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...ooooh look!




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Well... who'd have thought it. 8.4uF motor start caps for bass stopping in series with the tweeter and 4.7mH (I think) in series with the wooftah and I must be honest and say they sound half musical :lol: The joy of clip leads... http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z109/davethebass1/CIMG8870.jpg Lost...

pre65 wrote:
Did you listen to them for a "brief" time ?

Perhaps they needed "wings" ?

Arf arf.

Unlike those pant the OB's lack bottom-end

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Okeydokey, I'll hunt around for some scraps of ply in the joiners bin for the new and improved side wings, and I'll have a scrabble around for inductors too, we don't use many here in the 'shop TBH. If we can reduce the shouty-ness I think that may improve them a fair bit, the upper mids have that P...

shane wrote:Here's a joke:

One day, David Beckham, Leona Lewis and Jimmy Paige were riding on a bus in Beijing....

...And David turns to Leona and says "...who the f%$k is Jimmy Paige? He's not the bloke from Led Zep 'cos thats Jimmy Page innit"

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Just listened to most of Al Stewarts Past Present & Future with the speakers like this... http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z109/davethebass1/CIMG8867.jpg ...and played about with them from time to time. Moving back to the corners and into the curtains kills the 'life' of the sound it seems. Br...

Ok, I'm gonna move the Fonken and sandystand on the right hand side of the room to get the OB into a position where the rear wall and curtain come into play and I'll shift the rocking chair and Mr Bloo-snake out just for a test.

Back in a while...

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You now need to start experimenting with positioning and side wings etc. The problem you invariably get with these things is that the baffle will vibrate as it is virtually flapping in the breeze. Try the MDF damping at the bottom. You can make some tapered wings out of cardboard, fastened in place...

So you like them then :D Steve Well, TBH I'd fibbing if I said they were the bestest thing ever. A quick appraisal... Top-OK actually, there's a genuine 'hear through' quality about it that I've head in SteveS, Pauls and Nicks OB's but unfortunately that's where the similarity's cease :( It's also ...

Thanks Steve,

Ok, We've just been listening to them for a while with various LP tracks and I've found a picture that personifies their unique sound..




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:shock: http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z109/davethebass1/CIMG8859.jpg http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z109/davethebass1/CIMG8860.jpg Then I rounded over the fronts and rear mounted (sniggers) the drivers... http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z109/davethebass1/CIMG8862.jpg From the back... htt...

Oooooo! Looky what I made.


Asymmetric tombstones

Do I front or rear mount the speakers Steve?

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Thats brill. Thanks Steve.

Back down to the shed for me, back in a jiffy.

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Hi Dave I'll be back with a drawing soon. Steve Many thanks Steve, as a guess I've done a radius on the existing slanting corner using an 18" fruit bowl (M+S!) as template. I'm just making up an Oval template to cut the hole of the weird looking bass/mid range unit whilst having a coffee :) DTB

Okey dokey, glutton for punishment ( ;) ) reporting in Steve!!! I started with this... http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z109/davethebass1/CIMG8833.jpg Using my Sherlock Holmes gene I found a source of OB material... http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z109/davethebass1/CIMG8834.jpg Here's my newly ...