Frugal Horn Mk3 builds

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pre65 wrote:
If it gets any worse I'll have to re-employ nurse. :lol:
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Ali Tait wrote:Very nice finish! Did you spray them yourself?
Yep, using gloss enamel spray cans. Definitely not the most efficient way. By the time I'd finished I thought "I probably could have bought a decent spray gun and a tin of paint for the same price of all the spray cans" haha.
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Nice job. Look like they were professionally sprayed.
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markmaxwell wrote:Yep, using gloss enamel spray cans.

You're kidding me. :shock:
 
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God morning,

I'm new here and i live in germany-hamburg. sorry for my bad english, i forgot to much.

why I'm post here in this thread? I'm listening a long time with my Fostex fe 168ez in a original backloaded horn. but this horns plays just good in the corners of teh room. some body told me I should building a frugal horn.

Is here somebody who has builded the frugal-horn with the fostex fe 168ez? and from where can I get the plans for building.

It would be great if somone can help me.
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Sorry,

I found the Plans, but they are for the smaler driver.
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Leaving aside the fact that the FE168ESigma is physically too wide to fit in FH3 (no, you can't just widen it), it really needs a larger enclosure / horn for optimal performance. Sorry.
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@Scottmoose,
that is why I'm askin. The normal "frugel" was build for smaler Chassis.
Maybe is somone here who build it with the bigger fe168ez.
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Probably not. You see, I designed it (or a fair proportion), so I'm reasonably well versed on developments on that front. ;) We have done a somewhat larger design of this type (FHXL), but it was intended for 5in units, with the Mark Audio Alpair 10P being the default. The 168ESigma should physically fit & may (may) work -I'll need to check. It's not going to be released freely, like FH3 was, but a few are being beta tested at the moment; contact Dave via the Frugal-Horn site.
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@Scottmoose,

Thank you for the answer. I will contact him.
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#491 Re: Frugal Horn Mk3 builds

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I have finally dug my Frugal Horn 3 speakers out from the loft.


The MDF cabinets (from an Ebay seller in Germany) have been re-united with my "enabled" Fostex FE126 drivers and were used for TV duties for a few days fed by an old Sony SS amp, which gave me a decent sound, at last.


Just now I substituted the Frugals in place of my baffles, and to be honest, I'm surprised how good they sound. In their temporary position the bass is a bit light, but everything else is lacking nothing. Stereo sound-stage is very good, and they seem "less obvious" in use. The amps being used are my GK-71 (as a triode) monoblocks.


I may well give the baffles a "rest" in the near future and set up the Frugals in a more optimum position.
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