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#232483 - 08/09/2004 02:19 Re: Little late request for v3a8... [Re: serrano1]
mtempsch pooh-bah Registered: 02/06/2000 Posts: 1996 Loc: Gothenburg, Sweden	Sorry, but no... _________________________ /Michael
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#232484 - 08/09/2004 09:55 Re: Little late request for v3a8... [Re: Daria]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3995 Loc: Manchester UK	Quote: Actually, hm. Car needs new speakers anyway, maybe I should blow them out. I'm not particularly pleased about damaging them. There was nothing wrong with them in the first place. The thought of spending over a £100 for no good reason really pisses me off!
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#232485 - 08/09/2004 20:26 Re: Little late request for v3a8... [Re: andym]
SE_Sport_Driver carpal tunnel Registered: 05/01/2001 Posts: 4903 Loc: Detroit, MI USA	How could any signal blow a speaker unless your amp was too high to begin with? I doubt the alpha had anything to do with it, even if it was supplying a very distorted signal. _________________________ Brad B.
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#232486 - 08/09/2004 20:41 Re: Little late request for v3a8... [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31565 Loc: Seattle, WA	Quote: How could any signal blow a speaker unless your amp was too high to begin with? If the software did some full-deflection sudden pops with the volume knob turned up loud enough, those could theoretically damage speakers. My system is tweaked so that -10db is about the perfect all-by-myself-on-the-freeway listening level, and I have that extra few DB as headroom so that I can turn things up extra loud if I need to (for instance, a really quiet song if voladj is off for example). I could imagine a full-deflection pop being speaker-damaging even on my carefully tuned system. _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#232487 - 08/09/2004 21:53 Re: Little late request for v3a8... [Re: andym]
Daria carpal tunnel Registered: 24/01/2002 Posts: 3937 Loc: Providence, RI	Quote: Quote: Actually, hm. Car needs new speakers anyway, maybe I should blow them out. I'm not particularly pleased about damaging them. There was nothing wrong with them in the first place. The thought of spending over a £100 for no good reason really pisses me off! I understand. Mine on the other hand came with the car, and when i got the amp and the empeg installed i didn't have time for a set of speakers also (we got there with the car at 11am and wanted to be in boston, 10 hours drive away, by midnight; i think we missed, and got there closer to 3am)
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#232488 - 09/09/2004 08:17 Re: Little late request for v3a8... [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3995 Loc: Manchester UK	Quote: How could any signal blow a speaker unless your amp was too high to begin with? I doubt the alpha had anything to do with it, even if it was supplying a very distorted signal. Have you heard alpha8 going skitz? I haven't looked on an oscilloscope but I'd imagine the waveforms look scary. Try feeding a square wave at normal listening level through your system. FWIW it was an HF driver that failed... _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#232489 - 09/09/2004 09:43 Re: Little late request for v3a8... [Re: tfabris]
SE_Sport_Driver carpal tunnel Registered: 05/01/2001 Posts: 4903 Loc: Detroit, MI USA	I guess that makes sense. Some of the music I listen to from my industrial days has a lot of square waves, so I have my system set where 0dB is loud enough for me, for the loudest song and voladj while I'm alone in the car. There are times I wish I had more volume to play with, but I decided to play it safe with my setup. I know that it has been recomended (after Andy's experience) to have to volume turned down a bit, maybe the next alpha could go through a series of commands such as turning off random, lowering volume to -30dB, turning off loudness, etc etc. _________________________ Brad B.
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#232490 - 09/09/2004 17:16 Re: Little late request for v3a8... [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
genixia Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/02/2002 Posts: 3411	I'm thinking that a temporay hijack fix should be possible - a menu option to enforce muting whilst the eq is applied. (I think that it has to be able to be switched off for manual eq tweaking.) _________________________ Mk2a 60GB Blue. Serial 030102962 sig.mp3: File Format not Valid.
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#232491 - 14/09/2004 17:18 Re: Little late request for v3a8... [Re: serrano1]
jbrinkerhoff member Registered: 02/04/2002 Posts: 148	I realize Im coming into this a bit late, but if perchance someone would share a8 with me, I would be most grateful. Standard disclaimers - I know it can screw me up, and I know not to redistribute it to other than "friends". Someone (nameless) was kind enough to share the earlier alphas with me and I was responsible with those too :-) Mainly I want to try auto-eq, as manually fiddling with the EQ is an excersize in lengthy trial and error for me... PM me if you can share. I can provide a private ftp or whatever means necessary... TIA Jeff _________________________ Empeg Mk2a 60G
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#232492 - 14/09/2004 19:54 Re: Little late request for v3a8... [Re: jbrinkerhoff]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3995 Loc: Manchester UK	Have you read this thread? _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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