Small Cannons

[race4aliving]

Oh I don't know. Some of us just lurk.

Hey, I resemble that remark but, I always did sit in the back row in class.

 

[mulester7]

.....question about capacitors....Guys, when you click a slave amp OFF and the music or dialogue continues for a short moment, is that the capacitors releasing or draining?.....

 

[silversurfer]

.....question about capacitors....Guys, when you click a slave amp OFF and the music or dialogue continues for a short moment, is that the capacitors releasing or draining?.....

Yup. Capacitors draining stored energy.

 

[mulester7]

Yup. Capacitors draining stored energy.

.....ok, thanks, SilverSurfer....the Earthquake is now powering the high small cannons top-cut at 150 as I wait on FedUp for the 12's and boxes, and DCX's....at lower levels of listening, like TV for background, when I click all the amps off and click the Earthquake last, the high small cannons continue to put out solidly normal for sometimes five or six seconds....would that be decent capacitors?.....

 

[race4aliving]

My Accuphase will do the same thing.

 

[Duffinator]

Hey Mule, did you ever post pictures of your small cannons once they were completed? Maybe I missed them in another thread?

 

[mulester7]

......Esteemed Colleagues, I am so very fortunate....I have six main's regiment speakers on the way, two McIntosh amps on the way, a 250 foot roll of speaker wire on the way, two Behringer DCX 2496's soon to be ordered, two bass seperate 15's and boxes to order soon, and I'll be eating saltine crackers and water for years, haha....will report......

 

[mulester7]

.....Race4aLiving, that Accuphase must have good capacitors and transformer....The Duffinator, all I got is a camera phone....you wouldn't be able to tell a speaker from the dog....sorry to both of you to have missed these two posts back in April, (wow, I must be gettin' old)......

 

[mulester7]

.....well, two boxes showed up on my porch today....one was little and contained spices, and the other big enough to contain a riding lawnmower....inside is two amps and three wooden cabinets....the box probably weighs better than 225 pounds....I slowly and gently rolled it end-over-end through the front door into the formal living room only enough to shut the front door, and there she sits....I was whupped from gently letting it sit down each roll....will open it soon, and transfer downstairs by two-wheeler via the business elevator.....

 

[malvado78]

Mule I was under the impression you had a film camera. You could take pictures with that and have Walmart put them on a CD for you. I been visiting the this website since last april and ever since you got the barns I have been sitting in anticipation of seeing those twins. Then the small cannons. PLEASE. Please. Snap those pics and post them.

Brad

 

[mulester7]

Mule I was under the impression you had a film camera. You could take pictures with that and have Walmart put them on a CD for you. I been visiting the this website since last april and ever since you got the barns I have been sitting in anticipation of seeing those twins. Then the small cannons. PLEASE. Please. Snap those pics and post them.

Brad

.....Brad, that's hard to argue with, you worm, haha....of course just kidding....my theater was/is hacked out of storage area in the basement of the house I grew up in, that suffered two inch deep water one time from the hot water heater busting....for about 12 hours....different colors of worthless carpet in the theater....if I do say so though, real good equipment is being employed as I accumulate used stuff.....this MC126 six-channel amp is just been hooked up powering my surrounds, as my MC2200 kicks the front mains....McIntosh "presence" has now been made whole in my theater with the MC126, as my MC2105 is in the shop....diction so crisp and bold you want to shout hallelujah....I'll try to do something on pictures, Brad, but I've never downloaded anything to the hard drive and then pulled it back up and all that....you know....I'm a computer illiterate by choice....I ain't gonna' try to figure something out on the computer for two days......

 

[mulester7]

.....I'm beginning to wonder if it's a good idea to strap "any" amp, or parallel "any" two speakers....more authority comes, but I think the overall "presence" in the sound chamber suffers....the natural presence seems to leave, because it does.....

 

[mulester7]

.....you Guys with bi-ampable/wireable speakers, humor me....let's acknowledge the fact when bi-amped, there are two seperate amp sections going through two seperate, (would have to be seperate), crossover sections, (think fire), to get to the high and low of the elements....and, when bi-wiring or using the strapping bars on the terminals, why wouldn't those crossover sections and all attached to them be paralleled?....I suggest listening to just the bi-ampable/wireable speakers you have, and see if you prefer bi-amping from a presence standpoint against strapping....don't think loudness or authority....think natural sounding presence....not strapping is quite probably a move for better overall presence in the sound chamber....sometimes the mains getting hit with strapped amps with all other speakers naturally amped can sound good too....oh, the dilemmas of life......

 

[WmAx]

I am convinced that you will not be satisfed until you eventually cover your entire front wall with subwoofers, ranging from 10 x 8", 8 x 12", 6 x 15", 4 x 18" and 4 x 22" just for good measure. I suspect you will have to have a second main wired to your house from the pole just to power the 30 kilowatts of amplifiers you will surely have......



-Chris

 

[malvado78]

.....Brad, that's hard to argue with, you worm, haha....of course just kidding....my theater was/is hacked out of storage area in the basement of the house I grew up in, that suffered two inch deep water one time from the hot water heater busting....for about 12 hours....different colors of worthless carpet in the theater....if I do say so though, real good equipment is being employed as I accumulate used stuff.....this MC126 six-channel amp is just been hooked up powering my surrounds, as my MC2200 kicks the front mains....McIntosh "presence" has now been made whole in my theater with the MC126, as my MC2105 is in the shop....diction so crisp and bold you want to shout hallelujah....I'll try to do something on pictures, Brad, but I've never downloaded anything to the hard drive and then pulled it back up and all that....you know....I'm a computer illiterate by choice....I ain't gonna' try to figure something out on the computer for two days......

Just giving you a hard time Mule. But if you can thats great, if you can't you can't.

I am convinced that you will not be satisfed until you eventually cover your entire front wall with subwoofers, ranging from 10 x 8", 8 x 12", 6 x 15", 4 x 18" and 4 x 22" just for good measure. I suspect you will have to have a second main wired to your house from the pole just to power the 30 kilowatts of amplifiers you will surely have......



-Chris

This is hilarious and I would bet that maybe he'd be happy then. At least for a month right?

 

[mulester7]

.....Guys, with this MC126 six-channel amp, you DO lose a natural presence when you strap any one of the three internal stereo amp sections....this is a Bose trick in some sub/cube set-ups, but Bose then adds special eq'ing on the top and bottom of the bumped full-range signals....it's still a sight short of the imaging and +/- range of speakers we own, but it sure sells a lot of cubes, don't it?, haha.......

 

[mulester7]

I am convinced that you will not be satisfed until you eventually cover your entire front wall with subwoofers, ranging from 10 x 8", 8 x 12", 6 x 15", 4 x 18" and 4 x 22" just for good measure. I suspect you will have to have a second main wired to your house from the pole just to power the 30 kilowatts of amplifiers you will surely have......



-Chris

.....Chris, I believe it's going to be 2 10's sitting on mini-barns, 2 12's sitting on a skeletal wooden stand above the inside woofer of each mini-barn, and one 15 on the floor in the dead center....12's, 15, and mini-barns being kicked by the Earthquake 5.....

 

[mulester7]

Just giving you a hard time Mule. But if you can thats great, if you can't you can't

.....Malvado, I promise, at some point, I'm going to post pictures....I just ordered a Spiderman watch that has a camera onboard for $19.95 shipped....great snaps soon, haha....you guys would be asking if the picture was a fish-tank or a pickup truck....

 

[mulester7]

I am convinced that you will not be satisfed until you eventually cover your entire front wall with subwoofers, ranging from 10 x 8", 8 x 12", 6 x 15", 4 x 18" and 4 x 22" just for good measure. I suspect you will have to have a second main wired to your house from the pole just to power the 30 kilowatts of amplifiers you will surely have......



-Chris

.....well....there "is" a sub-station just past this small patch of pine trees behind me....would need about 150 foot of double .00001 gauge .....

 

[mulester7]

.....Guys, this MC126 amp I believe is dated about 2000-2001 when it came out, and I'm very thankful someone decided to let it go and it be bought used by me....what the vintage amps add is very good, but if I had to choose one or the other, I would choose the modern Mc amps for the much more transparent sound quality....some day I may try modern Mc amps all around 12 stops, but I suspect I'll still have two channels somewhere supported by a vintage amp for the airy pronounced dialogue.....I'm extremely proud of what the sound quality is becoming in my theater chamber....you take the urge to say bright, away from some speakers with a lot of damping to lessen the bounces off hard surfaces....it's really a matter of how much room brilliance do you need to let come into play....and lastly, it's probably better that basketballs are round....all I got......