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Well, I spent another night and morning my attempt at Steve’s BBBs. I am still very much in the honeymoon phase, but I still can’t find music these baffles don’t do well.
Last nights ‘oh shit’ moment was a Deadmou5 came on. Hard hitting bass for sure Typically I am tempted to switch on the subs for EDM type music. But what I heard and felt I was very satisfying. I’ve really only switched the subs on once since having these and messed with the cross-over point a little. I was as high as 83hz, but now I backed it off to around 70hz. Anyway, my current opinion is subs are a nice option to have with these speakers, but certainly not necessary.
The second moment was hearing Riders on the Storm. That Rainstorm was bigger and more present than ever and covered the entire front wall of my listening room. The music was more nestled in the storm, I thought. I also noticed the overdub of Morrison’s voice more than I had in the past. Finally, this morning, Cream, Live at Albert Hall – Stormy Monday. Good live recording but the hit of the tight bass drum was notable. Pop Pop Pop
I did finally find a song that produced an unmusical resonance in the baffles. I got up immediately and started feeling different areas of the baffle (as I am sure you all do). What I can say with more certainty is my baffle with 1” oak is a transducer that you can feel in the listening position. With my face maybe 6-12” from the top portion of the baffle, I could feel the same sound wave coming off of it for sure.
Anyway, the part of the baffle that was producing most of the vibration and unmusical resonance were the sides, to the left and right of the driver, with the most vibration near the edges of the baffle and at the widest point of the baffle. Not the upper part of the baffle as I expected or have felt before with my other OB baffles. Not sure what to make of this except perhaps the shape of the baffle promotes the production of this sound wave??
With that said, I am entertaining the idea that resonance in these baffles, if at the right frequency, lends a more tactile pleasurable listening experience. Maybe that’s a “no duh” kind of statement to you guys who have been at this a while but I’ve not felt this with any of my box speakers or 4 different OB baffles I have built/listened to. I’m not sure how much of this I want to tame. I am going to install the handles later this week and I will see what that does, if anything to improve or take away from the tactile feeling of these speakers.
Oh, and if you see some weird guy with his face near the Big Betsy’s baffles at the fest, that would be me, doing the transducer test.
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