The Boozeblasters

[Dr.Jass]

Heh... just finished up my new speakers for the house in Kingsford, next to the Boozefighters. I've posted before about how my goal is to annoy them with loud music at odd hours, and I've now increased my arsenal. I have dubbed these speakers The Boozeblasters.

The new woofers are an average response of 7.6dB louder than the old at the same input wattage. Keeping in mind that every 3dB increase in volume gain is the equivalent of doubling your amplifier power, I've essentially gone from irritation at 85W/channel to more like 430W per channel.

At their peak dB--there's always going to be a response hump somewhere when you're using a smaller-than-ideal cabinet--they're almost 11dB louder (the equivalent of nearly 625W in volume compared to the old). That peak, by the way, is at 76Hz... right where the bass drum kicks you in the gut. Did I do that intentionally? Why yes, I did.

Oh, and for those of you who think tight, punchy bass isn't available in a ported cabinet, you're wrong. You just have to tune for it. These suckers ain't muddy at all. I can't wait to get them to my house and hook them to a real amp instead of my crappy Aiwa bookshelf system! My buddy wants to take them to the audio shop where he works and compare them to some of the pricier stuff they offer to see where my $150 beauties fall... I'm all for it. I think they'll hold their own.

Anyhow, overall response (volume) should be up even more dB since I've also gone from a 2-way to a 3-way array.

I hope Brucefighter likes Type O Negative. :dance:

Pics to follow later today... repairing some woofer-gasket damage at the moment.

 

[BootHead]

primus "my name is mud" the nails will be popping out of thier roof.

 

[69.5CUDA]

primus...definatly primus......jerry was a race car driver is one hell of a test on any new system

 

[Dr.Jass]

Size matters...

Here's a pic of the Boozeblasters, done except for the grille cloth. In the center is the baffle from the old ones with which I used to annoy them... the old woofers actually pounded quite well--Stretchy can testify to that--much of it owing to the room size. The new ones, well... :dance:

I actually have a test CD I made with a little of everything: metal, classical, pop, dance, industrial, regular old rock... even a rap song (and I don't like rap unless it's Anthrax). Everything but country, since that stuff'll rot your brain. They're not all songs I like, but they give a good indication of how the speakers will perform under wildly-varying demands.

That old baffle in the middle is being used in the garage speakers I'm building for Stretch, into which I've put new tweeters and modified the old crossovers for better sound. I've also ported the old cabinets for a little extra bass efficiency, so they should fill his garage with sound nicely considering their small dimensions. They'd be done already if I could get a day without a breeze, but so it goes that when you live on a Great Lake, still days are rare. Try shooting a decent paint job in a 15MPH crosswind and you'll know from whence I speak. :doh:

 

[BB71Challenger]

LOL cool. I know you can have a ported enclosure and have tight bass. I made my slot ported enclosure for my 12W7 and it is loud and tight. Stevie Wonders song For the City has a prolonged bassline at the start that you might find effective Almost any Sublime will do the trick For the ultimate though get a test tone cd that is intended for SPL competitions, nothing but sick bass, enough to drive a saint to murder, should be just right for your situation :bwuhaha:

 

[71dusterman]

A little Deep Purple Smoke on Water would be nice when cranked up.:dance:

 

[Dr.Jass]

Good God... Metallica's "One" is amazing through these things, and I can't run it much louder than conversation level! God, I miss my home stereo... this Aiwa is really not so good.

Oh, and BB71: "Superstitious" has never sounded so good, speaking of Mr. Wonder. :dance:

 

[mr340]

Let us know when to start listening for the music, I'll probably be able to hear it here in Joisey....:bwuhaha:

 

[BB71Challenger]

Good God... Metallica's "One" is amazing through these things, and I can't run it much louder than conversation level! God, I miss my home stereo... this Aiwa is really not so good.

Oh, and BB71: "Superstitious" has never sounded so good, speaking of Mr. Wonder. :dance:

Yeah ole stevie has some really good songs, makes me want to take my car for a little spin :shifty: I had my eclipse deck(8053) take a dump on me the other day so I had to stick in my backup deck (8051). I actually am digging my old deck while waiting for Eclipse to fix the motorized faceplate on my 8053. I am seriously thinking of doing an Alpine DTS system in my challenger. I heard a system that has my old components Boston Z-6 and an alpine deck and amps along with a JL sub, the DTS 5.1 surround on a DVD boz skaggs concert was phenominal, I cannot get enough of clean, loud music :clap:

 

[a12bee]

If I understand this correctly, you _want_ to annoy a bunch of alcoholic psychopaths who think nothing of dousing themselves and others with gasoline?
Whew, good luck with that. :bwuhaha:

 

[Dr.Jass]

I'm only there a couple days a month... and they never mess with me directly.

Bruce tried once... sorta. Actually, he politely knocked on my door one night after midnight, and asked me in his always-drunken slur to turn the music down. Instead of answering directly, I asked if they could maybe not get in screaming, raging, drunken door-slamming fights every God-forsaken day. He never said a word... just turned around and left.

 

[Dr.Jass]

Well, turns out that after some prolonged low-volume listening, I'm not particularly happy with the mids I chose... plus, I forgot to reverse the phase on 'em. :doh:

I fixed that, but it tore the cabinets up pretty badly since the screw holes are so close to the driver opening... it took a lot of rotate/try again to get reasonably-solid mounting upon first assembly, and that went out the window when I removed the mids to fix the phase issue. So, now the upper- and mid-ranges sound better but I have an air leak negatively affecting the bass. At least it'll keep the woofers from blowing the mids out of their crappy mountings when I throw some real power to 'em this weekend.

So I ordered new, better mids that will fit the cabinets nicely and also be a closer match to the other drivers sound-wise. I'm taking this way too seriously for speakers that will ultimately end up in my garage.