Two-Way Version 2 build thread

[AEIOU]

Open cell Egg Crate foam will work much better.

[DeZZar]

How do they sound?

Haha...not sure yet mate! Hopefully as good as they look. Full measurements incoming shortly so I can start reworking the crossover!

[Wolf]

How do they sound?
Wolf

[DeZZar]

Thank you all for your very generous comments. I'm glad so many like the look. I wasn't sure what people would think of it as it's a little unusual.

[Kevin K.]

You Sir are extremely talented. An incredible build and they look fantastic!

[Steve Lee]

Sheer artistry.

[Geoff Millar]

Absolutely stunning, congratulations!

There are $10,000 commercial speakers which don't look as good.

A great build log, too

Geoff

[djg]

One of the nicest DIY projects I've seen.

[ernperkins]

Wow, simply Wow.

[Billet]

Very, very nice!

[DeZZar]

and finally those solid timber side panels. Clear coats, cut and polish all done - time to glue in place.


Drivers only temporarily mounted but here is a sneak peak of the near final product...

[DeZZar]

and then, naturally, we line the compartment with red felt.




...finally the insert panel will actually hold a thick piece of Perspex (the item thats taken forever to get delivered) to provide a see through window into the crossover. The gold terminals will be mounted to the perspex. Just need to cut and place the Perspex this weekend and mount the terminals.

IMO - I think this will look much cooler than just a gloss black lid

[DeZZar]

Time for another update on these. I've been distracted building the little monitors for my neighbor - but had also been waiting a looooong time for a few things to arrive in the post to keep going with this build.

First up, changed direction on the rear terminal treatments for these. Originally I was just going to place a gloss black panel here with some gold terminals mounted but after trying that out I wasn't in love with the look and decided to change direction.

Instead I'm running with a leather wrapped inset panel....


With some nice flush mounted black alen key bolts to hold it in place...

[DeZZar]

That's not been my experience...

Mine either. Current v1 of these running in my system at the moment - you can move 10-15 degrees off center horizontally without any real material degradation to the soundstage and even standing up still results in a strong stereo image - so I'm not too concerned.

I'll be taking all the measurements shortly to work on the crossover and of course off-axis performance is a key consideration - but again - I'd be surprised if 5 degrees up in this configuration is distinguishable from on-axis. If it is, we'll either listen to them on bean bags or add a small stand!

[Wolf]

You certainly can but the sound stage and imaging still suffer.

That's not been my experience. I've done it on 3 builds now, and all 3 did VERY well at both.
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Wolf