DD, welcome back to posting. Sorry to hear about the surgery. I'm sure I'll be there one of these days if I can live long enough!

Glad it went well. My late wife's father has had three hip replacements. (He likes to say that and watch people do the math). One, then the other, then a redo of the first. He's always happy because the pain is gone when the healing is done. I hope he lives to have a few more.

Today, I took advantage of the fact that all my neighbors were heading out to work this morning (I am still on leave of absence to recover from hip surgery. I have to use a cane still) and all the aged ones, several houses  away, are mostly deaf anyway (I trust).

I set things up on my back deck and cranked this enclosure up all by itself at first, then adding a very powerful full range enclosure (no other subs).



My high boxes are rather large,  8 cubic feet (tallish) enclosures each with  2 - JBL E140s,  1- JBL E120 (in its own sealed enclosure), JBL 2380/2445 bi-radial horn/4 inch compression driver combo, via passive XO (sorry, I forget the JBL model number, bringing the horns in passive at about 800Hz, ), dual 2405s (ultra hi-frequency drivers) via passive N7000 XO.  In other words, these upper Sohmbitches are very efficient, incredibly accurate and, if need be, they can get extremely loud!!


I was originally trying to stay vintage with all my drivers AND power,  but I am using a very powerful modern-ish high power amplifier for the sub.  The vintage electronic 2-Way Stereo crossovers I am using are Crown VFX-2. (I am shooting for a totally vintage set up, eventually - ;^)).

Using 1 600W/channel sub amp (driving the Housewrecker components - about 3 times as much power as I need, but HEY, it is one of what I have on hand!!), two DC-300s, bi-amped (1 for the dual 15s, and 1 for the 12s, horns and Ultra HF drivers.


I crossed over the sub (Housewrecker) at 70Hz (using a modernish Crown CTs-1200) allowing the dual 15s to come in strong at that point (using 1 DC-300 for all four 15s), then the single 12s, horns and super tweets came in at 220 Hz (using the second DC-300).

The best way to put it ...

A single 15" HW, doing only low sub duty, kept up with the rest of the system quite well!! REALLY WELL!!

I came up with those XO points after almost an hour of really loud testing/measuring with pink noise and several CDs to enjoy.



I guess I just wanted to prove to myself that as good as this thing sounds at a whisper, it will also shake the ground if called upon to do so.


Only two people stopped by during all my testing - one very confused teen tooling by on a scooter  (I discovered that I was older than his grandfather, but somewhat more cool, it seems) and my neighbor's wife from three doors down, driving home after a shopping trip.