My life with an RTA

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05-17-2004, 10:33 AM

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Dereck Waller

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RTA is dumb. IASCA is eliminated it from some classes, I would say instead of paying $3000 for an RTA pay some one experienced with tuning cars instead.

05-17-2004, 11:41 AM

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It just a toy to play with for me. All the big boys say they don't go by what the RTA is. They tune by ear. But when you do want to play, make sure that you've bought all your gear at a shop that has one that you can use for awhile. [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

05-17-2004, 02:36 PM

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DWVW, and BootlegGuy, have you ever played with an RTA with resolution above 1/3 octave?

05-17-2004, 02:40 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by JohnVroom:
I have just purchased L-pads for my tweeters and midrange drivers to work with my modular concept.

I sincerely hope those L-pads are high end using only the best silver wire components and space-age rheostats otherwise your imaging is now gonna suck.

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05-17-2004, 03:19 PM

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Paul Niwranski

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Well at this point I am gonna stick my snoot in the air and say that I prefer to tune by my ears thank you very much

Still, I have the RTA to make sure I don't do anything too dumb [img]tongue.gif[/img]

05-17-2004, 04:12 PM

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As a few of you know, I've been struggling to tame my Focal TN51 tweeter. I've had other tweeters in the car that sound better, but they were HUGE and couldn't be mounted to give better imaging response than the TN51s on the A-pillars. What I've found, is that that TN51 is a really flat tweeter out to 20khz outside of the car. It's flater than many of the "home" tweeters that I've had in the car. It does however, interact horribly with the windshield. I'm sure a few of you experienced "PROS" will understand the peak in the 5khz region. While this can be easily tamed with my EQ, it sounds worse afterwards. In fact, I've found that where-ever I've tried to EQ a problem area, it sounds less life like afterwards. As a result, I'm finding that working on X.O. points and gains are netting me far great results than EQing.

------ have you experimented with a felt ring around the tweeter? We used to use those on home speakers back in the day.... "audio imagers" from Sound Ideas magazine are ok too. Just ideas

05-17-2004, 05:37 PM

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^ Ditto for me though my tweets are nowhere near that quality. Felt is still common for some tweeters in home audio depending on the tweeter and its mounting.

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Originally posted by JohnVroom:
I have just purchased L-pads for my tweeters and midrange drivers to work with my modular concept.
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I sincerely hope those L-pads are high end using only the best silver wire components and space-age rheostats otherwise your imaging is now gonna suck.

Thank you for the thought [img]tongue.gif[/img] but as soon as they come in I will pull my cryogenically frozen Litz wire out and rewire it internally.

05-17-2004, 08:50 PM

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I have used the Audiocontrol a bit and the Linear once. I like them in that you can easily get a quick snapshot of drivers out of phase after an install, but other than that I wouldn't use one.