in the last 10 years I've lost count of the people that have said 'why don't you try OB'.........you've just paraphrased my responseIslandPink wrote:That is a shame.
However that alcove bit behing the speaker in the pic is quite confined and doesn't look great for OB .
but I had to try....
crossover is exactly as shown on the mls....other people are using this point with success, but not in my room.
My problem is that I'm asking a big driver to deliver in the area that I'm used to working with 8" fostex and Seas and markaudio..i.e 80-900, guitars and vocals and horns etc...it's a big ask for a 12"..and this one doesn't cut the mustard without overpowering the bass.
and the beyma is not half as sparkly as I was expecting...time to move on.
with what I've learned of OB recently I suspect the beyma might work in my room with a 3 way and with a bottom end driver of much less efficiency than I've got here. Only way I can see of attenuating the big driver is in a box as per my original design/plan. The above scenario(3 way) could quite easily be achieved with a monacor or dayton AMT instead of the beyma, and save a packet......still, fortunately OB was not my goal.
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as a complete aside, it's given me an opportunity to run the new audiotester measurement system alongside clio. So far the audiotester has proved a nightmare to get running, mainly because of irregularities with the USB drivers for the steinberg audio interface. All the audiotester calibration examples relate to cheap stereo jack soundcards, which doesn't give a nod to measurement mics. Consequently calibration has been truly hit and miss so far. I can see why clio costs now, cuts out all this guess work...I will be hanging on to the XP machine a while longer now. Audiotester also adds to the price of experience.
for those that were interested in the audiotester system....the calibration procedure involves connecting the line in to the line out and measuring voltages etc, all very good, but as soon as you plug in the condensor mic and switch on the phantom power you are using a different gain/preamp setup...can't be right, can it?...I think I need to converse with the audiotester people. Watch this space.