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• Thank you for that link. It was helpful. - Quiet Earth 22:43:48 04/01/07 (2)
  In Reply to: There's a school of thought that small-gage wire is better-sounding overall; I've linked the thread. posted by jeffreybehr on April 1, 2007 at 12:00:45:

  And the pictures that you posted are great too. Thanks for sharing that. Although, I must admit that I am heading in the complete oposite direction of what you have. I'm trying to get the most out of a single amp (per channel) and I'm headed towards a single driver speaker too.

  But I certainly appreciate all of that effort it took to put your system together. How do you like your Music Reference EM7? I wouldn't have thought that it would have enough power to drive a complicated load like that. Amazing.
  
  

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  • Well, it may LOOK complicated, but from an amp's perspective, it's not. - jeffreybehr 09:50:31 04/02/07 (1)
    In Reply to: Thank you for that link. It was helpful. posted by Quiet Earth on April 1, 2007 at 22:43:48:

    I'm using active fitering and eq. from a dbx DriveRack PA, so the EM7 amp driving the B/MR is driving an 8-Ohm load of speakers with NO inductors or capacitors in the signal path, with filterpoints of 40Hz and 2.5KHz. The tweeter amp sees the same kind of load but for 16 Ohms and from 2.5KHz up. The woofers are a 4-Ohm load, again with no reactive components in the signal path.

    Yes it has lots of amp channels and drivers and ICs, but it sounds VERY coherent...all 'of one cloth'...and frankly it's the best-sounding speaker system I've ever heard...period.

    The EM7 amps sound quite nice; try one.
    
    
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    • less complicated without a crossover and bandwidth limited too - Quiet Earth 11:29:45 04/02/07 (0)
      In Reply to: Well, it may LOOK complicated, but from an amp's perspective, it's not. posted by jeffreybehr on April 2, 2007 at 09:50:31:

      I understand what you're saying. There is no crossover after the amp and so there is no filter to overcome. You have a direct connection to each voice coil.

      But, you have eight reactive loads hooked up simultaneously to one amplifier output. Perhaps each load has a slightly different length of wire getting back to the amp too. I'm not so sure you can classify that as a simple load. Simpler than going through a crossover, maybe. But not simple like single driver simple.

      It's all academic though because it is working so well for you. I'm just thinking out loud. That's a big 2.5 Watts in the EM7! Impressive.

      Btw, all of your projects look like a lot of fun. What were we talking about ? . . . . oh yeah, wire. I get sidetracked so easily.
      
      

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