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Perhaps someone with actual skill can get her image on there so you can have a final print/avitar. I'm happy to ship the file to whoever can do real art work. That whole Super Dave bit had me smiling all day. Good stuff.

I find it amusing that in that entire wikipedia link, there are no pictures of male cosplayers.

Ken, you need to submit some pics then.

That’s what makes it a great and not average invention

Micah, regarding adding extra damping to the EP800 box, I'd check with Axiom before attempting it. Ian tends to use a "just enough" philosophy with internal bracing, and I believe they've done some tests that show excessive bracing can actually harm the sound.

Really? Wow that's hard to understand. I can't think of a reason why more bracing would be detrimental? Does that mean that 400 pound Elemental Design subwoofer is hopelessly over internally braced? Perhaps it absorbs too much of the lower frequencies? I will have to ask Ian about that one.

I would be interested in seeing the reply to that one. From what I understand, most speakers and subs are a compromise. More bracing reduces cabinet resonance, but adds to the manufactureing cost and a lot to shipping costs.

You would not want to change the internal volume too much by adding bracing, but dynamat dosn't fall into that catagory.

The more interesting question is how audible cab resonance is.

Ok well here is what I wrote to Alan...



And his reply...




So it sounds to me as if lining the top and bottom of the subwoofer may be alright, but not the back. I'm going to resist tinkering with it until I hear back from Ian on the matter. Also voiding my warranty sort of bites.
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Any my latest reply to Alan...

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Ok well I do appreciate your time and thoughts on the matter. And I am eager to hear Ian's thoughts as well. Just to let you know, I was aware that playing the unit with the amp removed would change the dynamics of the system, so I wasn't doing any listening tests or anything while running this experiment. I was simply trying to watch the travel of the woofer cone to see if a wire or something was getting in the way of the speaker while it was operating.

The problem with the bad speaker (there is a replacement speaker on it's way as we speak) presented itself during movie play back where there was a lot of LFE present. During almost all of my musical recordings the EP800 seems to work flawlessly. But when really low, probably inaudible frequencies are played the right speaker has a nasty 'clanking' sound to it... I originally thought I was bottoming out the speakers. But of course this is something that the XLF won't alow, so I knew it had to be a faulty speaker. And this was all discovered with the amp firmly in place and the entire system sealed as it was intended to be, so it wasn't a reaction to a change in the original design.

I can't wait to get the new speaker installed so that I can enjoy movies the way they were meant to be heard. I'm already enjoying my music collection like I've never enjoyed it before. The M80's are truely a world class speaker. And I enjoy playing my music in 5.1 channel for the first time ever because the VP150, and the QS8's are up to the task of playing with just as much fidelity as their tower big brother. The result is my entire livingroom is filled with incredible sounding music. And all for a price that truely shocks me. I would put my system up against a system costing double what I paid any day.

I honestly believe they are that good!

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Now don't go calling me a 'suck-up'... these are after all the same thoughts I've shared on this board time and time again!

I wouldn't try that simply because it will void your 5 warranty and especially with an expensive piece of equipment such as the 800. Voiding Axiom's warranty replacement/customer service is not worth it in my opinion just to add a gimmicky product such as dynamat to the enclosure. I am not saying it will not work, I just don't like the tradeoff. But you are free to do anything you like of course .