Dear Troels,
After two years of visiting your website, reading, considering every
aspect, I finally finished my Scan Speak 3W Classic. It has been a lot
of workshop hours, but I finished in record time (about 10 days). I
finally went for the HDF wood, as the baltic birch here (Murcia, south
of Spain) is fairly expensive and not so easy to find. I had a friend
ready to provide for it, but it was not baltic birch, not heavy and
dense anyway. So HDF seemed to be just fine. It was only 10mm thick, so
I glued 2 boards together to get 20mm. I did not buy audio grade bitumen
pads, as they are awfully expensive. Instead I went for bitumen for
acoustic isolation by Chova (chovacustics). Heavy, dense and looked very
similar to the audio ones. The difference is that I only expended 4€
instead of 100€. Everything has been built according to your plans. I
used the middle resistance for tweeter attenuation instead of the higher
value though. The veneer used is Black Limba from
www.designholz.com. The front
panel is sprayed with black matt paint, and that looks really
impressive.
My setup is very modest and, as we will be moving soon, I cannot place
the speakers really well, so stands and proper placement must wait. My
equipment is modest too: Raspberry pi with Kali Reclocker and Mamboberry
LS DAC HAT, into a Marantz 6010. This amp will be replaced by a Nelson
Pass F6 soon, hopefully.
Regarding sound: I experience a huge difference between good audio files
and good recordings against poor files or poorly recorded albums. They
deliver very good detail, fantastic integrations of drivers, and a lot
of power and volume without getting tiring. That is what I can say so
far.
And finally, I want to thank you for your patience, for answering so
many doubts almost instantly, for your work and your amazing designs.
Thank you so much for your contribution to the DIY audio community. My
sincere respects.
David
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