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Well, kind of...my speakers were actually built by the admins of this area of the HT Guide, but I assisted in their finishing 
Last week Thomas invited me over to finish up these great speakers so that I could replace my older Infinity RS3's with something that had a little more balls And these speakers certainly do have a set on 'em!
First off, I want to thank Thomas and Jon for creating these in the first place. I can't tell you how honored I feel to have a matching front soundstage created by two extremely talented and well versed speaker builders. Their knowledge definitely sings through in these speakers.
These things are NOT light, by any means at all. I'm guessing they weigh around 85lbs each, because of the solid MDF sides. They were a lot of fun to finish, but not fun to carry to the car
I left Thomas' house and took them home, and FINALLY got them upstairs. I turned on my TV to warm it up before I even got them in the room. Oh yes, it was demo time!
I managed to get them into my room and in place. I hooked them up and powered everything else on. I was serious about getting some use out of these.
The first thing I put in was Fight Club, and holy mother of jesus, these things sang right along. The opening music sounded insane!
See, I had bookshelves before, so this was a treat for me, because I got to jump into my Denon's menu once more and set the fronts and center from SMALL to LARGE, and man that made all the difference in the world.
Where the mids sounded good before, they sounded absolutely heavenly now. I had it pretty loud too, and these guys didn't even flinch.
The scene where he's in the jet, and it starts to crash...well...I knew it was coming up, I've seen this movie a dozen times, but this was the ONLY time it actually startled the hell out of me. I guess I wasn't expecting the PUNCH (no pun intended, heh) that the speakers delivered.
This may be random, but one other scene really grabbed my attention. The scene just before they crash the car, where they are getting in the car and it's raining. It actually made me extremely nervous, as the rain sounded so real. I honestly thought for a split second that there was water in my room. That was extremely impressive!
I had a lot of work to do yesterday and the day before, so I didn't get as much demo time as I would have liked.
But I did get a chance to throw in a few more, included Saving Private Ryan DTS. Once again, I was shocked by what these speakers were doing.
I especially love the center channel. It sounds a lot more natural when there's dialogue in the movies now. It's not too muddy, not too bright, it's just perfect!
I'm just extremely excited about having these things, and hearing what they can do! Thanks to both Jon and Thomas for creating such an amazing set of speakers!!!
You can check out my website at http://www.joey6p.com/diyspeakers.html to see pictures / movies on the final product, the process of finishing, and the "innards" of these bad boys in the DIY and Joey6P's Home Theater sections of the page
J6P
Last week Thomas invited me over to finish up these great speakers so that I could replace my older Infinity RS3's with something that had a little more balls
And these speakers certainly do have a set on 'em!First off, I want to thank Thomas and Jon for creating these in the first place. I can't tell you how honored I feel to have a matching front soundstage created by two extremely talented and well versed speaker builders. Their knowledge definitely sings through in these speakers.
These things are NOT light, by any means at all. I'm guessing they weigh around 85lbs each, because of the solid MDF sides. They were a lot of fun to finish, but not fun to carry to the car
I left Thomas' house and took them home, and FINALLY got them upstairs. I turned on my TV to warm it up before I even got them in the room. Oh yes, it was demo time!
I managed to get them into my room and in place. I hooked them up and powered everything else on. I was serious about getting some use out of these.
The first thing I put in was Fight Club, and holy mother of jesus, these things sang right along. The opening music sounded insane!
See, I had bookshelves before, so this was a treat for me, because I got to jump into my Denon's menu once more and set the fronts and center from SMALL to LARGE, and man that made all the difference in the world.
Where the mids sounded good before, they sounded absolutely heavenly now. I had it pretty loud too, and these guys didn't even flinch.
The scene where he's in the jet, and it starts to crash...well...I knew it was coming up, I've seen this movie a dozen times, but this was the ONLY time it actually startled the hell out of me. I guess I wasn't expecting the PUNCH (no pun intended, heh) that the speakers delivered.
This may be random, but one other scene really grabbed my attention. The scene just before they crash the car, where they are getting in the car and it's raining. It actually made me extremely nervous, as the rain sounded so real. I honestly thought for a split second that there was water in my room. That was extremely impressive!
I had a lot of work to do yesterday and the day before, so I didn't get as much demo time as I would have liked.
But I did get a chance to throw in a few more, included Saving Private Ryan DTS. Once again, I was shocked by what these speakers were doing.
I especially love the center channel. It sounds a lot more natural when there's dialogue in the movies now. It's not too muddy, not too bright, it's just perfect!
I'm just extremely excited about having these things, and hearing what they can do! Thanks to both Jon and Thomas for creating such an amazing set of speakers!!!
You can check out my website at http://www.joey6p.com/diyspeakers.html to see pictures / movies on the final product, the process of finishing, and the "innards" of these bad boys in the DIY and Joey6P's Home Theater sections of the page
J6P
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