Hinge rattle,no hinge rattle but the machinery is rattling, lol.Looking Sweet, Westend! No rattles from the hinge? Sure would love to hear those monsters!
This is about the same thing, Dennis, but instead of a turnbuckle I have a wooden adjuster under the horn. Left or right is handled by moving the sled.I don't see hinges in the pix. I had my Heils on hinges with a turn buckle and I could adjust it to point right at me. My hinges did not rattle as they were under load.
Looking good Lance. I really think the Heil is the best tweeter out there. I tried running them down to 2500hz but it was just too thin for my taste. Remind me: what are your crossover points?
Still playing around with things DJ but the horn is doing nicely from a couple clicks under 1200 hz, I'm guessing about 1050-1100 hz. I have been fooling with the Heil, going up and down, presently at 9300 hz. I've got to get that other F5 done for the woofers and I'm thinking a chip amp would probably serve the Heils well. What do you think?
I put felt between the horn and the wood mounting frame. It should offer some damping of the horn.
I've lowered the the Heils down to 7000hz, DJ. Still experimenting.I've run my Heils with the Sonic Impact D amp, 300B tube amp and Eico EL34 tube amp and all of them sounded very nice but liked the Eico the best. I think it had to do with having the most power & the tube sound. But I could listen to them all day with the Sonic Impact: amazingly enough. I crossed mine at 7KHZ for the best sound in my system.
Why not build a third F5?
Or, a Mini Aleph? Brian's boards are only 8 bucks each for the amp or PS boards.
third F-5 isnt a bad idea either....
Russellc
You guys are such enablers.One BIG one, 6 channels - tall with vertical fins.
I've never had or heard the infamous ringing but I've always had the horn fastened to a mounting frame.On the Altec Sectoral's 511 or 811's the bell part is the most important area to damp on them.Top & Bottom on the outer front edge of the horn.That is where it will ring the most,therefore needs to be damped. :thmbsp:
Get on up here!Jay this build reminded me a lot of the big ass cabinets jaymanaa built in his kitchen.
Looking damn sweet! I can't wait to here them!
If you wait a week or two, I'll have two F5's on them.:yes:
I've never had or heard the infamous ringing but I've always had the horn fastened to a mounting frame.