Today I have finally completed building my finalist. I had to work day and night for last two days and completed assembling it. I did not buy the kit but bought all components separately and one of my friends brought that to my location (Bangladesh). It was my first attempt to such venture and I love it. The most unwanted mishap took place during the process is that, my friend by mistake bought 2 x NE149W but one was 4 ohm and another one 8 ohm. I had no option other than use it as it is not possible to carry or courier that for getting it right. I am thankful to Jim and Curt for their kind suggestion and advice to adjust the mid. According to Curt's suggestion I used the 8.2 ohm resistor in place of 3.3 ohm resistor (with 8 ohm ne149w) and it sound pretty close to the original design. My one is a tower configuration by extending the side panels. I forgot to order wedged foam, but I did that by myself as this kind of foam is not available here. I bought a piece of 2" foam and cut that with a sharp ( knife and I think I did that very well, lol.
Today I tested the sound, and found that one of the woofers is not responding. Probably there is a mistake in wiring, to night I shall check it. But, I am not fully satisfied wirh the low frequency response. I have a pair of Bose 701 which is in the process of selling, the bass effect of it is better than finalist IMO(what I am hearing now). I heard so many good remarks about Finalist low frequency performance but I could not achieve that. There must be some kind of mistake that I have done during the build process, which I need to rectify.
I have mounted the XO at the bottom and sealed the hole properly. Cabinet is exactly as per the measurement. I have fixed the damping foam at the woofer portion of the cabinet. The wedge direction is vertically placed. The backside is fixed with the same foam from the top upto the bottom edge of the cabinet (24" of the back panel). The 2.5 Port was 8.5" ( http://www.parts-express.com/speaker...lared--260-478 )of length and I cut that to 7 3/4". I feel good air presure when I touch the port, but bass is not full. Is it that as one of the woofer in one speaker is not active so the overall depth is reduced?
I have wrapped the mid tunnel with 1 inch foam covering 7.5" from speaker end and left the 5.5 inch of the rear part without damping.
Can someone please suggest, looking forward to getting attention of Jim
Today I tested the sound, and found that one of the woofers is not responding. Probably there is a mistake in wiring, to night I shall check it. But, I am not fully satisfied wirh the low frequency response. I have a pair of Bose 701 which is in the process of selling, the bass effect of it is better than finalist IMO(what I am hearing now). I heard so many good remarks about Finalist low frequency performance but I could not achieve that. There must be some kind of mistake that I have done during the build process, which I need to rectify.
I have mounted the XO at the bottom and sealed the hole properly. Cabinet is exactly as per the measurement. I have fixed the damping foam at the woofer portion of the cabinet. The wedge direction is vertically placed. The backside is fixed with the same foam from the top upto the bottom edge of the cabinet (24" of the back panel). The 2.5 Port was 8.5" ( http://www.parts-express.com/speaker...lared--260-478 )of length and I cut that to 7 3/4". I feel good air presure when I touch the port, but bass is not full. Is it that as one of the woofer in one speaker is not active so the overall depth is reduced?
I have wrapped the mid tunnel with 1 inch foam covering 7.5" from speaker end and left the 5.5 inch of the rear part without damping.
Can someone please suggest, looking forward to getting attention of Jim
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