivers to work through the cabinet simulations with, including the B&C 15TBX100 (Italy), BEYMA 15B100/R (Spain), RCF LF15N401 (Italy), Selenium 15WS800 (Brazil), and even some from Lorantz (Dandenong, Australia), though the Lorantz ones were out of my budget, despite being locally made.
But I got very lucky with ebay and scored a pair of Lorantz 15″ C390X B1 for a great price. I’m told these are asbolutely amazing quality speakers.
Conveniently the auction even included some PA cabinets – though not great for loungeroom use long term at least I can get some instant gratification and get started with measurements and integrating the speakers before I start the big task of building some nice permament enclosures. When placed upside down they even position the speaker quite close to the waveguide, which is how I want the new cabinet to have it.
Not measurements yet. I’ve just quickly hooked up the bass drivers with some temporary banana sockets connected via the bass reflex port.