The start:
After searching for a kit to rebuild
my grandfather’s old Seas 94 H kit, i found that 3wc-10 was 40 litres off
total volume, and only a couple of centimetres off the original
measurements.
I figured that this was close enough for my untrained ears.
Before I start, I have to say sorry for breaking every rule of
speaker-kit building, almost every dimension of the original had to
give way to make it work with the old cabinet, and cloth had to be added
to get it accepted in the living room.
All the old stuff were removed and I
started installing new dividers.
Since the cabinet I used was 2 cm more narrow then the original, i had
to make room for the reflex-pipes by moving the bass speaker a bit
upwards, to do that I had to sacrify a couple of millimetres of the
tweeter.
Still, the distances from the tweeter and upwards was true to the
original drawing.
Worked great, and looked great to.
The speaker was now working, good
sound was coming out, and the next step was to make it a bit more
house-friendly, that meant cloth on the front. I made an Aluminium
frame, and cut it to fit the inside.
Glued on some stuff similar to Styrofoam to get some nice angles.
Found some nice cloth.
My measurements were deeply flawed, both because of the room, equipment
and my lack of understanding of SMAART, but I could get a semi-accurate
reading of bass response down to around 40 Hz.
All in all, great kit, great sound.
Just to finish: My dream kit would be a centre speaker , with the same
tweeter and mid configuration, and an 6RS140-8 as the bass element,
sacrificing some low-end, put into a wide and under 15cm deep
wall-hanging enclosure.
Ole, Norway.
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