The obvious choice would be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCh9OhDiCI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqzPFyeXGEE Also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY03xrcaIlM Send me the video before its finished and I'll send you a bunch of options that make sense with the way the footage is edited. I'm not one...

I've been looking into making a dummy load(s) unit that would be flexible for multiple channel and variable impedance, less for analytical purposes than for just functionality testing. I think one important thing it sounds like trickyricky's advice gets at is to drive both (or all) channels at once ...

LOL I knew this was gonna take a turn at some point. Kirghiz and ttocs are both right. If the electrical and physical properties of two different brands of wire are essentially the same, there is no "magic' that can make one outperform the other. Bottom line is you can either believe in physics...

I have admittedly limited knowledge of high current ac, but I think you will be OK with 10. You certainly won't have any audible loss vs 8 awg, I guess the concern would be heat due to the more resistance. Wire is wire, copper is copper, etc. It doesn't care if its carrying voltage that is a music s...

Thanks to ALL that replied......... I'm terrified to tell the wife I went to the local stereo shop to placed a order for a new amp...... :shock: I may have to start packing my bags and looking for a place to live... :lol: Just wait till you install it then have the conversation in the car. Should b...

Cliff notes: I'm cheap. I use the cheapest cable I can find that specs to what I need. Speaker cable has been monoprice for a while. Its a little stiffer than some more expensive wire, but I haven't had any corrosion issues like I've seen with some inexpensive stuff sold as speaker wire, and the ins...

I'd give a shot at hitting it with deoxit gold first, won't hurt. If it really needs replaced it should be 3 joints to desolder/solder I'm guessing. The one time I took my 2 channel Tantrum apart I remember swearing a lot though.

sorry forgot to past the link. its the same part just C is forward and J is reverse polarity.

http://search.datasheetcatalog.net/key/JPF10

I'm not the most knowledgeable about parts and repairs but try searching for: D316 - CPF10 D317 - JPF10 Here's the datasheet, maybe it will help you find a suitable replacement as these don't appear to be made anymore. Maybe try a surplus place like apexjr.com. I'd call him though I know they aren't...

My front porch was looking like a freight terminal for a minute there earlier today. Alpine CDE 7831 for $15 off CL. I'm not familiar with the Alpine stuff apart from the obvious old school flagships, always wanted one when they were the definitive players. Figured I'd take a shot hoping this was a ...

dude that's kind of insane in the best way possible.

on a related note, when people are talking about "3d printing" that I keep hearing about, is it basically something like this? or a whole different type of machine/process?

so the lesson here is to jump on shit like this. someone else scooped it before I could. oh well. thanks anyway for chiming in fellas

There is one for sale about 5 miles from me, anyone have any knowledge they can drop on me? I'm running 1 Memphis Power Reference 12" now that I got brand new for $30 and built a sealed box for, running right now off a Tantrum 500.2 a channel on each 4 ohm vc. It performs about how I expected. ...

This shit sucks. My dad's VW radio just completely died the other day. There's no 12v switched trigger, the trigger to allow turn on is like digitally controlled by the diagnostic computer. so not only can I not bench test the radio, he has to go pay VW $100 or whatever for them to plug in the scan ...

that all sounds great except for the selling you my ZX 450 Lol 8) figured it was worth a shot slipping that in there hahaha. Its worth getting it recapped, and you can go with a layout like I gave you so you're up and running at least then get it recapped at your leisure, then later see if it sound...

I just finished putting a stereo in my 4 door sedan (Maxima) doing the same thing, using stuff I had laying around and also jumping on deals. You have PLENTY to make a loud and good sounding stereo already if you pay attention to details with the install itself. For one, Those Diamonds are fairly se...

I would say it was a little better then the year before and that is all I ask. Brother, if we can say that every year, I think we are in good shape. 8) I can't complain. I got back to work, though not full time, I was busy more than I wasn't. I took care of some shit I needed to address and its mak...

Very cool Ajaye, thanks! I'm working through some of these albums, seeing what I can do to them. My biggest complaint at this point is that my truck is in the driveway, and my headphones don't sound like my truck. I expect some trial and error until I get them dialed in, but this is a very easy to ...

Have you messed around with the "Clip Fix" effect? When I imported Master Of Puppets, Battery was clipped all to hell fresh off the cd. I went "clip fix-Normalize-EQ-Normalize", and the track that audacity spit out actually had less distortion than the CD version. Kinda blew my ...

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I was fooling around with Audacity out of curiosity after responding last night. I think it may be even easier than I thought. Once you have a track opened, the first thing I do is change the view from linear to waveform db. That's in the dropdown to the left of the waveform window, it should say th...

So, I'm now in the process of importing a ton of CD's into Apple Lossless, and I have run across several old CD's that have never had any bottom end. I'm going to use Appetite For Destruction for the example, since this disc has frustrated me for 20+ years. Before you say, "If it isn't on the ...

So, for xmas the wife decided to get someone at work to build me a gaming PC! After we discovered streaming through Netflix/Hulu Plus/Aereo using the PS3's and the Roku we really didn't need a whole home PC anymore. So this was a pure gaming PC. My question is how did she do? I'm really green at th...

I used a free open source program called Audacity, and it seems to have done the job. I have no idea if it lost any sound quality in doing it yet. My computer speakers aren't going to tell me that. I'll have to wait to get in the truck tomorrow to find out I guess. Audacity will automatically open ...

nico have you seen any of the Pi speakers or know of them at all? Wayne seems to openly share all of his findings working with horn loaded drivers and speaker/crossover designs over the last few decades, pretty impressive what can be achieved with horn/waveguide stuff now. I remember when "horn...