It's not easy being green (apologies to Kermit)

[planet10]

One of the nice things about the white Fostex cones is that they can be made almost any colour... here is a recent set i did for a client in NY.



She likes these better than her TB 1772 (both sonically & cosmetically). I expect the TB to land here soon for the same treatment.

Here is a robin's egg blue FE126. These are in the UK now... they are pre-EnABL.



Another shade of blue... pretreated (and matched) for the client to do their own EnABL



More to follow.

dave

[Richard Ellis]

As carefully engineered as the Fostex seems to be, wouldn't you worry about adding mass or stiffening the cone by applying.....anything?


-Dipole Fostex Front Horn-..<<<<Youtube...

__________________________________________________ ____Rick.....

[planet10]

Quite a lot of experimentation went into these mods... what comes out the other end is quite a bit better than stock.

The materials added go add mass, not much but enuff to lower Fs & efficiency a bit. But a change in the weather can make a bigger difference. Materials added remain flexible Except for the trifoil ring -- it has the specific purpose of disrupting the 7k resonance that exists in the stock driver. Flexation thou is more controlled -- or at least it would seem from the lowering of the noise floor.

dave

[doorman]

Originally Posted by Richard Ellis

As carefully engineered as the Fostex seems to be, wouldn't you worry about adding mass or stiffening the cone by applying.....anything?


-Dipole Fostex Front Horn-..<<<<Youtube...

__________________________________________________ ____Rick.....

After owning several pairs of eNABled drivers, a la P-10, there's no worries at all.
The end result is superior, IMHO.
Not surprising, as the Fostex designed cabinets can be improved on as well.
Anyone ever asked for a refund, Dave?
Don

[planet10]

Originally Posted by doorman

Anyone ever asked for a refund, Dave?

No. Many have bought more after living with the 1st pair. The green ones are #3 for that client.

dave

[planet10]

Here are a couple more examples.

This one is an experiment to see about blending 2 colours together to get a gradient... i didn't suceed but learned a lot and still ended up with a pretty set of drivers (we have just built a special set of mFonken to house these (for our Fostex archives)



A set of light blue with purple spots:



One more for tonight. A client had his DCA4 sent directly here. He wanted Maroon with yellow spots. I drove a maroon Jaguar for awhile. I used that as a colour reference. He loves them.



dave

[Scottmoose]

I trust it didn't have yellow spots.

[chrisb]

Originally Posted by Scottmoose

I trust it didn't have yellow spots.

very late reply, but couldn't resist;

as you well know, all spots on the Jag would have been an iron oxide colour

[planet10]

Gold on gold Alpair6eN



Black with White Spots FE206eN




dave

[planet10]

Tangband W8-1808, and the mates to the FE126eN in the 1st post (W8-1772 & FE127eN)





dave