Thanks for the amazing community. After a few years away from the audio world, I wanted to get back into full room sound, not just listening on headphones. I've been lurking for months and really appreciate the insight and help so far! I'm a hobbiest woodworker, so building a kit sounded perfect.
I've got the Adelphos on order from Meniscus, and decided this weekend to start building the cabinets.
For fun I only wanted to use scraps from the shop. Luckily I've got a lot of scraps.
First step, cutting up 18mm baltic birch into too many 1 1/16" strips
Here's all the strips before gluing
The adelphos calls for a 8.5" wide speaker, with 3/4" material - 7" internal. Turns out 10 strips glued together is 7" 1/16 - close enough!
I doubled up some glue-ups since I didn't have that many clamps. Wound up using 20 clamps, of course just proving you can never have enough clamps.
After letting the glue dry, I scraped then thickness planed the panels down to 1" thickness.
Next, I made up the panels for the sides. Had a few nice boards of walnut to use up.
I don't have a jointer so after cutting the boards to rough size I did a quick jointer jig and edge jointed all the boards.
Then I glued up 4 panels, no pics of that, it's boring.
Thinking I may miter the top/front/bottom/back box. Did a test by cutting two of the BB panels, domino for alignment.
And this is why I test! You can see the domino wasn't setup well and cut all the way through in a few spots. Will use 4mm for the final, not 5mm x 30.
Here's a mockup with the walnut panel placed on it
That's when I noticed the corners aren't aligned the way I expect. Here's a macro shot of the bottom of the miter:
After some headscratching, it turns out my cross cut sled is REALLY not square. I have no idea how this happened - it's seemingly been good for a while. But it's also loose and wobbly, not square even to itself anymore, and frankly I'm questioning if I ever made it work in the first place despite having dozens of projects on it. oops.
I think this is all I'll get done this week. Next weekend I'll make a new sled, then make the miters, test it out again. Hopefully the drivers arrive soon and I can start cutting out the holes for them.
I've got the Adelphos on order from Meniscus, and decided this weekend to start building the cabinets.
For fun I only wanted to use scraps from the shop. Luckily I've got a lot of scraps.
First step, cutting up 18mm baltic birch into too many 1 1/16" strips
Here's all the strips before gluing
The adelphos calls for a 8.5" wide speaker, with 3/4" material - 7" internal. Turns out 10 strips glued together is 7" 1/16 - close enough!
I doubled up some glue-ups since I didn't have that many clamps. Wound up using 20 clamps, of course just proving you can never have enough clamps.
After letting the glue dry, I scraped then thickness planed the panels down to 1" thickness.
Next, I made up the panels for the sides. Had a few nice boards of walnut to use up.
I don't have a jointer so after cutting the boards to rough size I did a quick jointer jig and edge jointed all the boards.
Then I glued up 4 panels, no pics of that, it's boring.
Thinking I may miter the top/front/bottom/back box. Did a test by cutting two of the BB panels, domino for alignment.
And this is why I test! You can see the domino wasn't setup well and cut all the way through in a few spots. Will use 4mm for the final, not 5mm x 30.
Here's a mockup with the walnut panel placed on it
That's when I noticed the corners aren't aligned the way I expect. Here's a macro shot of the bottom of the miter:
After some headscratching, it turns out my cross cut sled is REALLY not square. I have no idea how this happened - it's seemingly been good for a while. But it's also loose and wobbly, not square even to itself anymore, and frankly I'm questioning if I ever made it work in the first place despite having dozens of projects on it. oops.
I think this is all I'll get done this week. Next weekend I'll make a new sled, then make the miters, test it out again. Hopefully the drivers arrive soon and I can start cutting out the holes for them.
any update? I have got build plan from meniscus, just start saving some money for the drivers. would be nice to see final one, because it's rarely found on google how it looks
I finished the speakers up back in November. They've been great - very happy with how they turned out. They are currently in a terrible acoustic room and I enjoy them quite a bit. The imaging isn't 'holographic', but I suspect that's a combination of my room and maybe something in my build. Overall very pleased.
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opps just notice this is bookshlef version, I'm building MTM. I already have bookshelf with Dynaudio MW152 + Satori TW29RN-4 but curious about MTM
anyway, your build is amazing, i love to see that plywood grain and that oak side panel looks stunning
anyway, your build is amazing, i love to see that plywood grain and that oak side panel looks stunning
@ktks1
I decided not to continue Adelphos MTM, instead keeping my Dynaudio MW152 + Satori TW29RN-4 with additional 2x24W100 as woofer that already have. cabinet have been ordered to my friend who has cnc machine.
budget for buying 2xMW16P can be saved for my future Dynaudio Esotar2 430
I decided not to continue Adelphos MTM, instead keeping my Dynaudio MW152 + Satori TW29RN-4 with additional 2x24W100 as woofer that already have. cabinet have been ordered to my friend who has cnc machine.
budget for buying 2xMW16P can be saved for my future Dynaudio Esotar2 430