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maybe this mod would help the predator measure better:

don't jinx me man... I'm headed down half way to Houston to pick up my new toy on Thursday: So, Dusty Chalk I may need your research skills, but it looks like I need those DAD discs you were talking about to use with this guy. What about the smaller European labels, any of them make these DVD-V discs? Know you know the exact player, perhaps you can advise better...

I'm itching to post here, but the seller of my (potential) new toy is a fracking jet-setter.... Who posts an item on Audiogon and that day leaves on a business trip?

I thought Tomahawk's had -1 gain ....

it's a silver wrapped teflon tube configuration

I don't think you're going to do a whole lot better in your target price range personally, and I love rolling in new caps

so, from what I can gather they sound like $40 speakers from Best Buy. j/k, I'll try and help as much as I can... I see that there are a few incarnations of these crossovers out there as well.

hm, tough to follow from the pics. It does look at the negative for the tweeter is not wired properly though, as it's going to the cap, where it should be just connected to the coil. I'm assuming you unwound the stock coil per the instructions? I'd just wire up one driver and use a sweep tone to listen to it. Then disconnect the driver and isolate the second and try the sweep tone. If a specific frequnency range sound bad, note that. It's possible you've already fried the driver too I suppose. Do you have any idea who made the coaxial driver and if there's a datasheet somewhere? I suppose you have no way of comparing to the original driver since you've unwound one of the coils ... what do you mean by sounds "bad", by the way... If you've had someone verify that the crossover is okay, then really you only have a few options. Incorrect wiring or a bad driver ... or bad ears I suppose

can I get a picture and schematic of the crossover?

Remember, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"

copy-cat

thanks. this has been immensely helpful. Hold that thought

lol. I mean switch the tweeter but not the woofer. I think they need to be wired out of phase. This sort of topology is normal, given the type of crossover.

can I make a friendly wager? I bet, though am not sure, that the tweeter should be reverse polarity.

not really a specific disc, just wanting to get a list of all classical discs that have PCM 24/96 tracks on them that don't require a DVD-A player.

I can probably help. Do you have a way to take measurements? A measurement microphone and a sound card at minimum.

So, this is a really stupid question, but I was wondering if DVD-A discs have PCM 24/96 tracks on them? If I have a transport that can play the PCM information off of DVD-V discs, is there any reason it won't work with DVD-A discs? Thanks!

The project is coming along slowly. I just sent off the plans for the case. I'm going to try out the new case option at Front Panel Express. I'm going to try and cram things in a 42mm high enclosure, with the heat sinks and tubes top mounted. If that doesn't work, then I'll go for the larger 56mm option, which will definitely work with no problems. Since I hadn't decided about this, I didn't order the front and rear panels this time around. I'm getting a sample of the blue colored material from FPE as well, perhaps I'll go with that for the front panel. I'll post pics once the case gets here

I guess I was wondering if isolating the inputs from the case (which is used as a ground) and/or removing that funky XLR jack wiring would help at all ...

bump

can I put one of those 31337 operating systems from Berkeley on it? If so, I'll take one!

Interesting thread that has popped up from some recent controversy in Stereophile surround the Halco amps. A few heavy-weights are in on this discussion, so it should be interesting! http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1404200

Is that a pancake on the bunny's head?

I'll make a cable this week ... I have the stock cable and some XLRs around that I can use

I think you'll enjoy listening to Al's Twisted Pear stuff as well as Al's new source. Sadly, my DI DAC (the topic of this thread) will not be done by then, and even if it did I'd need a transport (that one you have probably would work nicely, after I did a few mods here and there ...) Actually, perhaps nate will see this. Do you know the transport (and more importantly) the decoder chip (SAAxxxx) used in that transport you made? Perhaps you have some pics of the insides somewhere?