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I'd estimate about 4 foot tall, the common size for tower designs.
I don't like common, it's boring.
Hope was the stand, and the later pic in system with woofTs would give some idea.
Same size as the box on the left, 2.5 litre net volume:
dave
Nice looking cabinets.
Is there any FR curve available to have an idea of their sound?
I mean the small ones.
Also any data on the drivers used, which I guess are your own production?
Thanks.
Is there any FR curve available to have an idea of their sound?
I mean the small ones.
Also any data on the drivers used, which I guess are your own production?
Thanks.
Bernie?
Sorry, I don't know about him, I assume he is a master craftsman who is in your area.
But the cabinet work and joints speak for themselves, a testimony to his talent and careful work.
The wood would have to be aged, and properly seasoned to get such a result as well.
Really rare to see such quality in speaker cabinets.
Sorry, I don't know about him, I assume he is a master craftsman who is in your area.
But the cabinet work and joints speak for themselves, a testimony to his talent and careful work.
The wood would have to be aged, and properly seasoned to get such a result as well.
Really rare to see such quality in speaker cabinets.
EnABLed Fostex FF85wKeN, extention not as extended (or as hot) as its precursor, it barely makes it over 20kHz, about 65 Hz F10. Typically XOed to helper woofer at 250 Hz.
dave
dave
Yes, Bernie is a buddy lives about 80 Km north..
He did all of the solid builds here: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/minionken-fonken-gallery-pictures-only.214897/
The first box is his first build *seen later with a smaller EL70eN and cosmetic enhancements), made from the 70+ year old fir floor in his house.
dave
He did all of the solid builds here: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/minionken-fonken-gallery-pictures-only.214897/
The first box is his first build *seen later with a smaller EL70eN and cosmetic enhancements), made from the 70+ year old fir floor in his house.
dave
The A5.2/3 CHN-50 fit the same box with a change in tuning and detail.
A5.2eN in their own microSize trapezoid miniOnken
dave
OK, aliens have Onken boxes. Smaller aliens have miniOnkens. But what type of speaker cables do they use?
"Rare Earth", of course! Or insert whatever they call their hunk of rock in the universe.
Whatever audio reproduction they have, one can bet it's moved on from our century-old moving coil actuated cones of paper flapping around in the breeze...
Some people just hate everything. It must be a sad sort of life.
Wise one, you do know that you are talking to a well respected speaker designer that's been on these forums far longer than you or me. Those are speakers he has designed, and probably posted here somewhere. They are not "Modern mass-produced and overly expensive garbage."
I built a pair of Planet 10 designed FH-3 horns from plans posted here with Planet 10 modified 5 inch drivers in them, and yes, they are skinny and not quite 4 feet tall. In my 10 X 10 foot work room / lab / listening room in Florida they produced plenty of bass sitting upside down on a shelf with the drivers at ear level when fed with a vacuum tube amp capable of 15 WPC. I did not use a subwoofer with these speakers. Did they shake the walls of the house across the street with Pink Floyd? No, but I had some 15 inch Hawthorne Silver Iris drivers housed in a pair of identical 1941 vintage Zenith console radios fed by a 125 WPC tube amp for drowning out the boom-boom, rattle-rattle cars in the 'hood or for being able to mow the lawn without hearing the mower. Yes, DSOTM made the walls in the house across the street vibrate.
There are "proper tools" for every job, including pushing air around the room in a pleasing manner. Would I drag the big speakers into the 10 X 10 foot room? No way, and they would not sound good if I did.
The tall and skinnies do get a bit lost here in a 2000 square foot basement, but they make excellent near field monitors for my A/V workstation computer, still used upside down.
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[QUOTE="Tubelab_com, post: 7112667, member: 34285”]PSilver Iris drivers… DSOTM made the walls in the house across the street vibrate.[/QUOTE]
The walls around her are made to not vibrate but these made a very good show of it at the last diyFEST (you ever see a diy get together where a whole album was listened to?). Driven by TomC’s 200w prototype[e LM3886 amplifier.
Not skinny or short of stature.
I have a single Silver Iris 15” midBass for shipping if anyonr needs one.
dave
The walls around her are made to not vibrate but these made a very good show of it at the last diyFEST (you ever see a diy get together where a whole album was listened to?). Driven by TomC’s 200w prototype[e LM3886 amplifier.
Not skinny or short of stature.
I have a single Silver Iris 15” midBass for shipping if anyonr needs one.
dave
