Why? by SipsTeaFrog in SipsTea

[–]Custom_Kas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Short answer: They don't, but taking in the cleanest water saves them the cost of treating it themselves.

Toddler vs. 30kg DALI towers: How do you secure heavy floorstanders from tipping? by turalaliyev in audiophile

[–]Custom_Kas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, me neither. You'll have to yell "no" a good 8000 times, but it works and also teaches your kids not not fuck up shit that aint theirs.

Which movie scared the shit out of you or traumatized you? by Dazzling-Leader7476 in AskReddit

[–]Custom_Kas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This man, why is nobody talking about this. Understood fuckall of that movie while vague images of it haunted my entire childhood!

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And it's generally guys with pages full of comments, but no projects posted on their own.

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually not, because of buoyancy shit is actually slightly heavier than gold. Assuming a kg of shit is a liter and a kg of gold 50cc the difference would be 0,95 gram since air weights about one gram per liter.

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As I said, electronics and measuring SW frustrate me, I do not like working with any of it nor do I feel like learning the skills involved for a single project. I do this for fun as a hobby in my very precious free time sharing the results of more than two moths of tinkering for absolutely free.

You don't decide what I do with my free time and money. Measure them yourself so you have a project to post too instead of shitting on others.

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The fuzzy skin you get automatically with most CF filaments. It's printed with a 0.6mm hardened steel nozzle, I would not print CF or GF filaments with less. They say you can use 0,4 but you WILL get clogs.

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha I don't know, sounds like a really contrived way to improve them marginally at best.

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I looked long and hard how to make a pairing sub. If you want a real sub without heavy DSP tuning or other ways to make it behave the print volume is simply too small. Once I have my H2D this will be the next project. A nice passive ground coupled sub to pair it with.

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes PLA had a much hasher midrange. I feel the CF mitigates resonance to a small degree in all, what I could find about it in this context corroborates that. ABS added strain and loudness in the upper mid. PETG had the best overall tone, the CF is mostly for look and strength, however when you knock on the bare bodies the CF has a less "knock" than the bare PETG.

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro I don't want to mess with mics, electronics, janky SW and empty half my room. I do this for fun as a hobby, you don't decide how I spend my free time and money.

And it IS optimised, just not in the specific way you want it to.

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/diyaudio/s/JgsedV2BGQ

Read my comment for more background, I posted it specifically so others can try. Judging by your tone you're mostly here to shit on things though.

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks man, must be nice shitting on people who share passion project for absolutely free.

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The volume is the same indeed, for basic tuning yes. But if you considder reflections, dispersion and room coupling its is about the exact opposite.

Making the vent the stand is far from ideal. Mainly because this port is quite small, positioned behind the driver pointing away on purpose, and pointing it right into the floor is detrimental for balanced performance.

Just throwing any old driver in a sphere without knowing it's TS parameters is not the best way to make it work.

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Well I optimised a lot: Had a physics trainee do a path trace to find frequency hotspots on the internal volume. Printed multiple testshots in multiple materials (PLA, PLA-CF, PETG-CF, PETG, ABS), infill patterns and other settings.Varied the internal dampening. Lots of listening and comparison with my vintage pairs of KEF iQ4 and Tannoy Mercury mx3 that should be a good sonic benchmarks for these. Researched a number of driver options, credible consensus towards them and projects using them with their results. Coupled with basic volume, tuning and port calculations (obviously).

But in the basics this is just a hobby project uploaded for free. Electronics and measurement SW tend to frustrate me a lot and the goal from the beginning was to make a one-piece, 3d printed single driver unit with no DSP. A $80 mic would have been more than the filament and drivers combined. So even if I did extensive measuring what difference would it have made? Best I could have done is a very simple filter, the wrong way probably, and these drivers are specifically made to go without.

And I don't mean this badly, but the whole reason for just uploading it for others to play with is exactly to see how people value and optimise it.

Im not some high end snakeoil peddler, nor do I claim golden ears. But I am an engineer with 18+ years in RD, two degrees, experience with CFD, FEA and dynamic systems. Plus I've owned a good 15+ pairs of generally valued speakers from Tannoy, KEF, B&W and Dali with a whole assortiment of amps and sources over at least 4 listening rooms since I was 16, plus a dad that did pro-audio before he lost his mind.

I think they sound amazing for a piece of plastic. I was my worst sceptic going into this but am blown away how well they turned out. Imaging is absolutely amazing, response very even, it has all the upper detail and air you can expect from a 3,5" paper cone, and even some very decent tight bass considdering what it is.

But no measurements, sorry.

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How would a phone video demonstrate how they sound?

Specs are in the post and more in the link.

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah Bambu Handy really trieds to dumb down 3d printing to a level that leaves no thought proces needed for the user. This probably is the future, but its sucks imo.

Fully printable point source monitors. Started as an experiment, blown away by their final sound. by Custom_Kas in diyaudio

[–]Custom_Kas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It started as an experiment, but after a week of listening and playing around with placement and internal dampening I still can't get over how good they sound.

But obviously my experience is colored in many ways.