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Monthly Archives: May 2011

Timber…

Local DIY shop called that they already had cut all MDF. Took out the hacksaw to cut the tapered bottom and top panel and to create the braces and a few hours later I could lay some MDF on to each other to make the photo below:Continue Reading

Mailorder…

Sooner then expected…Continue Reading

Loudspeaker #3…

Made a template for the curved panels. The old fashion way. Cut it from some leftover matboard.  With a steady hand, a sharp knife and good light it’s quite easy to cut the curves. Friday I’ll visit a local shop to get all MDF. And in a few weeks it might look something like this:Continue Reading

Loudspeaker #2…

After some reading, and some more reading and calculations I changed the midwoofer to the W18EX001 and the tweeter back to the Visaton KE25C I was looking at before. That calls for a somewhat bigger cabinet. The cabinet roughly measures (h*d*w): 39cm*32cm and the width tapers from 21cm to 12,5cm. While drawing and calculating theContinue Reading

LOUD!!speaker…

One of my many areas of interests: I always wanted to build speakers myself, after a first (failed) attempt in the 80′ties of the previous century I never pursued  it.  With the internet a lot more data and knowledge is accessible that was not 30 years ago. I’ve been doing a lot of reading onContinue Reading

Lyngdorf…

I’ve bought the Lyngdorf, sadly I had bad luck and something was wrong. After the weekend the amplifier will be replaced with a new one. The distributor will come to my place to swap the amplifier. About a week ago I also listened to speakers in a Hifi shop, out of curiosity, to see ifContinue Reading

Spring…

Vouwere, April 2011Continue Reading