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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Wilkinson" data-source="post: 148604" data-attributes="member: 8989">Re: 60 Degree&nbsp; DIY Mid HiMax, your box looks great.. nice first build !&nbsp; This has been my second DIY attempt; first was labhorns back in 2003.&nbsp; They still work really well...I&#039;m sold on DIY and how much you learn.&nbsp; Don&#039;t think I&#039;ve saved a dime, but sure l have learned a lot.FWIW, I&#039;ve noticed as I get better at tuning, using smaart and other tools, the DIY60 gets clearer and clearer throughout the spectrum.&nbsp; It seem very sensitive to subtle IIR eq, more so than I&#039;m used to with self powered boxes. My acid test on tuning is my girlfriends dog, and how often it barks cause it think it hears something real sounding that it can&#039;t place!&nbsp;&nbsp; Dog&#039;s been barking a lot lately <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If you do get into FIR, the minidsp route, using the free rephase software to generate filters, is dang cheap IMO, and the instructions on how to do it on the minidsp site are easy to follow. &nbsp;The only real penalty so far has been fussing with interfacing consumer to pro. Smaart can make the files rephase needs. I&#039;m going through driver by driver tuning right now...need some warm weather to get outside and do the DIY mid section....Also, if I may repeat Marjan&#039;s question... what kind of power were you and Evan putting on your box?&nbsp; And what kind of limiting?&nbsp; Another FWIW, using a PLD 4.5 with two channels paralleled for mid (2250w), and a channnel each for the two coax drivers, I get 130-132 db with blinking ever few seconds on the amps -10db lights on mid, every 5-10 seconds -10db blinking on HF, and almost never on VHF.So there&#039;s clearly more MID room left, which is the constraint.&nbsp; I&#039;m using 60Vrms limiting on MID, and won&#039;t see limiting light up until I can get back outside....had to look up the color of limit lights in the manual to know what to look for hahaGood luck! Mark</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark Wilkinson, post: 148604, member: 8989"] Re: 60 Degree DIY Mid Hi Max, your box looks great.. nice first build ! This has been my second DIY attempt; first was labhorns back in 2003. They still work really well...I'm sold on DIY and how much you learn. Don't think I've saved a dime, but sure l have learned a lot. FWIW, I've noticed as I get better at tuning, using smaart and other tools, the DIY60 gets clearer and clearer throughout the spectrum. It seem very sensitive to subtle IIR eq, more so than I'm used to with self powered boxes. My acid test on tuning is my girlfriends dog, and how often it barks cause it think it hears something real sounding that it can't place! Dog's been barking a lot lately :) If you do get into FIR, the minidsp route, using the free rephase software to generate filters, is dang cheap IMO, and the instructions on how to do it on the minidsp site are easy to follow. The only real penalty so far has been fussing with interfacing consumer to pro. Smaart can make the files rephase needs. I'm going through driver by driver tuning right now...need some warm weather to get outside and do the DIY mid section.... Also, if I may repeat Marjan's question... what kind of power were you and Evan putting on your box? And what kind of limiting? Another FWIW, using a PLD 4.5 with two channels paralleled for mid (2250w), and a channnel each for the two coax drivers, I get 130-132 db with blinking ever few seconds on the amps -10db lights on mid, every 5-10 seconds -10db blinking on HF, and almost never on VHF. So there's clearly more MID room left, which is the constraint. I'm using 60Vrms limiting on MID, and won't see limiting light up until I can get back outside....had to look up the color of limit lights in the manual to know what to look for haha Good luck! Mark [/QUOTE]

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