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Markwart and Tucker's Karlsons
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Posted on August 23, 2011 at 10:39:19 | ||
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After many years and after trying several bass solutions I finally arrived to the perfect solution for bass below my midbass horns. In the past I tried Edgar Jr Seismics, a K18, a good Revel subwoofer and a JBL 18" in an open baffle among others. It's not easy to get a bass solution fast enough to integrate with front loaded horns. A bass horn looks like a perfect solution but has its own problems due to space constraints plus time delay. Three years ago I heard an Exemplar Audio system and I was impressed by the bass John Tucker was getting out of his Karslons and wanted to try them since then. So finally a couple of weeks ago, with the generous help from a friend, I finished modifying a pair of Karlsons for subwoofer duties following Jeff Markwart and John Tucker's recipe published in one of the early Sound Practices. And last week with the help of other friends we dialed them in (phase basically). I'm driving them with a big McIntosh Mc275. The drivers are Altec 416 As. And the results have exceeded all my expectations. Deep, fast and musical bass. No boominess or any distortion. Clean bass but most of all integrating perfectly and seamlessly with the horns. They're flat from around 30hz to maybe 200 hz. I can post measurements later. I'm loving them! |
RE: Markwart and Tucker's Karlsons, posted on August 23, 2011 at 11:17:56 | |
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Joined: March 21, 2009 |
Pics, plans, writeup, schematics? Thanks. |
RE: Markwart and Tucker's Karlsons, posted on August 29, 2011 at 04:17:37 | |
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Location: dallas, tx Joined: June 11, 2005 |
folks just don't listen to us when we recommend karlsons as bass bins |