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Hi Nikolai,

Did you really mean that you can only get log posts- if so that is what you wan't. No need to make linear. That would be the wrong thing to do.

You will need a dual 10K log pot for a volume control on your pre amp, if you make one that is.
 
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70W, with loads of output current and little distortion will be loud, loud- did you ask your Dad to strengthen the foundations in your house?
 
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Difficult to say, but cracked PCB trace, inductors are favourite, as are the energy transfer caps. The switching tran can also go, but depends on PSU. SMPSs are quite easy to fault find- there is not much to them and all the designs are similar. Often though, the protection circuitry and EMC cloud the issue though. Many SMPSUs will not be happy off-load.

Another general point is the solder joints. They quite often crystallise and go hi resistance where components get hot, and even when not hot. The new earth- hugging solder is particularly bad in that respect. If you can, just reflow the joints using decent old-time solder. Give the board a good clean with IPA first, both sides so you can see what is going on and also clear away any muck which, on rare occasions, can cause leakage around the high impedance control circuitry. I scrub the boards with IPA and a stiff brush- sometimes my toot- brush which gets me into trouble with the missus.
 
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70W, with loads of output current and little distortion will be loud, loud- did you ask your Dad to strengthen the foundations in your house?
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Not a problem, my foundation was designed can resist a normal earthquake without any damages (the foundation was the part that spend money and time than any other part)
 
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Not a problem, my foundation was designed can resist a normal earthquake without any damages (the foundation was the part that spend money and time than any other part)
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Maybe resist earthquake, but how about Nikolai Petrenko bass sub?
 
Nicolai,

There is much to consider about the subwoofer. Can you post a specification. Particularly the resonant frequency, the frequency response curves, and efficiency, or give a link.

(don't be uptight- I am on your side)

PS: How big can the sub cabinet be that will be suitable for your house?
 
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Your photo has a pot marked "B" so it is a linear pot, not an audio volume control that should be marked "A".
 

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A problem: my hearing too bad I only can hear 20-15700Hz.
I also ask a question: Will magnalium be able to cast heatsink? (or what about magnalium thermal conductivity?) Why I said magnalium, not aluminum? Because I see liquid alum has a high viscosity so it will cause many air bubble or alum won't fill all the mould. Add some magnesium to alum will decrease viscosity of alum. Alloy of alum with magnesi is magnalium. Well?
 
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A problem: my hearing too bad I only can hear 20-15700Hz.
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No problem with your hearing at all. That range is excellent.


Magnalium would be fine for a heat sink, but no casting is required- see my sketch of case. The back panel is about 3mm, or thicker, aluminium sheet and the heat sink fins are about 2mm thick sheet aluminium bent into a U shape and bolted to the back panel with around 3 mm nuts and bolts. Or, for a neater and better job, you can drill and tap the back panel to bolt the heat sink fins directly into the back panel. The latter approach is recommended.
 
no aluminum sheet thicker than 2mm, only soda cans and alum door skeletons, some thick alum pieces but too small. I even thaught to do like you approach before because too easy but I realized that thịk alum sheet not available.
 
My "take" on frequency response.

See this: https://recordingology.com/in-the-studio/distortion/square-wave-calculations/

Everyone talks about hearing to say 15 kHz and voice is in the neighborhood of 4000 Hz. No one really talks about "impact" or "rise time"

A drum or even a piano has to have an "attack time" , Look at post #1125306 here: https://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/1125287/Re:_What_is_"Attack".html

In music, that's what we should care about. A square wave is an infinate combination of odd harmonic sine waves. At 5 harmonics the rise time is starting to look pretty good. I'd love to see those same calculations with rise time computed.

So now, 100 kHz seems very reasonable for audio in the pre-amp stage anyway. A fast rise time amp makes sense to drive the speaker too. I worked on an amp that "choked" when fed a fast rise time signal that the dbx 4bx could produce. It sounded awful.

So, take a cymbal's frequency and multiply it by 5x harmonics. We should really be looking at rise time bandwidth not hearing "bandwidth".

So, you have a :huge" amount of compression and the lack of fast rise time signals in a CD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_analog_and_digital_recording

Basically, so they can play on wimpy stereo. To play the dynamic range you need a higher power amp.

In conclusion, vinyl sounds better played on a capable system.
 
Bad news: I was suggested by my friends that don't buy 10000uf caps because many of them are fake. Real capacitance only 2000-3000uf but look very big because caps have a thick layer of bitumen inside. They said me that I should buy 2200-4700uf caps then connect them in parallel (6800-10000uf caps certain good very expensive about over half of price the subwoofer). Well, a "capacitors bird cage" will appear in my amp.
 
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