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@mike&kev: All 8 woofers seem to have uneven stacks of magnets, But not one magnet would move when twisted pushed or pulled. There is also quite a bit of glue visible on all of the magnet stacks. Can these still be aligned? @mike: Very cool thread. Not sure how I missed that. Wrong search terms I guess. Did you make that tool yourself? Were all of the magnets that you reglued already free to begin with? Do you have a method for breaking them free without destroying the voice coil? @Rich: Those look really interesting but I'm afraid they may be beyond my budget. @all: What's up with the screw on the back of the magnet stack? Is the hole for some kind of puller?

For some reason, I thought it would be a good idea to see if the scraping was on the in stroke or the out stroke of the woofer piston. Being the genius that I am, I loaded up Audio Test Bench and proceeded to send 20 Hz to the woofers. "Boy, isn't this fun, let's do 10 Hz." "Hey 5 Hz looks cool, I can almost tell when they're scraping." "Hmmm, nothing at 1 Hz, let's try 1.5 Hz. Cool, it scrapes on the way out." "Hey, what's that smell? Oh shit! varnish! fuckfuckfuck!" running for the power switch..... So now it's time to let things cool off and perhaps take up nail biting again... And perhaps switch to a smaller fuse. EDIT: Turns out the smell is coming from the other channel, which, thankfully, seems to be firing on all 4 cylinders.

Overheated voice coil? Is there a fix for this? Does the magnet assembly come apart? What's that screw for at the end of the assembly do? Not a huge fan of Orevox's price for these things. $90 last time I checked.

Here it is on the Discover site: http://discover.coverleaf.com/discovermagazine/201106?pg=26#pg26

Thanks for the warm greetings. Sorry to be such a lurker. Everyone here is so knowledgeable, it's hard to have anything useful to post. This ripole thing you're doing is kind of timely because I've been researching OB options to try to supplement the Amazings in the low frequencies. As it is now, I'm driving the voice coils on the woofers to their limits if I dare to move the HPF any lower than about 35 Hz. You're welcome to try the ripoles out on the Sunfire. I've got 3 channels free <grin> Anyway, can't wait to hear those ESLs!

Do you have adapters to go balanced/unbalanced? It looks like the Behringer has no unbalanced input, yet your C-1 is unbalanced. The reason I ask is because there's a guy on Tybee who had 4 Rane AC23B stereo 3-way crossovers for sale a few months ago. I bought one when I decided to biamp my Amazings. He had 3 more and I doubt he sold them to anyone. You could probably get one for $100 and sell the DBX on Ebay. I can PM you his number is you think you could make it work. I know you've got to be anxious to hear those ripoles! You could come directly off the Behringer (balanced) to the AC23B, but you'd have to figure out what to do on the other end to get the 6 output channels to your amplifiers. I don't know if additional adapters would fit into your budget, or even if you'd want to do a 3/way with the ESLs/transmission lines/ripoles. Just thought I'd throw the option into the mix. All of your speaker work is really amazing build quality. I've dreamed of doing DIY ESLs for years, but it just seemed so difficult, especially trying to figure out how to match the fast ESL panels with bass drivers. Your OB choice is certainly the way to go. It's going to sound SO good when you get it all hooked up. I'm glad to see we have another planar fan here in Savannah. It seems like every time you talk to someone around here about audio, inevitably they say the "B" word.