Final setup. Looks nice enought to me to not need to be hidden with speaker cloth, I'll add it anyway.
I added 2mm foam on all inner sides of the shelf to prevent potential rattling. Zero wasted space (to tight it took >5min of pushing to get them squeezed in).
One of the trial ported fronts came out better than the flush so I used that on and filled in the port holes, made them a different color so it looks intentional =P
I added 2mm foam on all inner sides of the shelf to prevent potential rattling. Zero wasted space (to tight it took >5min of pushing to get them squeezed in).
One of the trial ported fronts came out better than the flush so I used that on and filled in the port holes, made them a different color so it looks intentional =P
I made a frame suction cupped to the shelves. My cats usually don't mess with stuff like this, but that woofer is very large and eye level for them.
It's ugly, miss measured something as it's 1/2" too wide but temporary and very removable.
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Cover Lasted 29 days til it got peed on. Unless I think of a better solution that woofer is going to happen moved up and be parallel to the mid and Tweeter. Once something gets peed on it will keep getting peed on
this cat "spray" on things on the floor that makes annoying noises or vibrations (like the vacumn cleaner, air purifier, my tower pc after I added a loud twin fan video card). He's never shown interest in speakers but I knew there was a chance a bassy 12" woofer might be a trigger.
Enzyme cleaner will safely un-scent most things. Ill give it more time but its probably not a one time thing.
Well, I didn't spray them if that's what you mean, though the lingering 'antiseptic' smell did seem to act as a warning of sorts, but long term had to have them 'fixed' once we got the kittens we wanted.
Speaking of which.... recently it was pointed out to me that the 0.5 ohms I've listed all these years dates from when amps still had relatively low DF and other high resistance components (circa 1968) Vs today's super high DF amps, minimal XO losses, so guess some measurements need to be made of today's typical (DIY) speakers to find a more accurate default.
If you're using an external sub, then I'd just go for the sealed option and be done with it. Both ported and aperiodic can be a mess with tricky tuning, and I didn't find aperiodic bass to sound all that good anyway. Although there may be potential, so if you're willing to rework some holes and/or a grille covered with layers of compressed felt, then go for it. There may be some higher frequencies leaking out with uncontrolled phase, so use that to your advantage and put it at the back, opposite the speaker.