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Thoughtful and timely as always Nando!!!!!


Ok lets forgo the 400 member mark and on the 425 mark we do a WOPL 1000???????
 
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What?// Does she really think we were talkin about women??????????????????????????????????
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No, I took your advice and buried the needles playing some Annihalator. She looked at my like WTF are you doing and I just kept going higher LOL

I think it's time to put the Watkin's woofers into service in the SM cabs tomorrow. Lee how would you suggest wiring the dual coils since I don't have a dual coil crossover? So I am going through both coils at 8ohms. The twin coils are 2ohm and 4 ohm I believe. How would I jump the terminals and which coil would I go through first?
 
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Thanks Lee. You can set whatever benchmark you want as a time for an Amp Giveaway. A WOPL 1000 is probably deserving of the 500 mark in my opinion.

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Ron, that advice needs to come from a speaker guy. Sutton is pretty familiar with the watkins woofers. He has had some Lambda's that were about the same.
 
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Since the heavy-hitters are showing off tonight, here's Doug's Laart WOPL 1000 going trough the paces while I was borrowing it last year. The hand-held digital camera doesn't do justice to how loud and clean it sounded.

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No, I took your advice and buried the needles playing some Annihalator. She looked at my like WTF are you doing and I just kept going higher LOL

I think it's time to put the Watkin's woofers into service in the SM cabs tomorrow. Lee how would you suggest wiring the dual coils since I don't have a dual coil crossover? So I am going through both coils at 8ohms. The twin coils are 2ohm and 4 ohm I believe. How would I jump the terminals and which coil would I go through first?
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Lived through that just fine eh?? You can't hurt your speaks, got Don's board right?? Bout the most you'll do is take out a few outputs.. Usually the rail fuse goes. You CAN HURT em, but I haven't managed to do that on the speaks, it's always been on the bench...
 
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Lived through that just fine eh?? You can't hurt your speaks, got Don's board right?? Bout the most you'll do is take out a few outputs.. Usually the rail fuse goes. You CAN HURT em, but I haven't managed to do that on the speaks, it's always been on the bench...
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Yep, lived through it fine but the left speaker tweeter protection circuit started to trip so I backed it down. The teenagers came in here and were like WOW, Jake had a big ole grin on his face and his friend was speechless. Makala even had a smile on her face. Probably the closest thing they have had to a concert level situation. My living room is 16 x 24 but filled the entire house

I just checked in on Debbie and she looked at me and asked "if I was done". I told I had some more "testing" to do and she just rolled her eyes LMAO. Really putting the gas to some ZZ Top right now
 
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If they'll tolerate for a little while, don't push it, a little at a time, then in small increments....
 
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Joe has said "Nobody tests amps like you do Lee". But there's a reason, are we braggin aboout continous levels or NOT?? I'm not naive enough to think I'm the only one to max out a 700 occasionally, so they don't leave until they prove they'll live. Cost me a lot of time and money, but the only one I've got back was Gibsonians and that was for a failure of backplane parts I should have replaced but hadn't had to up until then. Never cost him a dime either....

Well, shipping to me was what it cost him....
 
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Yeah, I am done, it's fun for a few minutes but better safe then sorry. Nice to know it's there if needed
 
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Yeah, I am done, it's fun for a few minutes but better safe then sorry. Nice to know it's there if needed
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LOL.. yer getting 8 amper's for rail fuses on this new one too, Ron.... :evil4: Lee and I were debatin - I was thinking that with the backplanes and everything soldered down tight (no sockets with these guys!), maybe you didn't need a DCP. Then we remembered who this WOPL 500 is going to.... :smokin::glasses8:
 
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LOL.. yer getting 8 amper's for rail fuses on this new one too, Ron.... :evil4: Lee and I were debatin - I was thinking that with the backplanes and everything soldered down tight (no sockets with these guys!), maybe you didn't need a DCP. Then we remembered who this WOPL 500 is going to.... :smokin::glasses8:
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Bwahahahahhahahahaaaaa! I will be careful Jer! I am hoping to get the Watkins' squared away tomorrow as one of my projects. I started a thread in the speaker section for some advice on that. They are amp killers supposedly but I think these WOPL's will easily be up to the task
 
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Remember, IF YOU PUSH HARD INTO ANYTHING LESS THAN 8 FORCED AIR COOLING. Heat can and will kill em.
 
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Remember, IF YOU PUSH HARD INTO ANYTHING LESS THAN 8 FORCED AIR COOLING. Heat can and will kill em.
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That's why I want to jump the terminals so they run like a normal woofer. I won't even attempt a 4 ohm load without better cooling. That's also why I asked you about those cooling fan sets ups you make, I would like two of them if possible since both of these are 4 finners
 
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Time is my biggest enemy there. They are extremely easy to build. I've had a partial thread on em. When I get back from Phoenix I'll thread building one...
 
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Original Model 70's. They're great speakers for their size, and I'm using them to fill in for the Klipsch Heresies I recently sold WITHOUT REGRET, either for selling the Klipsches or for having to listen to the Missions. Even so, I have no idea how they would hold up under that kind of wattage...
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My main speakers are Mission M74. They have been hooked up to two different WOPL 700B's and survived.
Now I didn't bury the needles like in Lee's picture, but they lasted awhile before the speaker fuse went away.
 
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My main speakers are Mission M74. They have been hooked up to two different WOPL 700B's and survived.
Now I didn't bury the needles like in Lee's picture, but they lasted awhile before the speaker fuse went away.
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I went and looked those up - if they sound as good as they look, they should sound very good indeed.

The only time I ever "buried" a meter needle was by accident, and the speakers were always a bit raspy after that.
 
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