bobp@petfe.UUCP (Dan Masi) (10/13/85)
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In the latest DAK Industries catalog, there appears an equalizer that
seems to be a fairly good deal. It's a BSR EQ3000; the specifics are:
10 bands/channel, +/-15 dB adjustment
spectrum analyzer w/ pink noise generator and calibrated microphone
DAK claims response is 5 to 100,000 Hz +/- 1dB and SNR of 1 dB.
The price? $149. Doesn't sound too bad to me. Does anybody know
otherwise? Are BSR (i.e. ADC) eq's any good?
Equipment it will be used with includes:
Nikko Beta 40 pre-amp and Alpha 440 power amp
Vector Research VCX-700 tape deck
JBL L-112 speakers
CD player (in the near future-- probably CDP-302)
Any comments would be appreciated.
Dan Masi
...!vax135!petsd!petfe!bobpprg@mgweed.UUCP (Phil Gunsul) (10/17/85)
[<->] I purchased one of the BSR "Smart Sound Detonators" and I am VERY pleased with it. Like one of the other poster said though, I think I will disconnect the light behind the BSR label, it is very bright. Along with all this talk about sub-woofers, DAK offers a very interesting looking sub-woofer manufactured by Cerwin-Vega. The sub-woofer uses the Helmholtz resonator design and is in a cabinet 25 1/2 inches long by 13 1/4 inches high and 16 1/4 inches wide. It requires 15 to 125 watts per channel to drive it. The crossover network combines the two channels into one and passes on all frequencies above 120 Hz to the normal speakers. The cost (retail) for the unit is suppose to be $332.00 but is being sold by DAK for $164.50 plus $14.00 P&H. Has anyone heard one of these?? Phil Gunsul -- AT&T IS -- Montgomery Works
nz@wucs.UUCP (Neal Ziring) (10/18/85)
I got the BSR EQ3000 mail-order from DAK about 4 months ago.
I think it's great, and I use it all the time. At $149, it has probably
given me more sonic improvement per dollar than anything but my turntable.
Go for it! Delivery (of mine) was prompt and undamaged.
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new style: nz@wucs.UUCPkeithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) (10/21/85)
>Along with all this talk about sub-woofers, DAK offers a very >interesting looking sub-woofer manufactured by Cerwin-Vega. >The sub-woofer uses the Helmholtz resonator design and... > "Helmholtz resonator" is the fancy title for "bass reflex" I'd also be interested in having someone who has experience with one of these post their opinion to the net. keith -- Keith Ericson at TekLabs (resident factious factotum) Tektronix, PO 500, MS 58-383 Beaverton OR 97077 (503)627-6042 uucp: [ucbvax|decvax|ihnp4|(and_many_others)]!tektronix!tekgvs!keithe CSnet: keithe@tek ARPAnet: keithe.tek@rand-relay
knf@druxo.UUCP (FricklasK) (10/23/85)
>>Along with all this talk about sub-woofers, DAK offers a very >>interesting looking sub-woofer manufactured by Cerwin-Vega. >>The sub-woofer uses the Helmholtz resonator design and... >> >"Helmholtz resonator" is the fancy title for "bass reflex" > >I'd also be interested in having someone who has experience >with one of these post their opinion to the net. > >keith Okay, I'll admit it, I got one for my wife. In general I have been pretty unimpressed with Cerwin-Vega speakers because of their amazing ability to put large woofers on speakers and still have boomy midbass and NO low bass (<45 Hz or so). However, I built some speakers that measure about 12"x8"x6" for Christmas a couple years ago and they have bass to about 40 Hz, but are down 3dB about 75Hz. Solution: get a cheap sufwoofer from DAK. My impression of this subwoofer are: it really only goes to (as far as I can tell) maybe 35Hz. It is good looking, sounds ok, definitely improved the sound of those little boxes, and is probably worth the money. One thing to note, though- the crossovers included to roll the bass off your satellites is terrible- it seems to be an inexpensive 6dB, probably just a couple of caps. ( I haven't opened it up to find out.) I remedied this by hooking the speakers up as Speaker A on my wife's receiver and the woofie as speaker B, and playing both. So - you get what you pay for, and it seems to be sufficient to increase the low end of a non-tweak system pretty well. '`'` Ken `'`'
sl@isl1.ri.cmu.edu (Simon Lowenfeld) (10/25/85)
>>Along with all this talk about sub-woofers, DAK offers a very >>interesting looking sub-woofer manufactured by Cerwin-Vega. >>The sub-woofer uses the Helmholtz resonator design and... >> >"Helmholtz resonator" is the fancy title for "bass reflex" > >I'd also be interested in having someone who has experience >with one of these post their opinion to the net. > >keith I bought one of those Cerwin-Vega subwoofers from DAK a while back. Since I never had a subwoofer before I built a little switch box so I can switch it in and out. When I first tested it, I couldn't tell the difference, so I wasn't sure if they worked at all or not. Then I listened very closely to my speakers and I could hear the extremely low frequencies dissappear when the subwoofer was switched in. So I am very happy with it, considering that my main purpose to get a subwoofer was to protect the main speakers (in particular from demo cds). As for claims of better mid-range with the sub in, I really couldn't tell. couldn't tell