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Allen Wilson of the Buffalo News wonders if what happened in Dallas will stay in Dallas for Bills WR Terrell Owens.
The Dolphins' need for a cornerback got more pressing when Owens moved into the AFC East.
Former Patriots WR Troy Brown is enjoying his retirement.
William Rhoden of the New York Times thinks Jets fans should be seething because of their team's refusal to pursue Owens. [Editor's note: We didn't know T.O. could play quarterback.]
Said Ravens C Matt Birk of leaving the Vikings, "I think sometimes it's good to leave the familiar comfort zone and do things that scare you a little bit."
The Bengals have expressed an interest in South Carolina TE Jared Cook.
Browns TE Robert Royal's agent said that his client is going to be the starter, regardless of how TE Steve Heiden recovers from knee surgery.
Former Steelers RB Amos Zereoue is serving up African/French cuisine as the owner of his namesake restaurant in midtown Manhattan.
Kirk Bohls of the Austin-American Statesman reports that the Texans are very high on Texas CB Ryan Palmer.
Colts special teams coach Ray Rychleski and head coach Jim Caldwell became friends over pizza dinners while both coached at Penn State.
Jaguars assistant coach Mike Tice helped out at a food demonstration by TV chef Bobby Flay.
The Titans are looking for bargains among the remaining crop of free agents.
Said Broncos S Renaldo Hill of why coach Josh McDaniels wanted to sign him as a free agent, "I guess that was one of the biggest things — who gave him a tough time to plan against."
Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star writes that it is OK to question Chiefs G.M. Scott Pioli.
Jerry McDonald of the Contra Costa Times applauds the Raiders for not rushing into a deal with free agent T Khalif Barnes.
Said Chargers G.M. A.J. Smith, "I'm not very pleased with my own contributions over the last two years."
Said Cowboys WR Miles Austin of WR Terrell Owens' departure, "Obviously, it's an opportunity, and I'm excited for the challenge. It gives me a shot now to get more time and also show the coaches what I can do."
Giants LB Danny Clark is keeping a blog on the NFL-USO Tour.
Eagles LB Stewart Bradley believes he's ready to step up and become a leader of the defense this season.
Free-agent DE Renaldo Wynn may be making his way back to the Redskins.
Brad Biggs of the Chicago Sun-Times takes a look at how the Bears stack up at the key positions of the Tampa Two defense.
Although he's visiting other teams, the Lions are still in contact with free agent TE L.J. Smith.
Former Packers DT Dave Pureifory, who also filled in as kicker for two games in 1975, died at the age of 59.
The Vikings interest in re-signing S Darren Sharper hasn't grown even though he's still available.
Falcons FB Jason Snelling enjoys showing kids that being epileptic doesn't mean you can't achieve anything you want.
Every player who started more than half the Panthers' games in 2008 is under contract or franchised.
Free agent DT Shaun Cody will visit with the Saints on Monday.
TE Kellen Winslow called his trade to the Buccaneers "a blessing."
CB Bryant McFadden signed with the Cardinals for two years and $10 million, but Drew Rosenhaus, his agent, said "I really think he's an $8 million a year player."
Rams RB Kenneth Darby on his trip from the Falcons practice squad to having a two-year deal, "God blessed me to have that opportunity with the St. Louis Rams. They like what they've seen and like what I brought to the table."
Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee is surprised the 49ers haven't pursued an offensive tackle in free agency.
Said Seahawks president Tim Ruskell, "We're pleased with the way things have fallen so far. Now, we'll just see what happens next."
Allen Wilson of the Buffalo News wonders if what happened in Dallas will stay in Dallas for Bills WR Terrell Owens.
kellyb9 says: Mar 9, 2009 11:14 AM
"William Rhoden of the New York Times thinks Jets fans should be seething because of their team's refusal to pursue Owens. [Editor's note: We didn't know T.O. could play quarterback.]"Well, William Rhoden is clearly a moron. The biggest question mark on that team is who will be under center at the start of the season. Why would they bring in a "me, me, me" receiver. Idiot.
xskippzx says: Mar 9, 2009 11:45 AM
"Browns TE Robert Royal's agent said that his client is going to be the starter, regardless of how TE Steve Heiden recovers from knee surgery."
Another Cleveland regime on the in-and-out 4 year plan. Next?
Kevin from Philly says: Mar 9, 2009 11:46 AM
"Jaguars assistant coach Mike Tice helped out at a food demonstration by TV chef Bobby Flay."
Well, I could have guessed that they were equally qualified to coach in the NFL – but would you want to be in the kitchen when Meathead picks up a sharp knife?
Ralph GreNader says: Mar 9, 2009 11:58 AM
Oh ok… So Robert Royal's agent says hes gonna be the starter…Good. Theres just two things though
1.)Does Robert Royal know hes…ROBERT ROYAL?
2.)My attorney said Im gonna start at QB for the Browns so….If i could just get my paycheck that would be great.
kardiac says: Mar 9, 2009 12:00 PM
TE Kellen Winslow called his trade to the Buccaneers "a blessing."
The feeling will not be mutual in Tampa.
bcboncs says: Mar 9, 2009 12:14 PM
Not too sure I agree with that statement… it's the agent that is talking him up. The agent has no relevance to who starts and who is number 2. For all we know we are running two TE sets with Daboll next season.
Heiden is a beast though, expect him to be back and be the starter because he is a true dawg.
Packers Fan 090 says: Mar 9, 2009 12:54 PM
Come on Florio, there must be something going on in Packer land. The only thing you can find is DT Dave Pureifory passed away?
BeReal says: Mar 9, 2009 1:06 PM
Jason Whitlock is a bad journalist hiding behind ideals. He is correct that it is there job to question Pioli. However, it is not Pioli's job to give him that information. Pioli's job is to put a winning football team on the field. Jason – you'll just have to work harder to get the information you so badly desire.
moonbeam says: Mar 9, 2009 2:27 PM
i can't wait to see the new york times go under so william rhoden will be out of work.what a total moron.


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1992 Peugeot 205 GTi For Sale In Canada [Retro Resale]
Writing about cars all the time can do some funky things to your taste in wheels, invariably automotive journalists flock to the best of the best. The funny part is that those parameters get warped pretty easily, leaving one writers idea of an ideal car miles away from another.
The same thing goes for enthusiasts, which is why there's a little storm brewing right now on VWVortex, an enthusiast forum for all things Volkswagen. Interestingly enough, that tempest isn't about a Volkswagen at all, it's a 1992 Peugeot 205 GTi. It's OK if you're not sure what that is, they aren't legal in the U.S. and can rarely be found as an import in the wintry Canadian north.
That being said, a member on VWVortex posted a link to someone selling one in Ontario, Canada asking if the seven grand asking price was reasonable marked down from a previous $8000.
Here's the skinny on these cars: they look an awful lot like the VW GTI, in fact you might not know the difference if one went speeding by, but they can be crazy fun on the road. They have super-nimble handling that lets you toss them into corners like Dan Marino throwing touchdown passes, it's tight.
They get a 5-speed manual with a 1.9-liter inline four under the hood, good for 120 horses. Sure, you're not going to show up any Mustangs or Camaros, but damn it if they aren't a hoot to drive.
Upkeep is their biggest enemy and it's pretty close to impossible in North America for a couple reasons. First, they were never sold here, so you're in for a tough time finding parts. Second, these things are sure to break. The 205 was Peugeot's first small car. They built them for 15 years with the last unit rolling off the line in 1998.
The early models came with the same engine as the Peugeot 104, but later models got either the XU and TU-series engines— which as one forum member eloquently wrote, are "crap."
Realistically, a 205 GTi is more of a collector's piece than anything considering their poor reliability and scarcity. You're not going to find too many girls swooning over them, but they have a well-deserved place in car culture for those who appreciate them.
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The Himalayas is an Asian mountain range that separates the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. Many famous mountains are located here, including the K2, Mount Everest and Mount Kailash. The Annapurna Circuit is equally impressive and popular. If you are not a mountaineer but want to watch the Himalayas from a birds view, you might catch one of the planes who leave Kathmandu airport in the early morning for sightseeing flights. The flight usually takes one hour and is offered by several airlines.
The Himalayas are located in six countries: Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan and China (Tibetan Autonomous Region).
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The highest mountain of all, the Mount Everest or Chomolungma in the local language, is on every climber's list to do. But this mountain is not without risks and many people die when climbing or descending (!) the mountain. About 2500 people have reached the top and over 200 deaths have been recorded. The mountain is part of the highest mountain range in the world, the Himalayas.
It is internationally recognized that the mountain was first climbed and successfully descended by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953, although controversy still exists about the question whether George Mallory and/or Andrew Irvine had climbed the mountain 29 years earlier! Unfortunately, neither of them survived their early expedition. More recently, questions about the commercialization have come up as more and more climbers make the climb. Even a double-amputee (Mark Inglis) and a helicopter have made it to the top during the last year, although both did so with risk.
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Mount Kailash is one of the holiest mountains in the world! Since it is a holy mountain for Buddhist, Hindu, Jainist and Bon traditions, thousands of pilgrims make the journey every year to this remote mountain on the edge of the world. The Hindus consider Mount Kailash to be the home of Lord Shiva, a principle Hindu deity. These pilgrims come to do a kora, spiritual walk, around the mountain. It is believe that one kora around the mountain will wash away a lifetime of sins. It can take several days to complete the kora around Mount Kailash, and some pilgrims complete it multiple times.
The other amazing fact about this mountain is the number of rivers that start from it. The Indus, Sutlej and Brahmaputra rivers find their sources from the different sides of this mountain. Many of the other rivers coming from this mountain feed into the Mekong, Ganges and Yellow rivers. Getting to Mount Kailash is very difficult and expensive, as it requires arranging a tour from Lhasa with a Land Rover. The standard tour, including transportation time and a kora around the mountain, takes 10 days. Some tours include visiting ancient cities beyond Mount Kailash, but this adds about 5 more days.
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This hike is one of the most impressive ones anywhere in the world but come prepared with a very good physical conditions as this hike is not for the faint of heart, taking 17 to 21 days! It is definately one of the best treks in Nepal, though road construction is threatening its reputation and its future as a classic trek. The scenery still is outstanding though the trek takes you through distinct sceneries of rivers, mountains, and flora and fauna. The trek goes counter-clockwise and reaches its summit in Thorung La (pass) at an elevation of 5416 metres above sea level. Altitude sickness is one of the biggest risks but because of the slow ascent it shouldn't be that much of a problem for most travellers.
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I sometimes get my hair flat-ironed if I'm coming out of a salon (not anymore, since I found a DevaCurl salon in San Francisco--yay!), but I often find that after about 30 minutes or so, the novelty wears out and my hair just looks...well, boring. When I first got my hair flat-ironed, I was excited, but that quickly dissipated. I missed my bounce, and the fact that at least once a day, someone compliments me on my unique tresses. I usually just feel like another straight-haired chick and kinda limp and straggly. I also get flyaways eventually, no matter what they put in.
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The company joins a slew of other Canadian oil and gas producers, including Suncor Energy and Cenovus Energy , that have cut back spending as benchmark crude prices more than halved since June.
Encana said it will spend between $2 billion and $2.2 billion in 2015, down from the original budget of $2.8 billion announced in December.
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SEMINOLE — In her most dominating performance of the season, St. Petersburg's Shane Crutchfield reminded the other nine golfers Monday what she could do to a field, a golf course and a tournament when she is on her game.
Crutchfield, the defending two-time Class 2A, District 13 champion, dismantled the field, making herself feel right at home at Seminole Lakes Country Club by shooting a season-best 71.
It was her best showing at a district tournament. She finished with 84 two years ago and 74 last year.
But Crutchfield thought she could have played better.
"I feel like I could have shot 68," she said. "I missed two putts within 6 feet."
Still, Crutchfield established herself as the dominant golfer with almost every shot. Her round tied the best among the boys and was 12 strokes better than her closest girls competitor, Osceola's Alexandra Franceze.
On the 16th hole, Crutchfield nearly had a hole-in-one. Her drive bounced twice before hitting the pin, then the cup, then bouncing out 3 inches away.
"I was in a sand trap and couldn't really see the shot, but I thought I had it when I heard it hit the pin," Crutchfield said.
Now, Crutchfield will focus on the region tournament, which she won last year with 72.
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Crutchfield's blistering score helped the Green Devils total 446 to win the team title. The Warriors, the only other team in the district to field a full squad, also advanced to regionals with a 455.
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Both a haunting love story and an account of life in modern Korea, The Ancient Garden is about past and present; about loss, regret and looking to the future; and about how some things are simply meant to be, even when – tragically – events prove otherwise.
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Where Umbrellas Dare Not Go :: Flying Silks
Do you ever need something larger than an umbrella or softbox? Not quite sure if you are wanting to deal with a massive Octabank? Try a 12×12′ silk! Tie it up to some stands like these Matthews Tall Boys and presto! Gorgeous light.
Did you click on the links? Expensive aren't they? Not to rent!
PITA to carry around, set up, and use? Absolutely. Worth the pain in the ass it is to carry around, set up, and use? Absolutely. Want to do it on your own? Absolutely not. Bring a friend or two.
Silk's are great because they cut ambient light, you can blow flash into them, you can use them as background material, they look cool blowing around in videos, etc, etc, etc. Octa's are cool because you can blow flash into them. (crickets) No etc, etc, etc. after talking about big octa's. Don't get me wrong, octabanks are amazing light modifiers. LOVE them! But if you need something that is just as much a pain in the a$$ to set up, sand bag, and move around as a large octa is, then consider using a silk. I prefer the 12×12′ as it is really versatile at that size. I think we are paying about $25 a day to rent two silks. That's an affordable solution to a modifier that can do a number of things.
I can't show the goods from today's shoot but here is one that I really like from today showing the silk flying in the air like it just don't care.
Cheers, Zack
And yes, I know the light from a silk is different than an octa. Each has their place in a photographer's tool kit but… You can't beat a silk for the versatility you get out of it.
So, what are you lighting the silk with? Do you have to bounce the light first so it fills more of the silk or are you using a bare light right into the sheet? Zack, you teased me with that gorgeous light mod then left the party early….! 😉
The Mathews artificial silk is about $125 from B&H. The stands look a lot smaller on the B&H site.
There is a certain photographer who claims that "borrowed" motel bed sheets work just as well. He also owns a 12′ silk.
The one nice thing about using panels is you can change the size of your light source without changing its fall off. Bring your light close and you get hard light, back it up and you get soft light, and your fall off is the same. Inverse square law from the panel surface. The light equivalent of Depth of field.
I love a silk, you can use it in so many ways. Backlit like you have there, use it as an improvised diffuser, bounce material, clothing, sunscreen, etc.
Every tool (including umbrellas 😉 have their place in your toolbox, but a sheet of silk cost very little (if you are lucky) and takes almost no space.
And Darrell, you can do all of the above really. You can shoot straight through it (i tend to use two flashes behind it with wide reflectors to spread the light as even as possible). You could also use it as a standard white background and light it from the side.
Oh. a quick tip to get your own silk.
I found a material at a local textile supplier that is used for the inner curtains on showerdrapes. This was basically the perfect diffuser fabric, thin, pure white and extremely cheap. Cost me about $1 / feet of fabric. It was only about 5 feet wide though but still, its cheap 😀 So go have a look at the textile suppliers and see what they have. It may be a lot cheaper than renting it.
And here is an example of a picture taken with that silk:
(Zach: hope its ok to link that, if not just remove it)
This has DIY written all over it!
yeah really, how do you light up a 12′ silk evenly? I'd bounce either a flash or continous light source off a wall, then have it come back and light the silk? I dunno man, i'm just bumping my gums.
Hi Henrik!
Could you give us more details about where to buy that fabric?? Maybe a website? Thanks!
My guess, one light really far back and full power…or two lights (one high and one low centered.)
That sounds like a really versatile addition to every photographer's camera bag, I'm suprised that I've not tried this yet, time to get motivated and go make some photographs.
love the hidden logo!
Nice post Zack and the location looks awesome!
I have two piece of 3 yards each sports nylon that I bought from Jo-ann's. Cheap and it works very well as a photographic silk. I just clamp it to stands and if it's windy you can leave one side unclamped on the bottom so it won't catch in the wind.
Nice shots. I kinda figured that when I saw that silk, something of epic proportions was about to be released. The lower photo is awesome. Great location too.
I'll help schlep gear around if you need me! Give me a call!
Ahah, just found your watermark 😉
I cannot wait to see what you shot. This shoot looks like all kinds of cool… I imagine plenty of movement and drama. Thanks Zack. Rock!
Noah, it was from a textile supplier here in Sweden who had gotten a huge shipment. He buys & sells fabric shipments that the original buyer for some reason doesnt want anymore so its not always sure he has it in stock.
But the fabric is a synthetic silk fabric so it should be possible to locate at a well stocked textile supplier. My suggestion would be to bring a softbox to a textile supplier and ask if they can help you locate this style of fabric. The things you need to look for is how much light is being let through and also that there is no colouring of the light.
For the Swedes here it can be bought from http://www.skroten.se/ (site is in swedish, sorry ;D.
And it really is a great tool to bring along. =) maybe not the 12×12 size but smaller versions for sure.
The second image rocks. Fantastic. And thanks for sharing lighting details.
It is a cheaper more versatile option to the giant octabank – but the light from the octabank is so gorgeous. Would love to see a side by side comparison of light quality.
Zack, you're the man. I rent gear all the time, I didn't even think to rent silks! Duh!
Why didn't you rent a frame for the silk ? Makes it much more versatile. The ability to raise and tilt the silk gives you more options for getting the look you want. And it makes it easy to move.
For bouncing, putting a 12×12 griff behind a 12×12 silk gives a nice soft light.
CD- The frame put us over our rental budget and I knew I really didn't need it for this job. Had I been flying it outdoors then I would have really needed the frame. I also wanted the ability to throw it up quickly and bring it down quickly. Tying it to two stands does the job and saves a bit of cash for this particular job.
Nice ! Very 'Dean Collins'….
the silk just adds so much density and at the same time grandiosely graciousness
Amazing photo
Can't say enough about using silks. They do have a time and a place, but I'd take them over an octa when I want an ultra soft light. Found a great material supplier here (Ireland) that gives huge seamless synthetic at great price, so not gonna pass up the opportunity!
Used a silk hanging from a lastolite backdrop frame last week, and worked a treat! http://jassfoley.com/mill/
When I was a young camera assistant I worked mostly on television commercials that we shot on 35mm film.
We were called to shoot a spot with Will Rogers Jr. sitting under an apple tree talking about apples. The director/ cameraman that I worked for, sent me to a local sailboat sail making shop and I had them make a 30'x40′ diffusion out of spinnaker material with grommets all around the outside. Then he got hold of some weather ballons and we raised it up in the air over the tree and anchored the corners to the ground by driving in old Ford axles. There was no wind, it gave the most beautiful light and in the end looked easy. Later when I became a director of photography I often used that same diffuser, once covering the gas pumps of a station in Californina and we tied it and another off to semi trailors set to block the wind behind the camera. It was pretty neat.
I want one of those contraptions. Silk? How can I buy one?


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There is a solution and it came in an email that Best Buy has been sending out. The Big Box retailer will have the Amazon Kindle Fire in stock on Tuesday for the same $199.99 it is being offered for on Amazon. Most of the content for the tablet will be offered for sale by Amazon along with cloud-based storage, but there is no requirement that you have to buy the hardware from Amazon.
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That's where McGehee essentially wound up last season in Milwaukee, where he batted .223 and lost his spot in the heart of the Brewers' formidable order. After the season, Milwaukee dealt McGehee to the Pirates for reliever Jose Veras in what essentially was an exchange of unwanted arbitration contracts.
McGehee sounds excited about the chance to make a difference, for himself and the team.
"I was excited to get a new start, no matter where it was," McGehee said. "The more I thought about Pittsburgh, once I realized this was where I was coming, I got more excited each day.
"I don't know what the season's got in store for me, but I want to get out there every day and do my part. I feel like I can help this team take the next step."
To do that, he'll first need a little good fortune.
McGehee's batting average on balls in play dropped by a remarkable 57 points last season, a strong sign that he was still hitting well enough but right at gloves.
And it didn't help that, later in the season when he was desperate for answers, he altered some mechanics and became a mess.
"I had some bad luck and got frustrated with it," McGehee said. "So I started trying to change things."
His biggest change this offseason was losing 25 pounds. That was aimed primarily at lessening the pressure on his surgically repaired right knee.
If all plays out as the Pirates hope, all three of the above players will hit well. In that event, Alvarez would play every day at third, while McGehee and the left-handed batting Jones would platoon at first.
--RHP A.J. Burnett joined his new Pittsburgh teammates in Bradenton, Fla., and immediately made clear he hopes to fit in, no matter his stature, no matter the $33 million he will be paid the next two seasons. "I'll take the ball every five days," Burnett said. "I'm not going to make excuses. One thing I can take from my time in New York is I'll never back down from anything. I'm not a cheerleader, shaking pom-poms. But I know right and wrong and, hopefully, I can share that with the younger players."
--SS Gustavo Nunez was placed on the 60-day disabled list because of an injured right ankle, clearing space on the 40-man roster for Burnett. Nunez was the Pirates' Rule 5 draft pick in December.
--RHP Charlie Morton, who is expected to miss the start of the season because of hip surgery, has his early spring throwing schedule set a week behind the rest of the rotation, but he has been pain-free. "Every side session has gotten better," Morton said. "I feel good. My arm strength is where it should be at this point."
--C Rod Barajas and C Michael McKenry, expected to be the Pirates' tandem behind the plate, have shown a good rapport in the early stages of spring training. However, it's the 13-year veteran Barajas asking most of the questions of his second-year partner. The reason: Barajas is new to the pitching staff. "Just because Mac's a younger guy in the league doesn't mean he doesn't have information," Barajas said. "He's going to be a huge asset for me."
--1B Matt Hague, one of the Pirates' top hitting prospects at the upper levels of the minors, has gotten time at third base in the early stages of spring training. The team sees him as a bench type in the future, so it wants to expand his versatility. He won't make the team out of spring training, but he's close.
BY THE NUMBERS: 34 -- A.J. Burnett's number since high school in Arkansas, one he will keep with the Pirates after getting it from fellow right-hander Daniel McCutchen.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "My actions that evening were irresponsible and wrong." -- Frank Coonelly, Pirates president, on his Dec. 22 DUI arrest just north of Pittsburgh. He has a hearing in March.


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Border Infrastructure and Technology Modernization Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) increase, during FY2008-FY2012, the number of agents in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the DHS and the number of officers and agricultural specialists in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection of the DHS; and (2) provide such agents, officers, and agricultural specialists new technology training to a level of proficiency acceptable to protect U.S. borders.
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|14th December 2007, 02:30 AM
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four inch woofer enclouser?
Hello, I am building my new center channel speaker using two seven inch woofer and one four inch, maybe two four inch mids and one tweeter. What I am not sure about is should I put the four inch mids in a calculated enclouser or just make sure they are seperated from the six inch woofers. I intend to cross the mids in about 350 or so and rolling them off around 2500-3000 hz. Do you think to get good performance at 350hz that this would require a calculated enclouser? or would that be pointless when only going down to 350hz? Slope is electronic 24db per octave for all drivers.
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Hi Dallaire,
A couple of things to remember. The mid drivers must be acoustically sealed from the woofers otherwise when the woofers pressurize the cabinet, the mid cones will get pushed out.
Secondly, if you're crossing over at 350Hz then the mid cabinet needs to ensure good driver performance to at least 175Hz maybe even 80Hz if you're using a low order XO.
However, a small driver with a low Vas (most are) won't take up too much volume in the cabinet. I heard of people gluing tupperware over the mid to good effect. Personally, I make a wooden box for more stiffness.
One option: design the mid box to give the required mid high-pass crossover response and save some caps/inductors (although the bass power would still be dissipated in the mid driver, limiting headroom.)
|14th December 2007, 10:02 PM
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Hello, Iain thanks for the response. I will be using a dedicated amp for each size of driver with a 24db per octave electronic x-over to seperate all speakers, all Marchand Electronics stuff xm1's to be exact. The drivers finally arived today. So I will start to break them in and begin testing parameters this weekend. I was going to seperate the mids (inside the cab.) using a length of thick cardboard tubing and cut a circle with plunge router for end of mid enclouser. But what I wasn't sure about was if I needed to make the enclouser a specific size so the four inch mids could perform down to 350hz, kind of like you need to make for the six inchers I'm using for the low end part. Also don't know for sure, now that you mention it if I should'nt make the cross point higher on the six to four inch driver, pretty steep slope but not sure. Did not want to cross over in the critical voice range is what I read at Rod Elliots site.. Although six inch woofers do go pretty clean trough to about 1K.
Peerless HDS Nomex 6.5 Two
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|14th December 2007, 10:10 PM
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Have you already bought all the drivers? You don't need 4" mids with 6.5" woofers - you can cross the woofers directly to the tweeters.
But either way it sounds like you're putting a great system together.
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|14th December 2007, 10:20 PM
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If you're in the mood to build test boxes you might want to consider the use of an open back mid. It is isolated from the woofer box but is open at the back. Personally I really like the sound. A mid in it's own enclosure tends to sound boxy to me.
The 6.5" mids here are like that
|14th December 2007, 10:21 PM
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|14th December 2007, 10:30 PM
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On second thought that might not work. The open back "tube" isn't going to be long enough in a 6.5" woofer box to allow for a 350Hz XO. Mine is XO'd at 500hz.
|15th December 2007, 02:12 AM
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I have kicked around every type of driver complement I could come up with that would suit my needs. So I decided on using a three way because I've read if crossed electroniclly and each driver size having its own amp that great things could happen! time will tell, currently I have Diffinetive Tech everything. My mains are D'appolito array's with two 6.5's and one 1 inch tweeter all vifa drivers D.T. has used and I think they are "ho hum". I did bypass the factory passives and they do sound twice as good!!! but it seems I have achieved all the performance these drivers have to offer, mid priced at best, not that price makes a good driver, but it does seem to play a role to some extent.
Anyway, the open back approach may be a bit involved for me, carpentry speaking. So I will just try my best at measuring the mids and try to find a suitable enclouser size and conf. I will test mid enclouser prior to final design, for response I mean, using test mic and R plus D program, after all I think it is as much fun to design and build as it is to listen
Thanks agian,
|16th December 2007, 09:44 PM
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It's been a while since I designed cabs so please, anyone, correct me if I go wrong here.
What I see in the specs is a 4" driver F3 at 100Hz, Qts of 0.54 and a Vas of 3litres.
Cal is right, these are a good candidate for open baffle and you'll get response down to the 100Hz F3 with a Bessel response (i.e. perfect transient response, minimum group delay, nice!) I haven't played with OB (yet) so can't really comment but there is a lot of good feedback on this site.
An enclosure for these would be pretty easy. Even a 3 litre box (pretty small) would only raise the F3 and Qts values a little bit so I think you'll be fine. Worth plugging into some design S/W if you have it. The tube idea is fine - make sure you seal all joints well.
24dB/oct means the driver is out of the picture (<1dB) by an octave below XO so it's all looking very good - like you designed it that way!
afterthought - the 0.5 Qts will roll off very gently and start much higher than the F3 point. You may be better off (in XO performance) by raising the Qts to 0.7 (Butterworth - maximally flat) by using a smaller box and this would get a better XO integration.
|16th December 2007, 11:06 PM
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Iain, you are correct on the IB setup. I did some testing this morning and found the calulated enclouser was nice and flat plus or minus one db, only problem with my tube enclouser was the fact that the low end was not there very well. I removed the "cap" at the end of the tube and the low end just opened up very nice! So my design now has changed to an open back mid enclouser, I am glad for this forum and educated people on the subject, like yourself! I tried to different quarter inch masonite baffles, just a "mock ups" to see edge effects, think I have this worked out now. I tried to place speakers to leave any frequency problems out of there intended frequency range. When you had suggested open baffle, you were, I assume talking about the four inchers only? I have not measured the six and a halfs yet but have test box built and ready.
Thanks again,
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