Twin Towers BUILD LOG

I just about consider it finished. You guys were right, I do have terrible flex so I will be bracing more later. I told you so's are welcome. But here are some final looks pics and yet another vid.

I was sitting here, in the room next to it, listening to some music while catching up on the forums... some songs shaking the floor and chair different than others. A Gucci Mane song came on and at first I thought one of the cats jumped on the back of the seat or ran into the couch. Nope, subs. But then this other song came on...and the whole house just wobbles. It's great. I doubt anyone else will be able to get the low part, it's pretty insane. I turned it up more at about 1:10... it still has room to go, but since it just pops out quick, waits, pops out..rather than a continuous sine wave... I cant easily gauge how much excursion it reaches..so I played it safe.









http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5nE94gTYzQ

thanks for all the interest and inspiring posts!

krypto

 

Alright everyone, so I've had some time to tweak everything and watch a few movies. Words can't describe, so I'll let "glass tap" tell it all in the vid. I'll give it a quick jab tho... these two towers are amazing. The sound is HUGE. I don't mean huge as in great big and powerful, forceful. I mean they just sound enormous even at low volume. Be it infrasonics that are so low and soft and fluffy in the single digits, or the depth in voices way up high in the 60-80Hz range. Be it roads cracking up and rumbling and robots emerging from the ground, or combined with the hardest/tightest punch and kick from "warp speed ahead". These things are nothing short of amazing.

Earlier today when my boys were over we watched some of Nemo. My electric simply can not keep up..I must get this fixed ASAP. I found I had to keep turing the receiver itself down as well as the sub level, because the receiver kept protecting itself. Somehow though, Glass Tap. There really arent words. IDK how my house doesn't fall apart, and I didn't notice as I was recording...but watching the play back... I can't even hold the camera still.

I watched transformers tonight and at first I was making note to go back and record here and there...till I decided forget it. I'm just going to enjoy it. I am more than pleased.. thank you Fi, thank you Scott, thank you everyone on the forums over the years. I've gotten myself quite the self-education from you people.

As far as bracing goes: I'll say it again, I was wrong, there is an issue from about 25-40Hz at high volume with music. Most of the time I can not turn my music loud enough where this is a problem, or I'd have cops here and an electrical fire. For movies, it is a non issue. So much so, that I have 15 8' 2x4's under my bed waiting..theyve been there since I completed the two tower build...and they're gonna stay there because it's not a problem enough to stop the VAN build for it.

I know I have had bandwidth issues since all of a sudden both threads became big hits for a little while..so I'll repost the finished pics.

So here we go:

Transformers. 1 hour 54 minutes, "Everyone alright?" Bumble bee pulls himself out. I have so much headroom here, this is at low volume to keep cops from coming, and because I simply don't need it any louder than this. If your system recreates this part when you watch the movie, you can dig deep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5RJXAjjACc

And this is just retarded. I don't know anyone who would want any more than this. I'm a tru bass head, and it's over the top for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5CPq4_XUaU

 

Thanks man! Sounds even sicker

 

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Does the Denon AVR-2310CI have a HP filter on the subwoofer, a subsonic filter? I am getting more comfortable with the Two Towers now and starting to turn the subwoofer level up more and more on the receiver and watching close for excursion.
Since switching to the receiver/EP4000's from the HT in a box driving the subs, single digit output from movies is GONE. Until now I have been thinking it was the EP4000's, but today I am watching the amp signal lights and where I had single digit output before that is gone now, the lights aren't showing signal either. Same Blu-Ray player, but I think the receiver is filtering 10Hz down!

 

I got Avatar last night, it's now my favorite movie. I can't believe all of the color, all of the detail. My new TV has never looked so good before! DTS HD... gotta love it. The rear channels were mixed so well, I had to look once..I got faked out thinking something, someone was behind me...because it's never sounded that real before. The LFE? Well the jet rocket craft gives the entire house a treat, the robots with every step and jump. But the wings. Every single flap of the wing moves so much air, you actually have wind from the dual 12" ports and dual 18's. The whole house becomes one with everything in it.

At the end, it played this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAh0qEz1FSw

Astonishing.

 

I've got a bunch of Avatar clips I made... but the 1st two vids are in the VAN, the 2nd one is the sequence I have to do to activate video. This is for those of you that will sit there and watch all 10 of my vids cuz I see that there are some of you out there Thanks for watching!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3NLz6fG1lk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15ktGpYKpQQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk6rejtxB7M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz9PborV5kQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD1draZ9yK4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYmtxAJtRSc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQhT6pJfVbE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrEBvzOx5Xc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMsKXb-arMo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f3lSlUZUiM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG9dX7zrJYY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOo6Aej1BQk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMUe6XfplJo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inL136Gs7UE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWfsz6R8r0A

If this is too many videos for any of you, please let me know. HTS gets bandwidth eaten up apparently as they aren't just links, they get hosted or something on that refind, mature, sophisticated, prestigious, and delicate little shack over there I can put a space in each link to break it so it can then be copy/pasted instead

 

here is a track that DB-Audio from http://carstereoforum.net/showthread.... made for me. AKA crazedevilx

I had to keep it down for the neighbors, it's 4:10AM here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zbf12winXs

 

No complaints yet

 

you guys with sonotubes, how do you cut the thick stuff? I've got 20" so 1/4" walls..utility knife not as easy on this as the 8" and 12" tube

 

glad to! Thanks for posting!

 

the HT or the VAN? The HT is done, the VAN I am stuck have you posted/seen the VAN build log thread?

 

cannons first..not impressive. then hand guns, guessin just under 3" Xcursion, then.. the gatling gun... subs goin full eaxcursion over 3"..but only initially, then the sound fades away to "dream land"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg-rP9ALXL4

 

I will be getting 4 06' RE Audio XXX 18's for the VAN. I'll be putting the 4 IB3 18's from the van in with the other 2 in the towers. I'll use the 20" sonotube I have left over from the van for the Two Towers, 20" off the rear of the towers, 5" sticking out, for a total length of 33" or so..give or take.. around 13Hz..give or take. 2 EP4000's run at 2.66ohm nominal but will rarely ever see that. I know I will catch static for that, but hey, this is Kryprto...what's new? Bring it...

2"x4" bracing will be added with lots of PL PRO and 3" screws.





http://www.caraudiotalk.com/audio-forum/showthread.php?p=83645#post83645

 

I love how it takes up the room, cuz you crawl into the experience! And the platform obsorbes all the subsonics and just rumbles you... I love it!