Ellam FLEX 3W, built
by Chris
Copyright 2015 © Troels Gravesen
Hi Troels,
First I want to thank you for the amazing work you have
done. Your speaker building is second to none and I am
grateful you give us access to your work. It gives
people that can't usually afford high-end speakers
access to an exclusive club. Also, all your help along
the way via email during the building process was
amazing.
I have been browsing your site for about 3 years and after
narrowing the speakers I wanted to build down to three I
decided I would start to learn the woodworking skills needed
to build one of your amazing speakers. I quickly discovered
that it wasn't going to be a small undertaking and that I
needed a lot of not just skills but tools to get the job
done. Luckily I found a skilled speaker builder here in the
Pacific Northwest who could get the job done for me. His
name is Jesse and he owns Triticum audio. I was lucky to
find him because his work was amazing and affordable. I know
I'm not the only person looking to build DIY speakers from
your site without all the know how, so if there are more
people like me in the Pacific Northwest looking to get a
cabinet built Triticum audio can be found on Facebook. The
speakers he built for me are amazing and compare to most
high-end speaker companies.
Now that I've mentioned everyone that helped me get these beasts
to my house I can get to the sound. Right off the start the
mid-range and highs were amazing. Full and lush. Instrumental
music is one thing the Flex 3-Way do extremely well, pianos
sound life like and fill a room. The Flex 3-way also make a
sound stage that extends well beyond the speakers borders. I
have demoed the speakers for people that asked where I was
hiding the center channel. The bass at first though was for lack
of a better word lean.I first thought it was because I was
coming from a system with Vienna Acoustics Mozart speakers that
had extremely punchy bass, but after some break in time the bass
tightened up and now its not punchy or relaxed, just there. You
can easily distinguish a bass guitar from a bass drum and if
turned up loud enough they have wall shaking status. Amazing for
an 8" driver. However, they don't go down to 20hz. If you want
that you'll either need a sub or a different speaker with a
larger bass driver.
