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29th July 2009, 04:31 AM
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rFonken -- Success & Failure
After seeing & touching the PE curved Parts Express cabinets we thot we'd explore the idea of a flat-pak baffle assembly that turned the 1/2 ft^3 (14 litre) PE cabinet into a member of the Fonken family.
The PE cabinet is quite good. Top, bottom, & back are all quite small. Sides are a plywood made of a laminate of 6 layers of MDF. Sides, top & bottom are braced. The weak point is the MDF baffle. They are well finished and come in a variety of flavours (black, cherry, maple). The one down-side is that the MDF is somewhat "soft" and it is not all that hard to damage the edges (pictures later). We devised and built up a baffle & installed them into a set of cherry finished PE cabinets. The Success: they work really well. Not quite the finese of a set of FonkenPrime but close. The Failure: turns out it is almost as hard to build these as it is to build a full set of FonkenPrime. Also a problem was the dimensional consistancy of the 2 pair of PE cabs we have was not all that good. So we had to abandon the idea of flat-pak baffles. The Upside: someone can have the R&D mules REALLY cheap (see the Swap Meet) Full plans are here http://homepage.mac.com/tlinespeaker...map-290709.pdf (not there as i write this, i need to run them thru acrobat) dave
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29th July 2009, 04:36 AM
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29th July 2009, 05:09 AM
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They look good, Dave!
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30th July 2009, 08:21 AM
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Sorry for the delay... i finally got the plans in place so thatthe link in post 1 works.
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31st July 2009, 03:51 PM
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Very interesting.
I have to admit, I prefer the look of your FonkenPrime though. You didn't mention any disadvantage from not having the bevelled edges compared with the FonkenPrime ?
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31st July 2009, 05:17 PM
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