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Tactile transducers- couch shakers and the Hoverboss

By admin | January 3, 2022 - 6:33 pm |February 20, 2022 Uncategorized
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Tactile transducers- couch shakers and the Hoverboss

Like many people in the last couple of years I have been expanding my home theater. Back in 2009 or so I experimented with some Aura bass shakers on my couch and I didn’t like them very much. I never figured out how to get them to integrate smoothly and … Continue reading →

Barn Speaker Redo

By admin | January 2, 2022 - 8:21 pm |January 3, 2022 Uncategorized
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Barn Speaker Redo

Back in 2003 I worked with a college friend to build a big set of speakers, and in 2015 I did some updates to make them somewhat less terrible- I wrote about that here: https://totallyshould.com/?p=870 One big problem with these speakers was that they were really not capable of producing … Continue reading →

Wall Speaker Project

By admin | December 6, 2021 - 1:22 pm |January 3, 2022 Uncategorized
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Wall Speaker Project

When I built our home theater I used the JBL LSR-308p MKii as the front left and right speakers. Overall they sound very good, but they don’t quite hold up when the action is at its peak. I’ve never had a very successful non-subwoofer speaker design so I set out … Continue reading →

Pipe Sub

By admin | May 2, 2021 - 9:03 am |November 28, 2021 Uncategorized
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Pipe Sub

Since my last post we’ve moved and had a baby, who is now a rambunctious toddler. I’m getting to do some projects again so it’s time to bring the blog back! This project might be a little more “totally should” than my other recent audio posts, so I thought I’d … Continue reading →

Acoustic treatment

By admin | May 13, 2018 - 4:49 pm |May 13, 2018 Uncategorized
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Acoustic treatment

A lot of time has passed since my room equalization post in August 2016, and the stereo is now in a different room. Looking back, I think that one of the biggest problems that I had in my attempt at equalization was that I was aiming for the wrong target … Continue reading →

Room equalization

By admin | August 29, 2016 - 11:23 pm |August 30, 2016 Uncategorized
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Room equalization

This is a topic that I’m still fairly shaky on, so anybody out there reading this as a possible reference should probably take this all with a grain of salt. After building the LX521 speakers I could tell that they weren’t delivering precisely the sound that I know that they’re … Continue reading →

LX521 Speaker build- the Hypex multi-channel amplifier

By admin | July 28, 2016 - 11:41 pm |July 28, 2016 Uncategorized
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LX521 Speaker build- the Hypex multi-channel amplifier

It’s about time I had an update! This is basically skipping to the end from the last post, building cables, but I’ve been pressed for time in getting them built so I didn’t keep blogging as I went. I have a few pictures of putting the cabinets together, but it’s … Continue reading →

LX521 build- speaker wires

By admin | March 12, 2016 - 11:50 pm |March 18, 2016 Speakers
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LX521 build- speaker wires

This is is the very first post in my LX521 build, not counting a couple of background posts saying what I’m building and why I’m building it. Tonight I got started on making my speaker wires. The LX521 is a four-way speaker with an active crossover, meaning that for a … Continue reading →

Speaker Projects – Part 2, aiming higher

By admin | March 10, 2016 - 9:35 pm |March 12, 2016 Totally doing it!
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Speaker Projects – Part 2, aiming  higher

What am I building? It’s the LX521. Here’s a picture of me feeling starstruck. Part 2a- The LX521, compared to what else? Ok, so they cost about $3k to build on a tight budget… what are they competing against? The LX521 speaker was created by Siegfried Linkwitz, and he’s the … Continue reading →

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Speaker Projects – Part 1

By admin | February 21, 2016 - 11:37 pm |February 22, 2016 Totally doing it!
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Speaker Projects – Part 1

I’ve been interested in speakers and sound for a very long time, and if I had to pick some point in time that started this it might have been in the summer of 2000 when I was working for Radio Shack. I only worked there for that summer before college … Continue reading →

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