Pete Schumacher ®
12-28-2010, 10:00 PM
Well, there's a Merry Christmas Dad in here, so I thought Mom deserved a shout out.
I built these over a couple weeks in August to a rough condition and have a thread in the forum on the build. I finished up paint, added the outriggers, the day of the delivery on Christmas Eve.
My mom was blown away when she saw them, having not a clue what that I had built them. I got them installed in her TV room, as the mains for her 5.1 setup. Tried it out with, We Were Soldiers, which just happened to be on at the time. My brother and mom both were in awe at the stark contrast from the "before" setup. Right after that, we tuned to the classical music station on the cable. My mom grinned ear to ear. This is a woman who gets to play a baby grand in the living room whenever she wants. Her smile was worth every minute, gallons of sweat (really hot in August in STL!), and sore muscles.
They weigh in at about 60 pounds, stand about 39" tall, 8" wide and 17.25" deep. Baffle is 1.5" thick, everything else is .75", and heavily braced. I've got about a pound of stuffing in each enclosure split evenly between the mid enclosure and the woofer section, which is tuned to 50Hz. Fleck paint with flat black top layer for front baffle, and brown fleck for the sides, top, and back. Oak quarter rounds for framing the baffle, many coats of tung oil/varnish.
2 Peerless HDS 850439 woofers in parallel for the woofer, crossed at 500Hz, LR2.
1 Peerless HDS 850439 as a mid, crossed 500Hz LR2 and 2500Hz LR4.
SEAS 27TBFC/G crossed 2500Hz LR4.
I promise to get a better picture in their current location, with the new owner.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/pete_schumacher/Speaker%20projects/Peerless%20850439%203-way/painted-1.jpg
I built these over a couple weeks in August to a rough condition and have a thread in the forum on the build. I finished up paint, added the outriggers, the day of the delivery on Christmas Eve.
My mom was blown away when she saw them, having not a clue what that I had built them. I got them installed in her TV room, as the mains for her 5.1 setup. Tried it out with, We Were Soldiers, which just happened to be on at the time. My brother and mom both were in awe at the stark contrast from the "before" setup. Right after that, we tuned to the classical music station on the cable. My mom grinned ear to ear. This is a woman who gets to play a baby grand in the living room whenever she wants. Her smile was worth every minute, gallons of sweat (really hot in August in STL!), and sore muscles.
They weigh in at about 60 pounds, stand about 39" tall, 8" wide and 17.25" deep. Baffle is 1.5" thick, everything else is .75", and heavily braced. I've got about a pound of stuffing in each enclosure split evenly between the mid enclosure and the woofer section, which is tuned to 50Hz. Fleck paint with flat black top layer for front baffle, and brown fleck for the sides, top, and back. Oak quarter rounds for framing the baffle, many coats of tung oil/varnish.
2 Peerless HDS 850439 woofers in parallel for the woofer, crossed at 500Hz, LR2.
1 Peerless HDS 850439 as a mid, crossed 500Hz LR2 and 2500Hz LR4.
SEAS 27TBFC/G crossed 2500Hz LR4.
I promise to get a better picture in their current location, with the new owner.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/pete_schumacher/Speaker%20projects/Peerless%20850439%203-way/painted-1.jpg