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In Reply to: RE: who remembers the Fried Model Qs? posted by FlaCharlie on June 22, 2014 at 10:15:05
nope, they are honest to god high end speakers at a bargain level price. i shot myself in the foot not buying them when i had a chance.
...regards...tr
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a talented guy with an unfortunate name: I M Fried!
(yeah, he pronounces it "freed") :)
... since you wind up looking at results that are by far mostly trashed speakers. Sure, there's "IMF," but, still ...
I was only comparing their construction. The Frieds have a slot/port at the bottom, like the BIC Venturi, but the slot is stuffed/aperiodic, like the A-25, while the BICs are open. From what I read online, the model Q is not an actual transmission line, like other, larger, Fried models.
Since I haven't actually heard mine properly, I can't comment on sound quality. Your high praise makes me more eager to fix them up. When I tested them, one of mine sounded distorted. I thought it might have a blown woofer, although there didn't seem to be any voice coil rub. I swapped it with the woofer from the other cabinet and the distortion stayed with the same cabinet. On inspection, the connections in the crossover seemed a bit corroded so I'll eventually rebuild the crossover and clean up (and solder) all the connections.
. . . Charlie
It's not a transmission line. It's a stuffed port that works like the Dynaco A25 worked. However the crossover is series rather than parallel because Bud Fried believed it had nicer impedance characteristics as did the bass loading compared to the same size closed box and thus was more dynamic. He used the term dynamic linearity. And the speaker was very dynamic.
The term used for the stuffed tunnel was line tunnel because it sounded like the transmission line used in bigger Frieds. And Bud considered it the 2nd best bass loading after the transmission line. I personally think, in some ways, it's nicer than a transmission line depending on how the transmission line is stuffed.
try to match the original components in the xover electronics and if you change to different types of caps or resistors, make both xovers the same.
that is, part for part. change in one xover, change in the other. that way they will both sound the same for sure.
...regards...tr
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