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I'm awaiting response from Angie at the Hyatt to find out what is open in April and May this year. I know Easter is the 3rd weekend of April, AXPONA is the 25-27 in Chi-Town, and I'd really like to avoid the Vera Bradley sale again this year.
This will again be a Fri/Sat event as normal, and I have a planned theme to tag along with this.
Along those lines, if you recall last fall some were brainstorming what they would like me to do or to allow, and I've come down to 2 things:
*Series Xovers- Most of the builders here use parallel varieties, but I would like to extrapolate upon this line of thinking. There are OTHER ways to xover drivers to each other. Most of the builders prefer an LR4 alignment for a standard TM 2-way, and BW3 is liked for filling in the dips and nulls in an MTM. LR2 is also difficult unless you have the right drivers and I've seen quite a few in the last few years of those as well. I've even seen a linear-phase result in Jeff's Kairos.
So- extrapolated....
Use something unconventional/less-prevalent in terms of xover alignment. SXO, Gaussian, Cauer-elliptic, BW1, Linear-phase, or Transient Perfect for example. Bessel, LR-anything, BW2+ need not parallelally (=-)) apply. If this develops into a sonic competition, more points will be awarded if the SXO is used- more on this later. Of course, you can build an SXO of the "Bessel, LR-anything, BW2+" and still be allowed in.
*Rectangular prism boxes- Let's not use them at all. I want to see odd shapes, non-right-angled panels, and driver positions that aren't necessarily normal if you can make it work.
I dub this:
**Ludicrosity**
Use your artistic expressions, your miter-saw, and your good sense to come up with something entirely different and that still sounds great.
As to the limit on drivers (xover not included this year, as this could be widely variant) 300/pair total sounds reasonable. As usual- no buyout drivers, unless you can find a regular price somewhere that is not the buyout price. Please do not use drivers that are no longer available.
See what you can come up with!!
Any Questions?
Wolf
This will again be a Fri/Sat event as normal, and I have a planned theme to tag along with this.
Along those lines, if you recall last fall some were brainstorming what they would like me to do or to allow, and I've come down to 2 things:
*Series Xovers- Most of the builders here use parallel varieties, but I would like to extrapolate upon this line of thinking. There are OTHER ways to xover drivers to each other. Most of the builders prefer an LR4 alignment for a standard TM 2-way, and BW3 is liked for filling in the dips and nulls in an MTM. LR2 is also difficult unless you have the right drivers and I've seen quite a few in the last few years of those as well. I've even seen a linear-phase result in Jeff's Kairos.
So- extrapolated....
Use something unconventional/less-prevalent in terms of xover alignment. SXO, Gaussian, Cauer-elliptic, BW1, Linear-phase, or Transient Perfect for example. Bessel, LR-anything, BW2+ need not parallelally (=-)) apply. If this develops into a sonic competition, more points will be awarded if the SXO is used- more on this later. Of course, you can build an SXO of the "Bessel, LR-anything, BW2+" and still be allowed in.
*Rectangular prism boxes- Let's not use them at all. I want to see odd shapes, non-right-angled panels, and driver positions that aren't necessarily normal if you can make it work.
I dub this:
**Ludicrosity**
Use your artistic expressions, your miter-saw, and your good sense to come up with something entirely different and that still sounds great.
As to the limit on drivers (xover not included this year, as this could be widely variant) 300/pair total sounds reasonable. As usual- no buyout drivers, unless you can find a regular price somewhere that is not the buyout price. Please do not use drivers that are no longer available.
See what you can come up with!!
Any Questions?
Wolf
Y'all heard the series XO anyway. It even has an unconventional twist borrowed from CE filters.
, and needs encouraging to do something different. Some of us have played in the sandbox, and prefer the swingset - we get closer to the sun that way.
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