Started my new custom SDA's today

BlueMDPicker

Woaa! Lots of dedication there Ben.

I'm going to be in Delray Beach the end of July. I'll probably be able to hear them from there.

ben62670

BlueMDPicker wrote: »

Woaa! Lots of dedication there Ben.

I'm going to be in Delray Beach the end of July. I'll probably be able to hear them from there.

Come on over! I am 25 minutes from there! Just map quested it:)

ben62670

jakelm wrote: »

Where are the finished pics??

Slave driver! I was going to take it easy tonight. Now you got me painting, and preparing the wiring.:mad:

ben62670

jakelm wrote: »

Where are the finished pics??

Its 3am here. I need to stop. For your viewing enjoyment here is another pick. The paint is not dry around the speaker holes. That is the gloss look you see. A little clean up, and final temp coat is going on tomorrow.:p May I can go to sleep now?
Thanks ben

jakelm

Damnit..Thats what I'm talking about bro!!! Looking great.

My sister lives in Lauderdale , off of 55th str, a couple of blocks from a huge white church, that has a cross 300' high. I dont know if you know where that is. But might be heading there this July.

ben62670

jakelm wrote: »

Damnit..Thats what I'm talking about bro!!! Looking great.

My sister lives in Lauderdale , off of 55th str, a couple of blocks from a huge white church, that has a cross 300' high. I dont know if you know where that is. But might be heading there this July.

Thats about 5 miles from me. I won't be back here till July 17th, and I am leaving on the 6th. It would be cool to hook up. Is there a golf coarse near that church?

Ben

jakelm

ben62670 wrote: »

Thats about 5 miles from me. I won't be back here till July 17th, and I am leaving on the 6th. It would be cool to hook up. Is there a golf coarse near that church?

Ben

You know I think there is a rather nice coarse near that church.

schwarcw

Great job Ben! I can't wait to see the crossover!

engtaz

Ben you better hurry up and finish your projects other wise you vacation is canceled.:D LOL

ben62670

schwarcw wrote: »

Great job Ben! I can't wait to see the crossover!

That will be a work in progress. Most of the XO is going to be passive inline for now, and I will be experimenting with active. There will also be a passive XO in the speaker to roll off higher frequencies, and increase the slope to 24db to help save the tweeters from frying at high power levels. Thanks for the encouragement.

Ben

Oh yeah I should be firing up these thing Monday night:)

ben62670

I used some Decor paint I found at the hardware store. It simulates granite. It look pretty good I wouldn't say that it looks like granite though. Nice speckle job that will be easy to touch up.

jakelm

Oh I likey thata.

ben62670

Its still kinda wet. I knew you wanted me to get them done so...

ben62670

Damn my fingers hurt from driving all the screws with a screw gun! Well Half done installing drivers. Had to play some music in stereo. I hit 120db nice clear, and tight. I'm putting 450 to the tweeters, and 800 to the woofers. Later on tonight I hope to add another 800 to the dim array. We need a custom icon with fingers in the ears here on Polk! Thats a pretty crappy pic. I'll post a better one later:)

Edit The bass is even better than before!

ben62670

Damn This thing sounds good. I can not believe the accuracy, tightness, and SPL levels this thing can reach. I hit 123db. I can't even put it into words. I am my toughest critic if you have read any of my post, but I love this. You just wouldn't believe this. Anyway here is a pic. Almost done. I am going to have to post a video sometime of the 4 10's jumping. Unfreaken real. No spacey out phase crap. I thought I was going to have some issues. Its all good:)

Bill Ayotte

HOLY SH$T!!! Those look nothing short of awesome....

ben62670

Thanks Bill. I have to still do some fine tuning. That BS box I built with all those fancy level controls, and switch's was a total waste of time. My big amps require 2 volts for full output and my amp that is driving the tweeters only requires 1.14 for full out. I have no Idea how this ended up working. I did some cable swapping. I have the balanced output converted to unbalanced going to my main woofer, and I have one of those fancy AQ y's splitting to my SDA array, and tweeter amp. You would think by reading the specs that the tweeters would be way over driven. I have no idea how the levels are matched perfectly, and I really don't care. I am happier than a pig in filth! Ye Ha!

engtaz

Those are fantastic. Great job Ben. I do like the kids table as a accostic trap. Take care. great job.

dholmes

!!! you missed your calling you should have been a spk builder!! AA++

joeparaski

Ben, you gonna build me a set after you are done with yours?

Joe

hearingimpared

They look really beautiful.

ben62670

My head hurts. You know how older people have that flab below there arms. Well I had my elbow propped up, and I don't have flab under my arms, but when the speakers hit it feels like my triceps are being blow back, and forth. I hit 124db last night(this morning), and it is definitely way to much for sustained listening. When it hits it really hits.

ben62670

dholmes wrote: »

!!! you missed your calling you should have been a spk builder!! AA++

No. They should have never let me out of the nut house!:eek:

bikezappa

ben62670 you go for it.

Progress is deviation from the norm.

Face

Very nice!!

jakelm

Ok, we know how loud it is....lol, but how does it sound? Deminsion drivers doing their job? Soundstage?

madmax

Very nice! You should let them break in for awhile before getting too crazy. When are you going to build the big pair?
madmax

ben62670

madmax wrote: »

Very nice! You should let them break in for awhile before getting too crazy. When are you going to build the big pair?
madmax

Dude there is no way I am going to build a pair of speakers larger than this. They sound absolutely wonderful. The bass is so strong that it causes me to do a walk around to make sure nothing is on the floor, or fallen down. The length of the array is key to the sound stage. If I were to make any modification to this I would have put one 10 on the bottom, and one 10 on the top. I really don't think that at the low bass levels they put out that there would be any phase issues. The reason I put all 4 10's together like that was to make it seem like one giant woofer, and I have little kids who like to poke speakers. I do not know what would actually sound better. I just can't explain enough how tight the bass is. It hits hard. No booming. The only problem I have is trying to tighten ever thing up in my place. Even the light fixture lenses resonated. The drop ceiling support bars resonate. The bass from this thing digs deeper than my Sono Sub:eek: WIRES DO MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE! When I figure out the best synergy I will post with what has worked best.

Thanks Ben

madmax

Did you wire the woofers in series/parallel directly or did you taper the sound level at the top and bottom ends? Just wondering.
madmax

Early B.

ben --

Tell us more baout the sound quality. I'd like to hear how it sounds with different types of music. Is it detailed? How low does the bass go? What about soundstage and imaging? Is it bright or laid back? Etc.