'LGT' Construction Diary

[FullThrottleRic]

Originally posted by ShinOBIWAN

Here's a couple of what's quite often regarded as amongst the elite:

Compared to those your creation looks reasonably compact

Whats the last speaker?

[ShinOBIWAN]

Originally posted by FullThrottleRic
Compared to those your creation looks reasonably compact

That was the aim relatively speaking and although quite large I think they're just on the borderline of acceptability but I certainly wouldn't want anything larger.

Whats the last speaker?

The Rockport Arrakis. I think this is the best looking speaker on the planet. Beautiful lines and overall shape. I took a couple of styling cues from them with these but nothing as outright gorgeous as that, I wish I knew more about building cabinets with fibreglass and resin because that's the only way to sensibly tackle something like that.

[FullThrottleRic]

Originally posted by ShinOBIWAN
I wish I knew more about building cabinets with fibreglass and resin because that's the only way to sensibly tackle something like that.

Concrete?

Oh, sensible hehe

[Tenson]

Originally posted by ShinOBIWAN


The Rockport Arrakis. I think this is the best looking speaker on the planet.

They don't sound too bad either! Got rather a nice sound out of them at the Manchester show a couple years back.

Edit:

Wait no sorry that was the Hyperion...

[wigginjs]

What are the middle speakers? More my style.

[ackcheng]

Focus audio aldo had something similar

http://www.stereotimes.com/speak031706.shtml

[ShinOBIWAN]

Originally posted by m0tion
What are the middle speakers? More my style.

Evolution Acoustics MM3.

http://evolutionacoustics.com/lineup.html



I'm not keen on the looks but do like the way they used vertical lamination of Birch with each piece a different shape to form an irregular interior surface. That's for each each enclosure too. I think the walls are 3" thick in some places and each speaker weighs about 700lbs.

I believe these use the newish Accuton C90-T6 mid which I almost used for this project.

[ShinOBIWAN]

Originally posted by Tenson



They don't sound too bad either! Got rather a nice sound out of them at the Manchester show a couple years back.

Edit:

Wait no sorry that was the Hyperion...

Yeah I remember those, weren't they being driven by some large Boulder monoblocks?

[ShinOBIWAN]

More beauty from Rockport:

[edjosh23]

Shin,

They look beautiful so far. Get to work, and take more pictures.


Josh

P.S. I have a couple of pictures of my build on page 17 of my website, they really can't compare.