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[ODougbo]

A bit of a long story here, I went out on my own building 125wk boxes, actually built 7 boxes, not counting the pair in the pic. I tried different sizes and tuning frequencies.

The 1st pair was too small, sounded thin, jumped up a couple of liters and picked up some bass, but still not right.

I threw in the towel and contacted david@planet10-hifi.com and he had designed a Fonken for this driver (pic).

In a word Wow! Much better than anything that I came up with, a lot better; crystal clear sound, warm and throaty bass. The P10 plans were excellent, easy to follow; I did enlarge the plans full scale on a copier (recommend).

For comparison, I do have two pairs of 120FXs in different boxes; I cannot listen to all the songs on a CD, some will sound off-wall-fantastic, but others are a little sour. I do think a tube amp would help (using a sansui 7070).

This last pair is unbelievable: not an expensive build, easy to follow plans, sound fantastic - without being selective and using a transistor amp [Rotel, RB 980BX].

[vinylkid58]

Originally Posted by ODougbo

I cannot listen to all the songs on a CD.

Neither can I, but it's not the speakers.

Nice work BTW.

jeff

[chrisb]

Originally Posted by vinylkid58

Neither can I, but it's not the speakers.

Nice work BTW.

jeff

dude, as you can recall from the weekend, even on vinyl some albums are a waste of stylus wear


Doug: glad you're happy

tys

[ODougbo]

They have a very nice lay back, easy to listen too quality.

I'd say it seemed all "too easy", except for the 7 previous builds.

[vinylkid58]

Originally Posted by chrisb

dude, as you can recall from the weekend, even on vinyl some albums are a waste of stylus wear

Blatantly obvious wasn't it. Sadly, there are others, such is the pop/rock music scene these days.

jeff

[westend]

Originally Posted by planet10

A pair of uFonken that showed up at DIY 2011 in Gothenburg, Sweden.



dave

Hey Dave, any idea who these belonged to? More to the point, I have a pair of Fostex FE108E Sigmas that need a home in a small box. I was thinking Fonken from the get-go and stumbled on one of your posts and plans for a MilliFonken, plan dated from '07, variation ov7. Did you get a chance to measure this at all? Just curious more than practically concerned, I plan to use these in my travel trailer where space is small and I don't require critical listening.
TIA and best wishes,
Lance

[planet10]

Originally Posted by westend

Hey Dave, any idea who these belonged to? More to the point, I have a pair of Fostex FE108E Sigmas that need a home in a small box. I was thinking Fonken from the get-go and stumbled on one of your posts and plans for a MilliFonken, plan dated from '07, variation ov7. Did you get a chance to measure this at all? Just curious more than practically concerned, I plan to use these in my travel trailer where space is small and I don't require critical listening.
TIA and best wishes,
Lance

A fellow from Luxenbourg i believe

There is a mFonken108. We've not built it. It will have somewhat limited bass.

dave

[planet10]

This can be fitted with Alpair6.2P or M. 15 x 25 x 12 (WxHxD)

[westend]

Originally Posted by planet10

A fellow from Luxenbourg i believe

There is a mFonken108. We've not built it. It will have somewhat limited bass.

dave

Thanks for the reply. The mFonken 4.5 l cabinet plan is identical to the millifonken plan I referenced previously. I guess I'll build them and see how it sounds, I'm not looking for a lot of bass just a clear breath of air when I get tired of the other set of speakers in the RV. Also, it will give me a new candidate for my newly acquired measurement gear. I'll post up some pictures when they are mounted in the RV, the Cowboy Hilton.

[planet10]

Originally Posted by westend

The mFonken 4.5 l cabinet plan is identical to the millifonken plan I referenced previously.

mFonken is a milliFonken, and is 4.5 litre. Tuning is different for the FE108eS than for the mFonken's FE127. Same shell, different tuning

dave