Hi Troels,
It has been a long time since my last email, you
probably wondered what has that Aussie
been up to, well I must confess that I have
been very busy with boats and things for the last
months the day I finished the speakers we had a
very large cyclone hit us called LARRY, which did
a large amount of damage to the area 25
kilometers south of us, so have not had much
time for playing with the sound system. I have
finished the loudspeakers, all but for the clip
on grills which I need to manufacture but I am
not rushing into it, I like the drivers expossed
but of course my wife would prefer them
covered, our black labradore also has grown
out of the chewing wire habit, so all is
well .
The speakers are a huge success I have only
driven them from my 40 watt Valve amplifier to
date, using my home made CAT5 cable Speaker
looms, I have had many friends over to listen to
them some of whom have a good musical ear
and they cannot fault them. I have another
friend who happens also to be my local Doctor, he
has spent $$$$$ on sound systems and enclosures
of various manufacture and is also very critical
of any sound system, and he just thinks they are
fantastic and we hadn't had any red wine at that
juncture.
My plan is to try them on 100W/channel solid
state amplifier and check cabinet damping x-overs
etc., but I think they will be OK as they sound
good with 40W. The cabinets are 20mm and
30mm New-Guinea Rosewood, the plinth timber
is of Durian or Jackfruit tree 50 mm
thick I hand finished both timbers with
beeswax, the 30mm front and rear baffles, and
tops I rebated into the cabinet, also the
internal baffles of Pinewood were rebated into
the cabinet side walls. I used a commercial glue
called "Weldbond" to glue cabinets.
All componets were installed using S/S
screws with the plinth using 80mm X 6mm
diam. brass socket head screws and
inserts.
The construction took 250hrs using lots of
clamps etc. All internal wiring was done
using Silver plated OFC. which I decided would be
OK.
I purchased my drivers from Madisound USA and
they did me a very good deal and replaced one
midrange which had an open circuited voice coil
in three days I had a new item on my workbench. I
tried to purchase all drivers direct from
Scanspeak but alas they directed me to my local
suppliers who told me they could not supply those
types of drivers can you believe
that?! They were only interested in
supplying the Scanspeak drivers for
Automobile sound systems bloody! DooF. Doofs.
Thank you very much for your assistance I
much appreciate it and hope you like the
pictures.
Very Best Regards, Kim
- thanks to Kim for the report and
pics. I couldn't be more pleased.
Troels
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