TommyTheCat
Gonzo Scientist
Well, since none of you have probably seen my now dead blog on here: I've finally gotten my speakers done. Its a design thats similar to Adire Audio's Kit61, utilizing Adire's Extremis 7" midwoofer. You can find the project I used here:
Extremis
I guess my buddy put it best, because I've no good speakers to compare these to. He's got a slightly older set of EV three-way towers with a 15" woofer. Now, these are not efficient speakers, but he said he could hear so much more midrange detail. He said he was "delightfully suprised" and they've got just as much bass, if not more low bass (25-35hz material). BTW the enclosure is .8 cuft tuned to 32hz, output is more like a 10" than a 7".
Got the rig together with my buddy, with whom I built two sets of these bad boys.
Had the .75"MDF all cut up and started to glue and screw 'em together.
Took me like 6 hours to build all the crossovers and make sure they'd fit and work the first time.
Making sure everything is good to go before we seal them up, If you can see they've got an inch of sound mat lining the inside. They'll also be stuffed each with about a half a cu. ft. of polyfill. No midrange coming from the box here
Here's the rig set up in my apartment. Onkyo amp (maybe 75W per chan) and Behringer DEQ2496 - full RTA, 30band Graphic EQ and 10band Parametric EQ. Haven't used the EQ much except to tame the room boost in the bass freqs.
These old Bose 501's are now relegated to speaker stand duty.
Here's a close up. Used about two coats of low gloss black paint. Same stuff we used to paint the stage of our highschool theatre.
My full gallery is here: CarStereos.Org / SoundIllusions.Net - CarStereos.Org Photo Gallery - Extremis
Extremis
I guess my buddy put it best, because I've no good speakers to compare these to. He's got a slightly older set of EV three-way towers with a 15" woofer. Now, these are not efficient speakers, but he said he could hear so much more midrange detail. He said he was "delightfully suprised" and they've got just as much bass, if not more low bass (25-35hz material). BTW the enclosure is .8 cuft tuned to 32hz, output is more like a 10" than a 7".
Got the rig together with my buddy, with whom I built two sets of these bad boys.
Had the .75"MDF all cut up and started to glue and screw 'em together.
Took me like 6 hours to build all the crossovers and make sure they'd fit and work the first time.
Making sure everything is good to go before we seal them up, If you can see they've got an inch of sound mat lining the inside. They'll also be stuffed each with about a half a cu. ft. of polyfill. No midrange coming from the box here
Here's the rig set up in my apartment. Onkyo amp (maybe 75W per chan) and Behringer DEQ2496 - full RTA, 30band Graphic EQ and 10band Parametric EQ. Haven't used the EQ much except to tame the room boost in the bass freqs.
These old Bose 501's are now relegated to speaker stand duty.
Here's a close up. Used about two coats of low gloss black paint. Same stuff we used to paint the stage of our highschool theatre.
My full gallery is here: CarStereos.Org / SoundIllusions.Net - CarStereos.Org Photo Gallery - Extremis
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