Arkay
Lunatic Member
If you get the "bookshelf" version that bobrown14 posted above, you HAVE TO do some simple tweaks:
1. First and foremost, take that big AMT unit OUT of the front baffle, and mount it ON TOP of the speaker. Experiment with the placement front-to-back, until you get the right location for optimal phase --your ears will tell you when you've found it.
2. Then EITHER plug up the hole where it came out, and continue to run the speaker as a two-way, OR (much better):
3. Get a good, fast mid-bass driver to put where the AMT came out, and re-configure the crossover to make the speaker a 3-way, something more like the rock monitor.
Even if you don't do the last part, AT LEAST move the AMT unit on top, as in step 1 above. You won't believe how much these speakers improve, just from this one tweak. It's like night and day. I know; I've owned two of them and done it to them both (before eventually converting the boxes to something else and just retaining the AMTs for my line-array project using them).
1. First and foremost, take that big AMT unit OUT of the front baffle, and mount it ON TOP of the speaker. Experiment with the placement front-to-back, until you get the right location for optimal phase --your ears will tell you when you've found it.
2. Then EITHER plug up the hole where it came out, and continue to run the speaker as a two-way, OR (much better):
3. Get a good, fast mid-bass driver to put where the AMT came out, and re-configure the crossover to make the speaker a 3-way, something more like the rock monitor.
Even if you don't do the last part, AT LEAST move the AMT unit on top, as in step 1 above. You won't believe how much these speakers improve, just from this one tweak. It's like night and day. I know; I've owned two of them and done it to them both (before eventually converting the boxes to something else and just retaining the AMTs for my line-array project using them).
