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sevenup 
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 Topic: First little setupPosted: 06 August 2014 at 9:12pm |
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My racks almost finished. Nothing professional, just for hobby
 I tried to make a small and easy to setup system that would fit in my car. It consists of 2 racks. Rack 1: Mixer (Old school D&R Discom 1) 2 x 15 band equalizer compressor coming soon... Homemade amplifier 2x60W for small monitors near the mixer Rack 2: Active stereo 2-way crossover Amplifier for subs Amplifier for sats Speakers: Subs are MTH-30 loaded with thomann 12-280/8-W (In picture is a test woofer, not the thomann) Sats are own design loaded with thomann 12-280/8-A and Eminence APT150    |
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mini-mad
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Posted: 06 August 2014 at 10:26pm |
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go on then... what amps you running, lets have a look.
your sat's, lets have a look at those too. ..i like the sound of it. its a nice simple little set-up. how you finding the thomann drivers then? didnt think they would hold up well in the MTH30. got any nice pic's of the rig all set up? |
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If it sounds like a gorilla is trying to escape, turn it down.
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bitSmasher
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Posted: 06 August 2014 at 11:22pm |
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Interested in how the MTH30 performs with that driver... and would like to see a pic of it all too
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Posted: 07 August 2014 at 6:12am |
Sounds great to me. Better then a lot of small branded subs i heard before. Here is a movie of someone using the same driver in the MTH-30 Somebody made a simulation for me with the thomman 12-280/8-W driver  |
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Posted: 07 August 2014 at 11:50am |
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Sorry for the thread hijack!
I've just built a double Cubo12 loaded with two of the Thomann drivers. Haven't had a chance to see what it like giving it the full beans yet but at low volumes it's average to OK.
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Posted: 07 August 2014 at 1:02pm |
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...looking at that freq.resp. graph doesnt looking like these is much below 55hz..
 build another 3 and see if it will get down to 45hz... |
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Posted: 07 August 2014 at 2:56pm |
Well, the guy that made the simulation got his input for the MTH-30 from the internet and this could be incorrect. I'm not missing anything in the lower regions. Plan is to build 2 more in the future, so I can make a stack of 4. Currently I have a 2x300W/8Ohm amp for the subs, this will move to the sats, and the subs will be powered by an amp with around 2x1000W/4Ohm.
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Posted: 07 August 2014 at 3:04pm |
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that will give you some nice head room and if stacked well should get you some very nice low-lows.
cant wait to see pictures of the full setup... how are you currently stacking your MTH30s? |
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Posted: 07 August 2014 at 3:56pm |
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Here is an older picture of the sat, but with a piezo tweeter that I mounted while waiting for the APT150. Not sure if I keep the color, I had a tin of paint laying around :)
 A very small picture of the speakers in use for the first time  Edited by sevenup - 07 August 2014 at 3:59pm |
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Posted: 08 August 2014 at 12:13am |
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MTH30 is a 50Hz box as specified by the designer... that's the compromise getting such output from a 12" in a simple design
Your Hornresp inputs look fine, they're the same numbers I've found to use for simming this box... and that driver looks like it sims well, what is the xmax? Should take a few hundred watts without trouble |
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Posted: 08 August 2014 at 12:17am |
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thats a nice diddy stack there fella... keep the colour "turbo blue" adds at least 10db to the output of any speaker!
but, as a bit of constructive criticism, get your sats up at head hight. buy tri-pods or something but getting them up high means you dont need to rag them trying to get them loud as the 1st few people in the crowd in front of them will dampen the output of them. so next on your wish list: tri-pod stands! Edited by mini-mad - 08 August 2014 at 12:21am |
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Posted: 08 August 2014 at 5:32pm |
I was told Xmax is between 6-7mm. My amplifier is 300W RMS, and I can give it full trottle.
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