My humble offerings

[gvimhoof]

I learned my carpentry and painting skills working in theatre. Everything I build looks really good... from 10ft or more away! Oh well. I still have fun!

[gvimhoof]

fe103e OB w/ Alpha 15 in H-Frame

First speakers I built. Design came from Martin King and his work published on http://www.quarter-wave.com I still get goose bumps from these things.

[gvimhoof]

Tabaq

A design I found on another forum. A pair of single driver speakers using Tang Band w3-926sd. I made these as a gift for one of my staff members. I can't say I'll be replacing my OB w/ H-Frames, but for a single 3in driver I have been impressed.

[gvimhoof]

mTan-Ken

Another design I found on another forum. After finishing the TABAQ's, I had another pair of w3-926sd Tang Bands and wanted to try something different. I asked the designer of this speaker if my drivers would work and he said that according to the spec's, it shouldn't be a problem. This pair of speakers were made as a gift for my other staff member. Once again, I'm impressed with what can be accomplished with just one 3in driver in a good design.

[jerryanderson]

Re: mTan-Ken

Another design I found on another forum. After finishing the TABAQ's, I had another pair of w3-926sd Tang Bands and wanted to try something different. I asked the designer of this speaker if my drivers would work and he said that according to the spec's, it shouldn't be a problem. This pair of speakers were made as a gift for my other staff member. Once again, I'm impressed with what can be accomplished with just one 3in driver in a good design.

I'm not a big fan of full range, but I like the look of these black & yellow bumble bee's! VERY COOL

[J.Lee]

Re: My humble offerings

I've had some fun with single drivers. Looks like you've spent some time over at DIY.


Does MLK's OB design sound as good as has been described?

[gvimhoof]

Re: My humble offerings

Thanks for the compliment Jerryanderson. The color schemes are actually school colors. My Prod. Asst. is getting his Master's from UGA so I went with red&black for his TABAQ's and my Stage Manager has his Master's from Iowa, so his mTan-Ken's are yellow&black. I like the Bumble Bee idea. I've got left over yellow and black... hmmm... Maybe a new project with horizontal stripes?

Hello J.Lee. Yep. Got both designs for the 3in drivers from diyaudio. That forum and this one are the two I spend the most time on learning what different people do approaching different (and sometimes the same) ideas.

You can see a full write up of the fe103e over Alpha H-Frame on my thread on diyaudio titled: MJK OB over H-Frame Finished. I use the same name of gvimhoof and the write up was notes from my two staff members. I really L-O-V-E these things, but I built them, so I figured having two pairs of objective ears do the write would be the least biased. I think my final tally was ~$500 for the speakers, but I bought tools and items to go along with it, so that is definitely a guesstimate. I figured it was time I have some tools of my own, so that was part of the justification;).

Thanks for looking!

[jerryanderson]

Re: My humble offerings

Bumble Bee's was off the top. If they sound real good~"Killer Bees":D

[Brewski]

Re: My humble offerings

I really like the looks of the gift speakers, Nicely done.

Take it easy
Jay