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I'm baaaaaccckkk!! I finally got home long enough to finish my Nat-Ps. See Pictures below.
Sound is phenomenal, very detailed and open. I cut my port length down to 6 inches from the 11 that I had before and it did wonders for bass response. I actually am ok with the bottom ports now. With these two speakers in my theater, bass is solid and of high quality in these cabs. I will be moving them to my 2-channel room eventually. I will report on how they compare to my Spendor S5e's and my Vandersteen 2C's. I expect they will blow both out of the water based on what I have heard so far (although the speakers are in different rooms so it is hard to compare yet).
Note the feet I made out of Africa Mahagony and added adjustable spikes (the right speaker does not have it's spikes in the picture). With the spikes, I can raise the speaker from 1.5" up to as much as 3" off the floor.
The boxes turned out amazingly well (although I would like to change the black painted finish to a veneer next time). Finish on the mahagony veern of the baffle, top, back, and bottom is a wipe on poly and I will wax them after about three days. I may sit them in the sun so they darken even more. Screws are two sizes of pocket hole screws. I got hurricane screw inserts and secutity hex screws for my next project but either works very well.
Crossover wiring I will need to upgrade at some point to the ApexJr stuff but I have not put the order in yet. Sounds pretty darn good even with my regular 16 guage wire, though. I just got some Cardas EU Solder and that seems to work well.
I lined the back wall of the box at the top above the first brace and lined the front wall at the bottom below the lower brace. I also lined the bottom around the port opening. Crossovers are easily removable through the woofer holes. They are ready for auditions.
These sound great. One big question, though. If I replace the Nat-P crossover with the modula-MTM crossover, where will the difference in sound show up? Anybody know? I started this quest wanting to compare the two but these sound so good I have a hard time imagining much of a difference.
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Anybody thinking of building these should go for it starting yesterday. Thanks to all for the help and I will post more impressions on the comparisons.
Sound is phenomenal, very detailed and open. I cut my port length down to 6 inches from the 11 that I had before and it did wonders for bass response. I actually am ok with the bottom ports now. With these two speakers in my theater, bass is solid and of high quality in these cabs. I will be moving them to my 2-channel room eventually. I will report on how they compare to my Spendor S5e's and my Vandersteen 2C's. I expect they will blow both out of the water based on what I have heard so far (although the speakers are in different rooms so it is hard to compare yet).
Note the feet I made out of Africa Mahagony and added adjustable spikes (the right speaker does not have it's spikes in the picture). With the spikes, I can raise the speaker from 1.5" up to as much as 3" off the floor.
The boxes turned out amazingly well (although I would like to change the black painted finish to a veneer next time). Finish on the mahagony veern of the baffle, top, back, and bottom is a wipe on poly and I will wax them after about three days. I may sit them in the sun so they darken even more. Screws are two sizes of pocket hole screws. I got hurricane screw inserts and secutity hex screws for my next project but either works very well.
Crossover wiring I will need to upgrade at some point to the ApexJr stuff but I have not put the order in yet. Sounds pretty darn good even with my regular 16 guage wire, though. I just got some Cardas EU Solder and that seems to work well.
I lined the back wall of the box at the top above the first brace and lined the front wall at the bottom below the lower brace. I also lined the bottom around the port opening. Crossovers are easily removable through the woofer holes. They are ready for auditions.
These sound great. One big question, though. If I replace the Nat-P crossover with the modula-MTM crossover, where will the difference in sound show up? Anybody know? I started this quest wanting to compare the two but these sound so good I have a hard time imagining much of a difference.
Images not available
Anybody thinking of building these should go for it starting yesterday. Thanks to all for the help and I will post more impressions on the comparisons.
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