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Too many cabinets in the SF bay area?
« Thread Started on Apr 13, 2012, 4:37pm »
Yup, I'm looking for someone who knows of a cabinet builder in the SF bay area. I figure that with all the bat-shit-insane-take-no-prisoners subwoofer guys here that somebody would available to take on the work.

You see, it's my visually mismatched subwoofers; They're driving me crazy. In each front corner i have stacked sets consisting of a M&K MX-5000 on the bottom with two MK MX-2000s on top of that. But the MX-5000s are of a slightly different driver configuration that the 2000s. Both cabinets are rectangular,, but one has the driver in the front baffle while the other subs have the drivers mounted on the sides...

So there you are, trying to corner-load these beasts and you realise: " Hey, waitaminute! I can't get all the drivers to actually face the wall at the same time!" Either you orient two of them sideways and one backwards...or you give up.

Damnit! I want ALL my cabinets to be the same.


Sorry-End of rant. Anybody got ideas?

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« Reply #1 on Apr 13, 2012, 5:28pm »
pictures man ...post some pictures so we can rant along w/you :) ....

sorry I don't know any builders :(
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« Reply #2 on Apr 13, 2012, 5:31pm »
So... turn them.
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« Reply #3 on Apr 13, 2012, 5:37pm »

Apr 13, 2012, 5:31pm, DYohn wrote:
So... turn them.


Turn them, you say. Good God man, I want "Take no prisoners", not common sense!

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« Reply #4 on Apr 13, 2012, 5:48pm »
Have skippy machine you some ;)
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« Reply #5 on Apr 13, 2012, 5:55pm »

Apr 13, 2012, 5:48pm, Aluminati Sound wrote:
Have skippy machine you some ;)


Now, That's Funny!
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« Reply #6 on Apr 13, 2012, 5:56pm »

Apr 13, 2012, 5:28pm, Dr. Feel Good wrote:
pictures man ...post some pictures so we can rant along w/you :) ....

sorry I don't know any builders :(


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« Reply #7 on Apr 14, 2012, 7:20pm »
here you are, matt-some pictures of my speakers in my temporary crammed-full space.

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« Reply #8 on Apr 14, 2012, 7:42pm »
Hey,another person with a Laserdisc player,cool! ;D
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« Reply #9 on Apr 14, 2012, 8:02pm »

Apr 14, 2012, 7:42pm, dcg44s wrote:
Hey,another person with a Laserdisc player,cool! ;D


yup; had it since it was new. and now i've been stuck with hundreds of discs that don't even look as good as a DVD, let alone blu-ray...

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« Reply #10 on Apr 14, 2012, 8:23pm »
And you're worried about how it looks? ;D
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« Reply #11 on Apr 14, 2012, 8:27pm »

Apr 14, 2012, 8:02pm, barryrobin wrote:

Apr 14, 2012, 7:42pm, dcg44s wrote:
Hey,another person with a Laserdisc player,cool! ;D


yup; had it since it was new. and now i've been stuck with hundreds of discs that don't even look as good as a DVD, let alone blu-ray...

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Hey,some of those Laserdiscs bring good money on eBay if you want to try and unload them.Sometimes I'm actually shocked what certain titles will sell for.
As for making the best of what you have,I'm not sure how you have yours connected but most players actually have a better picture using composite instead of the s-video out.The exceptions are the CLD-99 with a 3D comb filter and some of the Japanese imports.
Also,yours looks like one of the combo DVD/LD units and I have heard that the picture is compromised on both in order to have one unit play both.I have never owned a combo unit though to actually compare.
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« Reply #12 on Apr 14, 2012, 8:40pm »

Apr 14, 2012, 8:23pm, DYohn wrote:
And you're worried about how it looks? ;D


i guess i have deep psychological issues...probable size related. ;D

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« Reply #13 on Apr 14, 2012, 8:43pm »

Apr 14, 2012, 7:20pm, barryrobin wrote:
here you are, matt-some pictures of my speakers in my temporary crammed-full space.

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Why the heck u need so many speakers?it way way too many....!
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« Reply #14 on Apr 14, 2012, 8:45pm »

Apr 14, 2012, 8:27pm, dcg44s wrote:

Apr 14, 2012, 8:02pm, barryrobin wrote:


yup; had it since it was new. and now i've been stuck with hundreds of discs that don't even look as good as a DVD, let alone blu-ray...

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Hey,some of those Laserdiscs bring good money on eBay if you want to try and unload them.Sometimes I'm actually shocked what certain titles will sell for.
As for making the best of what you have,I'm not sure how you have yours connected but most players actually have a better picture using composite instead of the s-video out.The exceptions are the CLD-99 with a 3D comb filter and some of the Japanese imports.
Also,yours looks like one of the combo DVD/LD units and I have heard that the picture is compromised on both in order to have one unit play both.I have never owned a combo unit though to actually compare.


man but you've got a good eye! it is indeed one of the combo players.
and you're right about some of them being rather substandard. mine's the DVL-91, to me the "best" of the compromises...
but it's still a compromise.

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« Reply #15 on Apr 14, 2012, 8:52pm »

Apr 14, 2012, 8:43pm, odin2ken wrote:

Apr 14, 2012, 7:20pm, barryrobin wrote:
here you are, matt-some pictures of my speakers in my temporary crammed-full space.





Why the heck u need so many speakers?it way way too many....!
U got only 2 ears!


I have Fourteen-don't you? ;D

as i mentioned earlier, the current placement is temporary. the room it's normally set up in is the size of a movie theater-19,000 cubic feet. now try filling up my room with a standard set-up. can't be done. there's a reason why theaters need to use so many speakers...
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« Reply #16 on Apr 29, 2012, 11:16am »
Took a "more is better" approach did we?
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« Reply #17 on Apr 29, 2012, 11:23am »
I may be wrong, but it looks to me like those speakers you have there are not all from the same manufacturer. Even in a huge space, how can that setup sound decent? Voice matching is completely gone. Just seems a bit wierd to me.
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Apr 29, 2012, 11:23am, generalkorrd wrote:
I may be wrong, but it looks to me like those speakers you have there are not all from the same manufacturer. Even in a huge space, how can that setup sound decent? Voice matching is completely gone. Just seems a bit wierd to me.


all of them are from M&K. the smallish monitors with the two drivers and three tweeters are salvage from lucasfilm; they're used for nearfield dubbing during editing.
the larger cabinets with the two 6" drivers and only two tweeters between are the mates, used for playback in the screening room. and they all use the same crossovers.

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« Reply #19 on Apr 29, 2012, 4:48pm »

Apr 13, 2012, 5:56pm, barryrobin wrote:
[quote author=dfgkali board=subwoofeers thread=23740 post=390462 time=1334356100]pictures man ...post some pictures so we can rant along w/you :) ....

sorry I don't know any builders :(


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