tade no esl

[Brian Beck]

Alas, women escape me, and i fear they always shall

I've been married for 28 years, and I love my wife very much, but I agree with you.

[tade]

My esl setup, though, the nicecst speakers i have ever heard, are too delicate for a dorm setting... oh well, i plan on making a low efficiency bookshelf. a fat ribbn midrange, and a big ole woofer. should be durable and reasonable good sounding. Ill post on that too!
thanks for all the help!
thaddeus

[Andersonix]

When can we see pictures?
Yes, for college you probably shouldn't have anything nice lying around at all. Even pens, paper, and leftover food aren't safe. Don't think of bringing original CDs, only CD-Rs. I'm guessing engineering school?

[tade]

The panel is one by four feet and the spacing is about one mm. the H baffle sub has "chamber" volumes of one cubic foot. the woofer is a goldwood ten inch with a foam surround and an fs of 41hz. no need to attenuate greatly because of the driver and h baffle's low inherent efficiency. the h baffles surprised me greatly. they went very low and of course, with no boom. i cannot imagine how well a pair of high excurion fifteen inchers would do in this setup. *drools* The transformers were cheap tube output jobs and the HV supply was ganked from an old russion night vision scope. i have no idea what the voltage is.

and now what you few have been waiting for!
www4.ncsu.edu/~tkwolick/esl/panelfront40.JPG
www4.ncsu.edu/~tkwolick/esl/panelfoot40.JPG
www4.ncsu.edu/~tkwolick/esl/sub40.JPG
www4.ncsu.edu/~tkwolick/esl/electronics40.JPG

And yes, this is an engineering school. we trade off good times for good equipment. Life is full of choices. You ask me if i am excited about my choice come saturday night...

[jmateus]

I forgot

I found out a long time ago that double stick tape is not good enough to use as spacers for ESL.
I've been using PVC material about 3 mm thick and these are
pratically eternal as far as original shape and characteristics
are concerned.
And so happens that I have plenty of spacers already cut from
my last ESL project.
If you guys are interested please drop me a line (e-mail, of
course).

[TimA]

tade,

My ESL activities to date have been limited to rebuilding Quad ESLs but I am increasingly tempted to try a homebrew. Various dilemmas regarding how to construct the stators for best results and ease of construction have so far prevented this from happening. Your stators look interesting, you say you used aluminium screen, for what purpose is this sold and does it have a name?
Also what is the square-looking mesh in your picture and is the screen attached to this to keep it straight?

Thanks,
Tim.