opinions wanted on subwoofers

[DRN]

I hear ya! A real beatch to carry this stuff around. I'm upstairs.This stuff as I explained to the wifey,
It's set and forget. 
Advil is your friend.

My connections to the driver were pretty lose. Removed by my fingers.

[Nick B]

I hear ya! A real beatch to carry this stuff around. I'm upstairs.This stuff as I explained to the wifey,
It's set and forget. 
Advil is your friend.

My connections to the driver were pretty lose. Removed by my fingers.

Oh yeah....set and forget...gotcha 😵‍💫  The back is feeling a bit better. My connections were gorilla 🦍 tightened

[HAL]

Just for reference, the Rythmik Audio HX300 servo amp has been discontinued.

The HX310 is the replacement being built for production.  No time frame has been posted.

For the 4x8in servo sub towers I took to CAF 2023 with the Magnepan MG10/QR's, it was a pair of original HX300-8OB servo amps I had on loan from Brian.  Now run them with A370XLR3's with the dspNexus 2x8 with some EQ to replicate the HX300-8OB operation. 

[Nick B]

Well, my Rythmik L12 is off to Texas to be repaired. I did my best to disconnect that amp, but the clips are impossible to get off the sub and there's hardly any room to maneuver in the cabinet. So the whole thing needs to go back.

Tweaking my back was a reminder why I don't want to deal with difficult to lift/carry components. Brian at  Rythmik has been on top of things and pleasant to deal with.

The sub was delivered by UPS this afternoon and everything looks to be in excellent condition. Communication with Brian at Rythmik was very good and the repair turnaround was very quick. There was an extra day delay with UPS and I was sent an email regarding that. I did ask Brian what the issue was and 2 electrolytic caps had gone bad and were replaced.

[_Scotty_]

Nick, I'm afraid that kind of failure comes under the "Shit just happens, what the hell."
category. Hopefully no more problems. 👍
Scotty

[Nick B]

Nick, I'm afraid that kind of failure comes under the "Shit just happens, what the hell."
category. Hopefully no more problems. 👍
Scotty

Scotty,

It's all good. Brian took care of it promptly and professionally 👍

Nick

[Nick B]

Why my subwoofer adventure didn't work out for the time being......

To recap, I got a lot of excellent suggestions and ended up buying 2 Rythmik L12 subs. It was very good dealing with Rythmik. But I didn't use them very much. One board gave out AND then I had a tube go out on my Supratek preamp at the same time. Also hurt my back moving one of the subs. Not a good sequence of events 🙄Brian at Rythmik took care of the sub repair promptly and I replaced the faulty tube with a different pair.

But the L12s weren't a good fit either due to space limitations in my dual purpose living room. After I moved my system to face a different wall per the wise suggestions of Dave and Jack, it cramped the space for the subs. They fit on the sides of the speakers fine, but accessing behind them to change cables etc made things much more difficult. I also couldn't move the JM Reynaud speakers out into the living room to make access from the side and back easier. So I decided to sell the Rythmik subs to a guy in so. California. He was quite happy as he'd been looking for a pair of L12s. He also suggested I use Pirate Ship for discounted shipping and that saved me a lot of money.

So I am subless, but that's ok as I am working on getting my system finished and fine tuned. Using a small REL like a T5 is an option, but it would still be a tight fit. So maybe I'll have a different house in the future or even a dedicated room. That would be nice. But for right now, it just didn't work out.....

[ejk]

I forgot about your adventure. The Stark subs look like a scaled down version of REL. Im still thinking the Double Trouble for me but getting confused with emails from Danny and Captainhemo. Seems to be conflicting info on cabinets and who or who not is the seller.