It's not easy being green -- just pictures

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Note: this thread is the picture posts extracted from this active thread http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/planet-10-hifi/166518-its-not-easy-being-green-apologies-kermit.html


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

 

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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

 

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Gold on gold Alpair6eN

Black with White Spots FE206eN

dave

 

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

dave

 

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Natural w Black FE126eN (with dustcap accident recovery), Silver CHR70eN, FE103A natural w black

dave

 

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Just off the bench:

FE126eN^2 -- 1st of the new Fostex FE126En with EnABL2 (and a fancy colour)

And a customer's set of FF165KeN out of a set of Super Abbey's in a more conservative scheme:

dave

 

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A couple more.

FE126eN that will go into RonHorn A126 as computer speakers

And Mark Audio #6/CSS EL166 midbasses (a matching set of FF85KeN slots in between)

dave

 

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The 1st set of Alpair12eN (off to Greece):

And a set of FE207eN (target was to get the spots to match the plugs):

dave

 

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One of my favourite experiments, my personal FE126eN until they met an untimely end at this year's diyFEST

The most popular colour scheme Natural with Brown modeled by an FE127eN

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/atta...ual-vancouver-island-diyfest-2010-fe126en.jpg

And a variation on the second most popular Natural with Black, with a contrasting dustcap (experimental FE126En)

dave

 

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FF85KeN in its normal clour scheme:

And an experiment in Black with grey

dave

 

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I haven't yet posted the most commonly requested colour schemes (where colour is an option).

Most popular by far is natural with brown -- it works well with natural wood or veneer.

and then quite a ways back, natural with black.

 

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With naturally white cones a distant 3rd is black with white or grey. Cones that start out black usually end up with this colour scheme too.

 

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Another fairly popular, and more subtle, colour scheme is natural w light grey.

Here on an FF165K

and on FF85K

 

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except yours will look more like this colour-wize

 

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A couple more;

light blue with yellow (not possible with new FE126En -- the robin's egg blue comes out lime green)

and natural with red

dave

 

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FE206eN^2

 

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Merrill DCA5.5

 

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The last of the FE207eN.

 

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Tangband W8-1808, Natural with light Grey

 

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Th 1st of the FE166eN^2. Natural w Copper.