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[diman86]

My 3D-printed loudspeaker, on Fountek FR89EX

 

[Freedom666]

Very nice, did you correct the frequency response with some EQ?

Or does it work from scratch?

 

[CANNON-FODDER]

FH-XLs are awfully far from having any loading on the mouth. What happens when you move them backwards?

Yeah, wondering if there's enough loading to control the driver down low in essentially 4pi space.

The joist seems to be there, so they could sit on a board.
Just wondering, what would be the expected result from being moved back with a narrow 'floor' to the wall, but having the floor gap (and then ledge) on the front?

 

[GM]

Huge? suck out below the baffle BW.

 

[Ixnay]

Correct, consequences.

I may add floor, the wall behind them is 100 yr old 1/2” ply. Maybe turn the whole listening setup.
I’ll try them inside in the living room at some point.
Drivers have a solid 35mins.

Fun build! They already sound more balanced, full (or some other descriptive audio word) than the Fostex folded horn kit I had in the same spot.

>>>>>>>> You may not have to add a floor if the speakers can span the gap.<<<<<<<<

 

[CANNON-FODDER]

Huge? suck out below the baffle BW.

Thanks!
So the front boundary is more important than the rear horn loading, at least for that design meant to be floor standing (and not up on speaker stands)?

 

[CANNON-FODDER]

My 3D-printed loudspeaker, on Fountek FR89EX

I would be so tempted to make it an eyeball with planet10's modpodge and EnABLe treatments.

 

[planet10]

modpodge

Is it a paper cone?

Sometimes modpodeg helps HF ringing but you have to be careful as you can wipe out the HF (which can be used as part of a low-pass.

dave

 

[CANNON-FODDER]

Ah, sorry. I was more going more for the color change / eyeball joke.
But, I was naively thinking modpodge might not necessarily help, but wouldn't really hurt [a paper cone]. Guess I'll go read up.

 

[GM]

Modpodge seems a 'sledge hammer' approach to driver damping, tweaking with dammar/shellac the 'feather' approach, so a 'horses for courses', i.e. recommend choosing carefully.

 

[planet10]

No, it turns out the other way round Greg.

One has to use it carefully thou.

dave

 

[GM]

How so? It's a water based paste, so to be uniform on a slope it takes a relatively thick coating IME . Back when ya'll first mentioned it I didn't equate it/nor remember the brand/whatever water based decoupage goop I used on dozens of projects for the various ladies in my life during its '80s 'craze', but sure cussed it enough on the curved wood box purses, etc..

 

[planet10]

Damar dries stiff, a thin coat of thinned modpodge just barely coats the outer surface and dries flexible.

dave

 

[rtylr]

Alright, switched FHXL to the other side so they could be close to a wall. Convincing. I’ll have to rearrange a couple things so the space is more functional but first impressions are full sound, nice image and resolving (? - I understand lyrics & sounds more clearly).

 

[LeifB60]

Very nice. Drivers? Alpair 10.3?

 

[rtylr]

Yes, the 10.3s. More than sufficient for the size of this space I think.

 

[BottleheadMan]

I made this one. Lyeco ly-401f in TL costruction.

 

[smehrlich]

a quick pair of bookshelf speakers for my lads birthday. drivers are nothing special but after the way my last attempt turned out im happy with the finish.
good practice for the ma chn110's i still have sat in a box .

 

[chrisb]

very nice grain matching and carving work there

 

[zman01]

Nice work smehrlich, your son should be very happy!