Desperately need XT8's
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Topic: Desperately need XT8's
Posted By: Bitkrusha
Subject: Desperately need XT8's
Date Posted: 04 February 2011 at 6:56pm
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I know it's a long shot but does anyone have a couple of XT8's I can buy or rent. I've nearly finished my X-tro's and I really wanted to fire them up for my best mates 40th Birthday party next weekend. He's always wanted to hear them and it'd be great to surprise him. Trouble is the order from Mykey probably won't be here in time. I'm more than happy to pay for the use of them for the weekend if you'd be prepared to lend them. I've got the B&C 8PE21's to go with them, just need the horns. If anyone can help I'd very much appreciate it. ------------- 11 is one louder!! |
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Posted By: Contour
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 9:56am
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Hope you can find some of these excellent XT8 horns on time, Mykey does a great job on these!
For the time being you could build the original wooden 8" horn, that is also nice because then you can do an A/B comparison with the XT8, it will only cost you some wood en some time.
By the way, which 15" drivers and which HF unit are you going to use? And which subs do you plan on using?
Don't forget to put some damping material such as foam on the walls of the 15" rearchamber. The rearwave shall be damped to prevent bouncing back from the rearwall trough the cones into the horn.
Best regards,
Walt
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Posted By: Bitkrusha
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 1:38pm
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Hi Walt, You're right! When I think about it the wooden horn isn't that complicated to build separately. Doing the comparison would be pretty cool. Thanks again for your generosity in putting these up for everyone to build. Speaker technology is way over my head. Re drivers, I'm using the ones you specifiy: 18Sound 15ND930 B&C 8PE21 B&C DE-500 + Beyma TD-245 I don't see the point in doing all this and then not loading them properly. I can't wait to fire them up. I've also built 2 more Punishers to go with the 2 I've already got. ------------- 11 is one louder!! |
Posted By: Bitkrusha
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 2:47pm
Don't worry! I've got a plenty of speaker wadding to put in the rear chamber. ------------- 11 is one louder!! |
Contour wrote:Posted By: Contour
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 5:53pm
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Hello,
Good to see that you are using the recommended drivers, the DE500 + TD245 combo is really nice sounding! The B&C 8" will do perfect on the XT8 horn and the 2x 15ND930 offer quite some kick.
For dance music with lots of bass you can use 3x Punisher a side together with 1x X-tro.
From my experience the Punisher design really comes alive with 3 or more a side, two is already nice but with 3 you will see they really start to work as one big basshorn.
Best regards,
Walt
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Posted By: Bitkrusha
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 6:13pm
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He he he! Don't worry Walt, this is just the start. Now I've got my workshop together, I intend to continue building them. It's just the cost of the drivers that causes a problem. Nearly £800.00 per X-tro cabinet is tough. But you get what you pay for, I guess. Do you have any experience of running the X-tro's and Punishers with live music? ------------- 11 is one louder!! |
Posted By: James Cotton
Date Posted: 08 February 2011 at 12:01pm
My live rig is the same as yours will be, 2 Punishers and 1 X-Tro a side, all recommended drivers, XT8 horns, driven with 1 channel of a C Audio Pulse 2x1100 per driver (yes, even the compression driver gets an 1100 although it only puts out 700W at 8 ohms  ) so each stack runs off 3 amps.
The band I engineer for are an 80's hair metal outfit so it's a bit different to the EDM type stuff most of these rigs are used for but I'm very pleased with the results.
I often recieve positive comments on the quality of the sound.
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Posted By: Bitkrusha
Date Posted: 08 February 2011 at 8:26pm
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It's always better to have a bit of headroom eh?! That's good to know about the band. It'd be useful to use it for both applications. Many thanks. ------------- 11 is one louder!! |
Posted By: James Cotton
Date Posted: 08 February 2011 at 9:02pm
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Yeah the headroom's great.
I use the same amp model for everything (2 racks of 5 each) so the other bonus is if I have a failure I can just swap a spare in with no impact.
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