on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

[JustinL42]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

Herman,

Just checked one of the spare nd105's I have and the gasket is glued to the woofer frame. The edges near the mounting holesaren't glued well but everything else feels firmly glued. I will get them out somehow though. Just going to take my time and think it through. already tried taking the tweeter out and pushing from behind but couldn't get enough leverage with one finger to make it budge at all. Also tried using some small wedges to slowly pry it up but no dice so far.

cwad,

Thanks. Wish I could say my own place was that nice but somehow I don't love money enough to ever get that much together at one time. My place is a glorified condo/apartment style place with two roomates to split the bills with!

JustinL42

[Chris Roemer]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

Justin...what a perfect home for a set of Neos! Chris...just looking back at the list of builders and noticed I'm no longer on it....u get tired of waiting on me to get these done?? Lol...I will admit, this has been my slowest build thus far..mostly due to circumstances beyond my control (apparently an automotive finish cannot be applied in 2 days..which is frustrating..lol)...anywho..I WILL be hearing these (for the first time) and sharing finished photos next week...god willing. Happy building all! Chris W. :rolleyes:

EDIT: And that is what I get for trying to read this stuff on my little smart phone...see I'm still on the list..didn't scroll down far enough..my bad!

I had to put in all the "interesting" quotes from X. The ntns should begin "snapping" (beyond Xlim) around 103dB with tones in the mid 30's at full power.

Chris

[XtremeRevolution]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

just killin' me.

I'm building stands, don't worry, lol. I just wanted to give him something now since these were his birthday present.

You should have seen the look on his face. Its been a while since he had some speakers and he had a listen to these. He played some of his favorite songs that he's had for many years and said there these played parts of the songs he had never heard before, even when he borrowed my RM40T's for 2 years.

After an hour or two of listening to these in his room, I came back down to listen to my surround theater. I've decided my entire Polk audio system is getting sold. The RM40T's, two pairs of Monitor 40's, and a center CS1, to be replaced by two front MTM's, two rear bookshelf nano neos, and if I'm crazy enough, a 4 driver center channel array to put under or above of my Samsung LCD TV.

Can't thank you enough for designing these.

[cwad8505]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

Justin...what a perfect home for a set of Neos! Chris...just looking back at the list of builders and noticed I'm no longer on it....u get tired of waiting on me to get these done?? Lol...I will admit, this has been my slowest build thus far..mostly due to circumstances beyond my control (apparently an automotive finish cannot be applied in 2 days..which is frustrating..lol)...anywho..I WILL be hearing these (for the first time) and sharing finished photos next week...god willing. Happy building all! Chris W. :rolleyes:

EDIT: And that is what I get for trying to read this stuff on my little smart phone...see I'm still on the list..didn't scroll down far enough..my bad!

[JustinL42]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

Thanks Chris. Gotta start on his project soon. He is a perfectionist beyond belief. Almost nervous to start them. He just got hearing aids recently and it has renewed his interest in sound quality. The day after I took the neos home he told me he was missing them already.

JustinL42

[Chris Roemer]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

I finished the second one last night and had a listen to both. I couldn't believe the sound. These sounded better than the RM40T's I bought a while back, and those have a $1150 MSRP. The staging is excellent, and every detail is perfectly reproduced. Nothing short of spectacular. I kept forgetting that my sub was turned off. I ran a few bass tests tones through these and they can definitely play musically down to 32hz. My wife said these sound like my car in regard to bass output. I seriously had to check my receiver's settings 3 times to make sure my powered sub was off.

The details are very good, the response is very flat with no undesirable peaks, and they sound VERY large. The sound fills the room and with such elegance and accuracy that you really have to hear them to believe it.

My only gripe is that they're not very sensitive by nature so you have to crank up the volume to get them a bit louder, but that doens't bother me as they get PLENTY loud when you push them and have absolutely no distortion at high levels.

I so don't want to give these away. I'd rather scrap my entire Polk Audio Monitor 40 based home theater and use these two instead, but I built them for my father in law so I have to give them to him tonight. Can't wait to see the look on his face.

just killin' me.

[JustinL42]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

ericj,

My dad is in to modern design you might say. All the doors are a commercial style door and there are enough windows in the place to be a paparrazi photographers wet dream if someone famous lived there. We did a good deal of work on the place ourselves during construction, during which my mother had a brain anuerysm, a craniotomy, three brain surgeries, a brain infection, then another brain surgery to clean out the infection. She does 5k runs every weekend now and remembers things better than I do. Mayo Hospital in Jacksonville is unbelievable. Anyway it's a miracle the place got finished at all. will see if I have a finished picture of the outside. Most of my pictures were taken during construction.

If you look at photo number 11 here, that is the house from the front, taken by a better photographer than i'll ever be.

Justin

[XtremeRevolution]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

What are the negatives if I DON'T line the box with foam/padding/carpet pad/carpet/cat hair, etc...

I don't have a single thing around the house to line with and I really want to button the last panels up tonight.

Will this kill performance or affect anything??

I would definitely say wait for everything to get done before you button the last panels up. Find some batting and get that in there first. You will be happy you did that.

[ericJ]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

and a few more.

Just need to line the inside, glue up last panel, then finish.

Both have been tested.

Next will be filling outside of cab with some water putty, sanding and prepping for veneer and paint.

[ericJ]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

A few more..

[ericJ]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

A few pics...

[Chris Roemer]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

I'm going to have to adjust the height of the mtm to fit where the nano neos sit in these pictures and increase the depth to make up for it... as long as volume stays the same it should be fine right?





This shows the ceiling height and the amount of hard surfaces/glass for sound to bounce off of in his living room. Any ideas for sound treatment in the room?

You'll do fine. Use the full height, try to hold the width, and if the rear gets close to the back of the shelf, run the port out the front, but you'll HAVE to radius the opening then.

If I'm seeing Afrikan art, seems like X's cabs would fit right in there. That's what they reminded me of.

Chris

[Herman Trivilino]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

I finished the second one last night and had a listen to both. I couldn't believe the sound. These sounded better than the RM40T's I bought a while back, and those have a $1150 MSRP. The staging is excellent, and every detail is perfectly reproduced. Nothing short of spectacular.

Yer makin' me anxious to get mine finished. I had a little mishap with the paint on the back of the cabinets. Tried to repair but wasn't happy with the efforts, so last night I sanded the backs and applied some filler to the damaged area. Today I applied two coats of primer. Will spray them tomorrow.

Then comes the fun part. Installing the drivers, circuit boards, and terminals. I hate waiting for paint to dry!

[Herman Trivilino]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

I put the drivers in a little too soon and the gasket on the woofers has sealed to the paint and I haven't yet gotten the courage to pop them out. I'm afraid I'll screw up the paint.

The gasket is stuck to the paint, but the drivers shouldn't be stuck to the gasket!

Carefully cut the paint around the edges with a sharp utility knife, that way when you pull the drivers they won't peel the paint off of the cabinets.

[Herman Trivilino]

Re: on Sale - $55/pr (drivers & XO)

What are the negatives if I DON'T line the box with foam/padding/carpet pad/carpet/cat hair, etc...

They won't sound right, at all. It would be a big mistake to skip this step.