Help choosing speakers for kitchen / Everyday room

[lykkedk]

Hello all

I am planning, making some speakers, for out kitchen room.

The room is approx. 6x4 meters (24square), and i need speakers to hang on the corners (at the wall).

I am planning, making them active with some buildin LM amp. e.g. http://www.national.com/profile/snip.cgi/openDS=LM1875 -Perhaps with a bass boost circuit.

But thats not important here.

What i really need, is some guidance of what to choose, and what to build.
The speakers must be cheap (Well around 75-100$ for a pair of raw drivers), as i am not intend to use a lot of money on this projekt. -I was thinking of some 5-8" fullranger in a diy chassis.

Any input's. ???

Jesper.

[Tom V]

The Micro-Tower HalfTower wallMount for Mark Audio CHR-70?

http://homepage.mac.com/tlinespeaker...aps-150909.pdf

[planet10]

I would recommend CHR as well. One of the reasons being that the metal cone won't absorb cooking smells.

It can be made to work in boxes from 5litre sealed to 9 litre vented, and then things like the ML-TLs (like the halfTower)

dave

[ßart West-VL.]

Why would it matter if the cone absorbed cooking smells? Does it matter if the surround absorbs it instead?

I immediately saved that PDF-file, great stuff!

[planet10]

Originally Posted by ßart West-VL.

Why would it matter if the cone absorbed cooking smells? Does it matter if the surround absorbs it instead?

It isn't just the smells, but deterioration they & cooking oil (& likely smoke) will cause a paper cone. You could use something poly like TB W5-1611 too, it thou will take a bigger box and has an open voice coil.

dave

[lykkedk]

The Micro-Tower HalfTower wallMount for Mark Audio CHR-70?

Hi Thanx for reply's... Maybe i cant see, but they are supposed to be hang up the wall ? - hope you know what i meen ?

Dave :

They will not get any kitchen smoke, actually they will be hung up on opposite wall, away from that

Jesper.

[cogitech]

Originally Posted by lykkedk

Hi Thanx for reply's... Maybe i cant see, but they are supposed to be hang up the wall ? - hope you know what i meen ?

They will not get any kitchen smoke, actually they will be hung up on opposite wall, away from that

Jesper.

Page seven of the PDF shows the wall-mount version.

Kitchen smoke/oil will travel quite far, depending on what/how you cook, of course

[jimbro]

Wouldn't puzzlecoat help that?

[cogitech]

Originally Posted by jimbro

Wouldn't puzzlecoat help that?

I've been looking into this myself because my new microTowers (EL70) are in my living room which is directly adjacent to my kitchen (typical bungalow layout) and I am quite concerned about smoke, oils, dust, etc. getting onto the beautiful paper cones of the EL70s, doubly so because 2 of my four drivers are on the top surface of my towers and these oils settle readily on horizontal surfaces.

Just last night my wife accidentally burned some oil when she was making fried tofu and the kitchen/living room area filled with oily smoke. I panicked and put a sheet of Kleenex on each of the top-mounted drivers, but I'd really rather not have to worry about this.

In hindsight, I should have bought metal, poly, or cerametallic coned drivers, but that is not the case so now I am in search of an appropriate paper cone treatment. I read about "Puzzlecoat" and Scotchguard, and also about diluting white (PVA) glue 10:1 and painting it on.

I hope someone (dave? ) can ring in on this without taking us too far off topic. For anything in/near a kitchen, I think it is a valid concern.

[cogitech]

Perhaps I should ask the question in another way.

Dave, would your EL70en (EnABLed) drivers be more resilient in a kitchen than stock EL70s? If so, what do you use, or recommend using, as a coating?

EDIT: Never mind, Dave. I see your answer here http://www.t-linespeakers.org/design/tweeks.html

I appears as though my EL70s might end up sounding better and be more resilient to environmental factors if I treat them in this way.