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Hey all,
I'm pretty sure most of you have seen the "Dorm/Party Speakers" thread where I finally decided on building a pair of speakers using Eminence Beta 10CX's and Eminence ASD1001's. It should be a great project and I want to thank everyone that helped me come to my conclusions. Mark said he will be working on a project using those drivers sometime, so I'm going to wait until I can get a crossover plan, box layout, etc. to start building (I'm guessing late summer). But until then, I'd like to take care of the two things that I can get out of the way in early summer...my receiver and subwoofer/plate amp.
If you weren't following my first thread, this system is for a small "listening" room...our music room for parties. It's about 20'x20' (if that) so it's not huge at all. We will be using a playlist from an MP3 player exclusively, so CD player isn't necessary. I've been going with the Sony STR-DE197 stereo receiver (100Wx2 RMS) from the beginning because iit's cheap (will be in a party environment). Now with the sensitivity of my speakers I know it'll drive them fine, my only question is how to get a signal to my subwoofer plate amp (I've never hooked up anything like that, so I don't know what kind of output I'm looking for...RCA, etc.). If this won't work for me, are there any other cheap receivers (I've been looking at used H&K ones on eBay) that will work for me?
And for the subwoofer, I really like Mark's suggestion for the Dayton DCS380-4 classic 15" and 250W RMS PE plate amp combo from PE. At under $200 for both, it's what I'm looking for. Now I'm using the WinISD Pro beta to look at box parameters, but being a noob, it's difficult to understand what the graphs are showing me. Can anyone suggest some box volume parameters and port tunings (and round port dimensions)? Being an idiot, I just can't get the response as flat as some of the graphs I see on here. Oh, and the reason I want a ported design (I usually like sealed) is because it's going to be used mostly for loud music (rap/rock/pop whatever) and the "boominess" factor is what the people like...I suppose.
Thanks again guys...along with JeepForum.com, HTGuide has been the most useful website I've ever experienced, and it's all because of the people that frequent the forums...so just thank you!
~J
I'm pretty sure most of you have seen the "Dorm/Party Speakers" thread where I finally decided on building a pair of speakers using Eminence Beta 10CX's and Eminence ASD1001's. It should be a great project and I want to thank everyone that helped me come to my conclusions. Mark said he will be working on a project using those drivers sometime, so I'm going to wait until I can get a crossover plan, box layout, etc. to start building (I'm guessing late summer). But until then, I'd like to take care of the two things that I can get out of the way in early summer...my receiver and subwoofer/plate amp.
If you weren't following my first thread, this system is for a small "listening" room...our music room for parties. It's about 20'x20' (if that) so it's not huge at all. We will be using a playlist from an MP3 player exclusively, so CD player isn't necessary. I've been going with the Sony STR-DE197 stereo receiver (100Wx2 RMS) from the beginning because iit's cheap (will be in a party environment). Now with the sensitivity of my speakers I know it'll drive them fine, my only question is how to get a signal to my subwoofer plate amp (I've never hooked up anything like that, so I don't know what kind of output I'm looking for...RCA, etc.). If this won't work for me, are there any other cheap receivers (I've been looking at used H&K ones on eBay) that will work for me?
And for the subwoofer, I really like Mark's suggestion for the Dayton DCS380-4 classic 15" and 250W RMS PE plate amp combo from PE. At under $200 for both, it's what I'm looking for. Now I'm using the WinISD Pro beta to look at box parameters, but being a noob, it's difficult to understand what the graphs are showing me. Can anyone suggest some box volume parameters and port tunings (and round port dimensions)? Being an idiot, I just can't get the response as flat as some of the graphs I see on here. Oh, and the reason I want a ported design (I usually like sealed) is because it's going to be used mostly for loud music (rap/rock/pop whatever) and the "boominess" factor is what the people like...I suppose.
Thanks again guys...along with JeepForum.com, HTGuide has been the most useful website I've ever experienced, and it's all because of the people that frequent the forums...so just thank you!
~J
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