Hardcore Speaker Porn

[spitfire]

The amount of installed cabling and connections and rack space saved is bonkers though.

I've built auditoriums in the old way and there's so much to go in.

We've just started upgrading some hotels from old school early 2000's gear and it looks so out of date now. Acres of patch bays and thousands of solder joints.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

The amount of installed cabling and connections and rack space saved is bonkers though.

I've built auditoriums in the old way and there's so much to go in.

We've just started upgrading some hotels from old school early 2000's gear and it looks so out of date now. Acres of patch bays and thousands of solder joints.

Yeah. Although we still have something like 40 analogue tie lines from the stage, which all end up in a couple of Rio’s in the control room. And the amount of Cat5 patch is ridiculous

 

[sherriff rosco]

So down here in Melbourne we had another special soundsystem day last Sat . 4 sound systems in Federation Sq, right in the heart of the city for the Afro-Caribbean Carnival. Also guest DJs from Saxon Sound . The weather gods smiled on us and it was a lovely day with some great toons, people & vibes.

 

[RevolutionSound]

Should be picking one of these up soon...

 

[ddraig]

Sain Sound System outta Cymru

They do have bigger set ups too

 

[Silas Loom]

 

[moody]

 

[Crispy]

Acoustic testing for a spacecraft. The speakers can simulate the full acoustic environment experienced during launch. That is approximately YES decibels.

 

[pesh]

Would love to see NASA rock up at Frenchtek with that

 

[Crispy]

You can't tell me they don't "test" the system with a banger or two

 

[Nivag]

You can't tell me they don't "test" the system with a banger or two

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

While we’re talking NASA and sound… This has to be the coolest sound engineering job there is - mixing the audio for astronauts on their spacewalks

Alexandria Perryman - Audio Engineer for the Astronauts - SoundGirls.org

Alexandria Perryman is a live broadcast engineer and Emmy Winner working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where one of her jobs is to run audio for astronauts on the International Space Station.

soundgirls.org

 

[moody]

horns!

 

[moody]

would really like to hear a good pair of horn loaded speakers.

was tempted to get a set of klipsch a few months back but went with some transmission lines in the end.

 

[ddraig]

Dubcentral - Reggae & Sound System Community | Sound Celebration 📷 Little Big Sound, UK | Facebook

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Little Big Sound uk

 

[ddraig]

 

[ska invita]

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beautiful ! apart from the valve amps
love the look of the cabinets though

this is the problem with sounds, the easy bit is building/buying it, the hard bit is storing it and making use of it

 

[danski]

No read yet but thought it might be of interest…

Floating Points' Sunflower Sound System: The Road to Perfection · Feature ⟋ RA

For over a decade, the beloved sound scientist has dreamt of building his own rig. At long last, he's taking the most ornate and least-portable stacks imaginable on tour, expanding in power and presence with each stop.

ra.co

 

[ska invita]

PolyDub Sound System | Linktree

Community | DIY Sound System | Series of events in East London

linktr.ee

lovely curved off edges on this too

 

[ska invita]

both these are for a "permanent" venue install
more big hifi than SS

and

 

[klang]

PolyDub Sound System | Linktree

Community | DIY Sound System | Series of events in East London

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lovely curved off edges on this too

Nice bike!

 

[RevolutionSound]

This is ours.

 

[pesh]

No read yet but thought it might be of interest…

Floating Points' Sunflower Sound System: The Road to Perfection · Feature ⟋ RA

For over a decade, the beloved sound scientist has dreamt of building his own rig. At long last, he's taking the most ornate and least-portable stacks imaginable on tour, expanding in power and presence with each stop.

ra.co

I always wanted one of these
Not that I’ve ever had the subs to do it justice.
Ecler have recently brought out a couple of mixers with them built in which is, errr, brave

 

[klang]

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I always wanted one of these
Not that I’ve ever had the subs to do it justice.
Ecler have recently brought out a couple of mixers with them built in which is, errr, brave

Great that

 

[ska invita]

heres my mates ...dB and yams ...all active... weddings bah mitzvas etc
tumps a bit too much .... hopefully next year begin a regular rinse in a venue with no noise restrictions

 

[gosub]

This is the Mitsubishi Dialtone D160, the largest subwoofer ever built, with 60 inches in the 1980s. Weighing 800kg, it can easily shatter windows and produces small earthquakes that can be felt like ground vibrations within a 2-kilometer range. At the Koriyama factory, the test was conducted at first in the measuring room, but was stopped because the ceiling lamps fell due to vibration. The outdoor test appeared to have a negative impact on the neighborhood. At a distance of about 100 m from the speaker, the sound was felt, but at a greater distance, it was transmitted as vibration and noise on the earth instead of an audible sound. Within a 2-kilometer radius of the factory, damage such as vibrations, small earthquakes, as well as noises from walls and windows occurred.

 

[pesh]

The first time they put a sound system in the new Co-op Arena in Manchester it made a large chunk of the air conditioning system fall out of the roof into the arena.
Tbf, it wasn’t so much to do with the awesomeness of the system, it was because the builders forgot to bolt the AC unit to the ceiling.

https://archive.ph/GtxKN

 

[ruffneck23]

 

[ddraig]

video looked proper too! fair play and more power to em!