Hi, all,
Hoping someone might be able to provide me with some advice.
I recently built a pair of open baffle speakers with the assistance of Martin King (MJK) and his mathcad worksheets. I used Eminence Alpha 15A woofers and Alpair 7 full-range drivers on 18" x 24" baffles. I also build some simple 2nd order crossovers (1 inductor and 1 capacitor per driver).
Basically, this is the first time I've heard an open baffle and I'm blown away (even though drivers etc are not even run-in yet). I am using my Elekit TU-8200DX valve amp (8 watts per channel). However, I am being advised by a lot of people that I can achieve much tighter/deeper bass with a more powerful solid state amp. The issue I have is that I love the tube sound and don't particularly want to stop using my current amp (which I built myself just a year or two ago).
I had a couple of questions:
1) I have been reading on this forum about horizontal bi-amping, but it is not something I know much about. It would seem on the face of it like this could be the perfect solution for me - use my valve amp for the full range drivers and buy an additional more powerful solid state amp for the woofers to achieve stronger/tighter bass. What would I need to achieve this? Do i need some sort of active crossover (e.g. DBX)? Do I need a pre-amp?
2) any people who can offer opinions on powering open baffles (with similar high efficiency 15" drivers) using similar power valve amps? Am I really losing out on the bass side?
Thanks,
Lee
Hoping someone might be able to provide me with some advice.
I recently built a pair of open baffle speakers with the assistance of Martin King (MJK) and his mathcad worksheets. I used Eminence Alpha 15A woofers and Alpair 7 full-range drivers on 18" x 24" baffles. I also build some simple 2nd order crossovers (1 inductor and 1 capacitor per driver).
Basically, this is the first time I've heard an open baffle and I'm blown away (even though drivers etc are not even run-in yet). I am using my Elekit TU-8200DX valve amp (8 watts per channel). However, I am being advised by a lot of people that I can achieve much tighter/deeper bass with a more powerful solid state amp. The issue I have is that I love the tube sound and don't particularly want to stop using my current amp (which I built myself just a year or two ago).
I had a couple of questions:
1) I have been reading on this forum about horizontal bi-amping, but it is not something I know much about. It would seem on the face of it like this could be the perfect solution for me - use my valve amp for the full range drivers and buy an additional more powerful solid state amp for the woofers to achieve stronger/tighter bass. What would I need to achieve this? Do i need some sort of active crossover (e.g. DBX)? Do I need a pre-amp?
2) any people who can offer opinions on powering open baffles (with similar high efficiency 15" drivers) using similar power valve amps? Am I really losing out on the bass side?
Thanks,
Lee