Has anyone reviewed or looked at the new Alpair 7MS or 10M?
Also what are people using for cabinet construction since Baltic birch has disappeared from the Market place?
Rockler has American birch plywood in 3/4" 24"x48" in stock & 1/2" on back order into January- is this a good substitute?
Would the new 7MS work well in the Slim Classic GR dMar-Ken7.3 2v03 cabinet? I used this cabinet for the 7P & it turned out very well. I do keep it out of direct sunlight.
I have 3 sheets of 1/2" Baltic birch I intended to use for the Aplair 7 that I missed buying and now currently unavailable, replaced by the new 7MS.
I veneer 1/4" cherry over the Baltic birch to achieve 3/4" for cabinet density and 3/8" round for the driver opening.
I have not been active on the site since before the Alpair 7 was discontinued & Baltic birch has been hard to find.
Itch'en to start a new speaker project for the Livingroom.
A year ago lost a month apart to the day a father-in-law from Covid & brother-in-law as a collateral death- could not find an open ER due to ER's being too full to see him in time & he bled out from a non Covid health event.
Hope others here have faired better and are in good health.
Thanks in advance. Happy Holidays present & forthcoming....
Also what are people using for cabinet construction since Baltic birch has disappeared from the Market place?
Rockler has American birch plywood in 3/4" 24"x48" in stock & 1/2" on back order into January- is this a good substitute?
Would the new 7MS work well in the Slim Classic GR dMar-Ken7.3 2v03 cabinet? I used this cabinet for the 7P & it turned out very well. I do keep it out of direct sunlight.
I have 3 sheets of 1/2" Baltic birch I intended to use for the Aplair 7 that I missed buying and now currently unavailable, replaced by the new 7MS.
I veneer 1/4" cherry over the Baltic birch to achieve 3/4" for cabinet density and 3/8" round for the driver opening.
I have not been active on the site since before the Alpair 7 was discontinued & Baltic birch has been hard to find.
Itch'en to start a new speaker project for the Livingroom.
A year ago lost a month apart to the day a father-in-law from Covid & brother-in-law as a collateral death- could not find an open ER due to ER's being too full to see him in time & he bled out from a non Covid health event.
Hope others here have faired better and are in good health.
Thanks in advance. Happy Holidays present & forthcoming....
Why not the CGR for the A7ms?
https://frugal-phile.com/boxlib/P10free/CGR-A7ms-plan18-011121.pdf
Only the wide version drawn but feel free to put the driver on any of the 5 sides that don’t have the vent.
dave
https://frugal-phile.com/boxlib/P10free/CGR-A7ms-plan18-011121.pdf
Only the wide version drawn but feel free to put the driver on any of the 5 sides that don’t have the vent.
dave
Note that while A7ms is fairly new, A10m = A10.3 has been around for a long time.
I am guessing that both the A10s were scheduled to become obselete but customer demand nixed that.
dave
I am guessing that both the A10s were scheduled to become obselete but customer demand nixed that.
dave
The goal is 'no void' plywood and during my active build years the only one I had easy access/'reasonable' pricing to is marine grade.
+1 on that. A single 2440mm x 1220mm sheet of entry-level bamboo 3-ply over here costs over £200 + delivery. Not that [allegedly] void-free birch plywood of questionalble origin is much better -same size in 18mm is averaging over £180 a sheet + delivery at the moment, and I can't see that dropping. Granted, it's been a while, but when I last bought some it was lurking around half that price. 🙁
Thus level of ply (with horizontally arrated outer plies), is not as good as quality ply, but potentially worthwhile for the cosmetics.
The minimum bamboo ply should have vertical oriented slices on the outer plys but the stranded/fossilized versions which take the bamboo strands and some sort of binder (epoxy-like) into incrediable stiff, very hard to damage outer plies. Last sheet we got (pre-pandemic) was closing in on $400 4x8 CAD/sheet.
dave