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This doesn’t follow, please correct me if I’m mistaken but in Canada, and the rest of North America, is it not the maximum draw, in watts and/or current, that an appliance is rated at and not the average draw?
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Rick - No. I'll be boxing them up this weekend to send back
Alan - Thanks for the info! I have no doubt from my initial tests that they are more than doing the job!
Tuning the system now with my SPL Meter and my test tone disc. The disc only goes down to 20Hz though! The initial curves were pretty flat (better than the EP500s). I am in the process of manually adding two filters on my BFD to get rid of my 66Hz room hump, and a little boost around 24Hz. I am tuning the room to 75db in the >100Hz range, and 80-81db on the <100Hz range (like I had with the EP500s). MUCH SLOWER without REW, but doable.
-Steve
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Tuning the system now with my SPL Meter and my test tone disc. The disc only goes down to 20Hz though! The initial curves were pretty flat (better than the EP500s). I am in the process of manually adding two filters on my BFD to get rid of my 66Hz room hump, and a little boost around 24Hz. I am tuning the room to 75db in the >100Hz range, and 80-81db on the <100Hz range (like I had with the EP500s). MUCH SLOWER without REW, but doable.
-Steve Is there some kind of tutorial on determining how to get your room "flat" or getting rid of a "hump" (whatever that is)? I feel like I might be missing out on really getting the most out of my system after reading a few threads lately, especially with the new M80's. Thanks, and sorry to hijack.
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Vasillios. If you are using REW, this software creates the filters for you so all you have to do is enterthe numbers into the bfd and you're done. I was quite surprised that the predicted response was pretty much exactly what I got.
I would imaging doing it manually would be an itterative process. You would have to figure out the center fewquency, amount of cut or gain and the Q.
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I think that the dual EP800's look stupid. In fact, I think that everyone's EP800 look dumb....
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So why not box them up and send them my way! Then I can put one in every room in my house and have bass utopia!!!! YEAH BABY!!! I can FEEL it now!!!!
(Disclaimer: To take advantage of this limited time "Don't look stupid" offer, carefully pack up your EP800(s) in their original Axiom packaging and send them prepaid, by you, to Nick Buol... PM for shipping address. Act today. Batteries not included. Not valid in Puerto Rico or Guam.)
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Hi,
Incidentally, the stand-by draw of all of Axiom's DSP subwoofers (EP400, 500, 600 and 800) is 12 watts. When the subs are "On", no signal driving them, that rises to 15 watts.
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Hey Guys,
Okay, I've had about 5 hours to tune and audition the changes to my system. For those of you who do not know, I previously ran two EP500s, and now running two EP800s. I'll start with my initial impressions from last night. After just hooking up the EP800s to replace the old subs (AND keeping the old BFD parameters in place), there was very little bass. I was so disappointed! Even my wife noticed it. I then tuned the BFD off... No Bass whatsoever.
I remembered that the BFD adds about 3-4db of gain by being in the loop, so I left it on and then cleared out the programs. Okay, but still not there. I had initially set the EP800s to the same setting as he EP500s (about 7 o'clock). I brought them up to about 10 o'clock to get the same perceived gain (Looking into the future, after Alan's response, it makes sense. It's the same amp driving two drivers in parallel, therefore, more gain is required.)
Okay, so now I had the same perceived gain, but it sounded "muddy". Most likely because I was comparing a non-tuned pair of subs to a tuned pair of subs. Since I did not have my laptop with the REW software with me, I would have to tune it old school with my SPL meter and paper and pen. I wanted a sub tuning about 5-6db hotter than my full range for preference.
But it was late and time for bed... Part II next.
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