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In the Thread: Starting from scratch - new amps new system
Post Subject: No i haven'tPosted by Dominic on: 2/3/2007
The speakers i've got are JBL studio monitors using a 2420 (118dbwm 16O) on top and a 2231 (93dbwm, 8O) on the bottom, which already accomodate bi amping, though like i mentioned a midrange driver would probably be a good idea and so a six way amp would be nice. I'd also like to try bi-amping my jensen Coax drivers.

i suppose even though i've explained my reasons i haven't divulged my plan.
Now i realise it's a tall order.
I wouldn't mind 1.5kper 2-channels but it appears that i'd have to build 4 regular Melq. to get 4 channels. which would be around 6k us, which kinda sucks as a short term outlay for me, which isn't a big deal usually i'm very very patient, but i'm amplifier-less as of now; what i've got has kicked it and i need something to get me in on the ground floor, and i'm hoping this is the right building. This is exacerbated  by having some other big costs at the moment: dropping a trip to europe in favour of building an amplifier seems a funny trade-off.
I'm pretty sure my ultimate sonic goals are far removed from what i can afford as a completed product that answers those goals (off the shelf or not) so what i was getting at was something 'good-enough' with (or can be modified such that it has) at least four 'ways' that i can 'flavour' according to my transducer situation and eventually 'upgrade to full speed and dynamic ability' bit by bit as funds allow. Maybe cheap stereo 6c33c, using half a 6c per channel and then eventually upgrade to melq level? Something to tide me over for the meantime at least. I do have some parts for a gainclone project, but that doesn't seem to offer any useful place to go soundwise, and as we seem to have established, probably won't be all that great a channel tuning device.

I'm asking these questions because i don't have a Dimitri or Geoff to pester to help turn my dream sound into an actual machine. The closest i've got couldn't tell me the first thing about what makes an amp perform, only what procedure to follow when assembling.

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