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I've fixed the style and moved everyone off the old one, so the poll should work now.

Chris_Allen wrote:I've fixed the style and moved everyone off the old one, so the poll should work now.

Thanks Chris. What's your story?

Hmm, there's more home theater guys than I would have guessed. What are you guys looking at, THTs?SLAs?

Robby

I was looking for a horn sub to match my mains for home theater. Read about the THT while scouring the web for DTS-20 reviews.

I'm a guitarist who fell into PA as no one else in the band understood/could be arsed/didn't have jobs that paid enough money. Band fell apart (as they do) and started building an equipment empire which I now understand to be mainly crap. Occasionally mix for other people but get extremely frustrated having playing in bands singing, bassing, guitaring and drumming (not at the same time of course!) so understand fairly well how it all works on stage.

Found this site as I didn't know what a horn was.

Pro Sound sound quality on the cheap.
I was referred by a bass player that had a frankenstack of speakers 7 foot tall. He was exclaiming his eagerness to build a tallboy.
He must have spent an hour talking up bills designs.
That was 3 years ago and I have a full BFD system and he has no tallboy.

Haysus wrote:Pro Sound sound quality on the cheap.
I was referred by a bass player that had a frankenstack of speakers 7 foot tall. He was exclaiming his eagerness to build a tallboy.
He must have spent an hour talking up bills designs.
That was 3 years ago and I have a full BFD system and he has no tallboy.

HA!

Inspiration - > Motivation -> Perspiration

Robby

I needed subs for my band on the cheap. I have a weak back so the weight of commercial offerings in addition to the price forced me to look at DIY. I read until my eyes bled and decided on 2 14" t-39's for the band subs and an omni12 for my bass. After hearing the t-39's I was hooked. Look at my signature to see how the addiction has grown. In the future 2 jacks and 2 ot12 are planned but I won't have time for them until spring.

Got interested from a post many years ago from someone on DJForums. Can't remember who it was, but I bookmarked the site. Couple years ago I threw out my back lifting a 120# B-52 sub, then again a couple months later lifting a 170# rack.

Started doing some research on lighter weight cabs and found this site again. Built some lightweight slims... then of course went for the much heavier 24" T39s

I'm a dj, and found out about this site from a huge thread over on DJForums. I have all of my own sound, mainly el cheapo garbage I bought when I first started, but I've got it eq'd perfectly, so it sounds good. I blew my commercial sub driver from another dj spiking my system WAAAAAAY past clipping. At the time I had already bought the plans for the Titan 48, and bought the kit from Leland... So it was off to my dads woodworking shop. A week later, there was a titan 48. I was amazed at the clear heart thumping bass. I have been using the sub for 10 months, up until a month ago using the plate amp from the sub that the titan 48 replaced. sounded fine, but I was always afraid of popping the driver with no limiting, or highpass ability. After popping the plate amp, I bought a xti2000, which has really uncorked the t48. I plan on replacing the Delta15lfa with the 3015lf, and building another t48, then a couple ot15's. Gotta get my own shop first.

Hehe - wonder what Bill's reason for "what brought you here" is?

I came here (well .. not HERE ... the old forum) while searching to learn about horn-loaded cabs, in general. I thought it was the best resource I could find on the subject on the internet, so I hung around. Turns out I was right.

I bookmarked this site awhile back, and didn't dig in to it at that time. Sound and speaker design has been a passion from my earliest days, as it was for my pop and his pops pop before him. All fabricator, engineering oriented. We've experimented with servo motors and squirrel cage concepts for bass, lots of fun. I never engaged in any forum although I lurked and learned a little. My profession complemented the passion as I got involved in club reinforcement and management early on. After building a number of fairly successful projects from the ground up with exceptional acoustics always a priority, I retired from that life and the door opened for the consulting work I'm in today.
...I finally got back to that bookmark as I got involved in another permanent install and wanted to step my game up from the previous bandpass, horn and direct systems we usually would build....It took only a cursory study of Bill's designs, and the forum content for me to realize I had found an invaluable resource. A more advanced philosophy and understanding in system design. I've been a student since.

Respect and best wishes for Bill and the members here..
Yours In Sound,
Drey

I found this site after buying the Eminence Designer CD/program & not being pleased with the plots that more "conventional" setups (410, 810, 115) produced even when using quality speakers.

I wanted to build my own so I could sell off my Ampeg stack before it got beatup from hauling. I came to realize (too late) that when you play bars, the only people that care about fancy equipment are other bass players!

I stumbled on the BF scene a few yrs back looking for an affordable sub woofer build for our band.
I liked it so much and the abundant information on the forum that I had to join the team.

I have 4 Dr's 2 T-39's and 2 jack 10's that are in the batters box, but personal matters with the fam are taking center stage.

I shouldn't be, but I am on this forum so much that if it was crack I would be a crack whore.