Hello Troels,
Well finally i have finished a pair of Jensen ER loudspeakers, thank you
kindly for your designs/plans and for responding so easily to emails. I
can't imagine how many hours you have put into each project from start
to finish, impressive. Well I have attached some images of my project,
as you can see I went the way of choosing premium crossover components
for this project, I also made the cabinets from some feature plywood,
the bracing is MDF as are the baffles. I was considering lots of
different options as far as cosmetics are concerned but I decided to
embrace the look of the MDF as opposed to painting them. The cabinets
have been finished with a high quality furniture wax which gives them a
mat neutral finish and makes the MDF have a similar colour as the beech
wood veneer of the hifi stand.
As far a sound goes I can say that they do sound big, detailed and very
revealing, going from a small set of good quality bookshelf speakers to
these is quite a jump and even after 3 months of listening to them I am
still getting used to the sound. You are spot on in saying that poor
quality recording/mastering shows and it is a shame that so much good
music is so poorly engineered/mastered BUT when you get a high quality
recording these speakers truely sound wonderful (Herbie Hancock's The
Joni Letters comes to mind).
My primary play back sources are a Lenco turntable with a Jelco 12 inch
arm, ortofon 2m Bronze, bottle head reduction phono stage with gold lion
tubes, iMac feeding a V90dac into a Marantz AV receiver. I am in the
process of looking at a power amplifier for the heavy lifting and I
still need to address some room treatment issues after that I suspect
things will fall into place nicely.
Once again thank you and all the best for future designs,
Alberto
Australia
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