Westwell with pics.

weikertball · 10th October 2008, 05:10 PM

what should I do with these speakers??

planet10 · 10th October 2008, 08:02 PM

Lovely set of National/Panasonic FRs you have there (the shiny silkish dustcup is the give away).

They are probably best suited to OB duty as a mid-tweeter in something like MJK's simple passive XO baffle project.

Fs is probably 110-130 Hz with a Q close to 1 (depends on how much the alnico slug has aged)

dave

weikertball · 11th October 2008, 04:43 AM

cool. I'm glad someone chimed in! They don't sound bad in the original boxes but they don't sound great either. I can't put my finger on it but I don't quite like it. The original enclosures aren't flimsy but the wood is really thin and I think that doesn't help the sound much. They need serious help in the lower octaves, obviously. I like the idea of an open baffle, too. I wonder if I could pull something off using these in an OB and have my BIB's, both of them playing full range. Those westwell's sound good on vocal music and acoustic tracks. I don't know how imaging would be, though. I should invest woofer tester.

weikertball · 15th October 2008, 04:14 AM

Anybody else have any ideas?

tomtt · 21st October 2008, 02:33 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by weikertball
Anybody else have any ideas?

a vote for ,

open baffle ...

10th October 2008, 05:10 PM	#1
weikertball diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany	Westwell with pics. what should I do with these speakers??

10th October 2008, 08:02 PM	#2
planet10 frugal-phile(tm) diyAudio Moderator Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Victoria, BC, NA, Sol III Blog Entries: 4	Lovely set of National/Panasonic FRs you have there (the shiny silkish dustcup is the give away). They are probably best suited to OB duty as a mid-tweeter in something like MJK's simple passive XO baffle project. Fs is probably 110-130 Hz with a Q close to 1 (depends on how much the alnico slug has aged) dave __________________ community sites t-linespeakers.org, frugal-horn.com ........ commercial site planet10-HiFi p10-hifi forum here at diyA

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11th October 2008, 04:43 AM	#3
weikertball diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany	cool. I'm glad someone chimed in! They don't sound bad in the original boxes but they don't sound great either. I can't put my finger on it but I don't quite like it. The original enclosures aren't flimsy but the wood is really thin and I think that doesn't help the sound much. They need serious help in the lower octaves, obviously. I like the idea of an open baffle, too. I wonder if I could pull something off using these in an OB and have my BIB's, both of them playing full range. Those westwell's sound good on vocal music and acoustic tracks. I don't know how imaging would be, though. I should invest woofer tester.

15th October 2008, 04:14 AM	#4
weikertball diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany	Anybody else have any ideas?

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