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by windcrest77
Sun Jul 14, 2013 10:47 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: Need a builder and advice (someone who has availability now)
Replies: 6
Views: 1322

Re: Need a builder and advice (someone who has availability

windcrest77 wrote:
Bruce Weldy wrote:You didn't say where you are, but you can try one of these guys...

http://billfitzmaurice.net/Builders.html
I'm in IL, in southwest Chicago suburbs.
I'm reading that the AT needs to be in a small space of a car to perform to spec. So thinking I need to use the T24 or 18.
by windcrest77
Sun Jul 14, 2013 10:21 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: Need a builder and advice (someone who has availability now)
Replies: 6
Views: 1322

Re: Need a builder and advice (someone who has availability

Bruce Weldy wrote:You didn't say where you are, but you can try one of these guys...

http://billfitzmaurice.net/Builders.html
I'm in IL, in southwest Chicago suburbs.
by windcrest77
Sun Jul 14, 2013 10:20 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: Need a builder and advice (someone who has availability now)
Replies: 6
Views: 1322

Re: Need a builder and advice (someone who has availability

You didn't say where you are, but you can try one of these guys... http://billfitzmaurice.net/Builders.html Thanks, I saw that, was hoping to also run my choices past a few folks to make sure I'm on the right track. And maybe hear from others who did small PA's. Mostly if I should be using the Tuba...
by windcrest77
Sun Jul 14, 2013 10:03 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: Need a builder and advice (someone who has availability now)
Replies: 6
Views: 1322

Need a builder and advice (someone who has availability now)

Hi, I need a small PA with sub system built, soon, like now, actually more like yesterday. The priority is more on the quality of the sound than volume. It will be used in small ballroom dance studios as my traveling system, and in my own basement dance studio (I teach dance). It should be as light ...
by windcrest77
Sun Apr 08, 2012 12:03 pm
Forum: Amps
Topic: Using class D automotive amps for making active PA speakers?
Replies: 20
Views: 6473

Using class D automotive amps for making active PA speakers?

Is it just me or has anyone else thought of mounting automotive amplifiers as power amps in active speakers? For the following reasons... they are inexpensive, they offer a lot of power in class D (in the thousands of watts), they are compact and made for "bolting in" applications, they ar...
by windcrest77
Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:40 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Apartment dweller thinking of Sonotube usage (new member)
Replies: 9
Views: 1589

Re: Apartment dweller thinking of Sonotube usage (new member

Nice idea. Not going to work. Horn pressures are very high. Folded horns is folded and tubes don't fold. Duct tape isn't PL. Forget it. Thanks, I was thinking the folded horn would be created with concentric cylinders nested. For example the outer cylinder would have a diameter of say 24 inches, th...
by windcrest77
Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:12 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Apartment dweller thinking of Sonotube usage (new member)
Replies: 9
Views: 1589

Re: Apartment dweller thinking of Sonotube usage (new member

Additionally I would see a design where 2 slightly offsized Sonotubes telescope into each other (like a whip antenna does) to tune the box or simply provide a way to make the whole unit smaller for transport purposes. When you get to the gig you slide the tube up and double the internal volume of th...
by windcrest77
Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:09 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Apartment dweller thinking of Sonotube usage (new member)
Replies: 9
Views: 1589

Apartment dweller thinking of Sonotube usage (new member)

Hello, I just joined but have been reading speaker builder magazine since inception and making speakers since 1973 when I could not afford speakers in high school, just for hobby (on and off). Well now I live in an apartment and really have no access to a table saw, and a set up to make cabinets, et...