After finishing a pair of Martello desktops for my wife's home office using Fountek FR88EX speakers I now have the bug to look at something a bit bigger.
I am looking at building a pair of speakers using Mark Audio Alpair 7ps. Anyone have any suggestions for an enclosure?? I see planet 10 has the Slim Classic GR dMar-Ken7 cabinets. How would these work with these speakers, or is another cabinet be more appropriate? I listen to classical orchestrated, & film score music as well as jazz, might pair these with a tv for a 2 way set up. Any suggestions would be great.
The Martellos work great for tv speakers as well for a small room too.
Thanks, looking forward for the help.
I am looking at building a pair of speakers using Mark Audio Alpair 7ps. Anyone have any suggestions for an enclosure?? I see planet 10 has the Slim Classic GR dMar-Ken7 cabinets. How would these work with these speakers, or is another cabinet be more appropriate? I listen to classical orchestrated, & film score music as well as jazz, might pair these with a tv for a 2 way set up. Any suggestions would be great.
The Martellos work great for tv speakers as well for a small room too.
Thanks, looking forward for the help.
Have you checked out this website Frugal-phile | Box Library / Mark Audio
I like the pensil designs, easy to build and sound really good!
I like the pensil designs, easy to build and sound really good!
Maybe only the Pensils are calculated for A7p. I couldn't find other available dedicated designs. Probably Frugel-Horn enclosure will also work well. I have a pair and probably some day I will put them in pensils mainly for their small footprint and the front vent 🙂
zman, Right now I am considering the Alpair 7p but have not pulled the trigger. I talked to Madisound yesterday, the are considering not sticking the Alpair 7 anymore because of the numerous choices of speakers out there. The planet 10 enclosure I mentioned originally is about the right choice of cabinet size I have in mind. Hoping to find a speaker that sounds best in it. If the 7p works - great, if not which one? keeping a similar price point...Thanks
RWD1958,
Maybe consider the Pluvia 7 HD? My understanding is that P10 has CGR cabinet designs for the Pluvia 7 HD also, which are likely to be in line with your cabinet size preference.
Maybe consider the Pluvia 7 HD? My understanding is that P10 has CGR cabinet designs for the Pluvia 7 HD also, which are likely to be in line with your cabinet size preference.
I haven’t yet got much done for the P7HD, but i am slowly getting the A7/11ms/P7HD tackled.
I have yet to listen to my pair but the P7HD is purported to be a delopment on the A7.3 which should make it very good. It does look like it can take advantage of a slighly larger enclosure then the A7s, but — with changed tuning — will worl in the deciCGR.
dave
I have yet to listen to my pair but the P7HD is purported to be a delopment on the A7.3 which should make it very good. It does look like it can take advantage of a slighly larger enclosure then the A7s, but — with changed tuning — will worl in the deciCGR.
dave
There is also an Alpair 7ms which would work in a 13 litre Classic Golden Ratio, (CGR) box if you are willing to build a box that big. Planet10 could probably modify an existing box to be tuned perfectly for this fairly new driver. I have the larger Alpair 11ms which I think is a really amazing driver. This larger driver will actually work in a smaller box so this could be another consideration.
Dave's speaker, he's the one who'll know. However, since he lives according to the same laws of nature as the rest of the universe, he isn't able to be here 24/7. 😉
The P7phd will go OK into dPlu-Ken7. The box is tuned a bit lower than ideal, and response will drop off a bit sooner than optimum, but it is hard to change the box to increase the tning frequency.
So go for it.
Note: P7phd is closer than CHN-70 in this box (i assume that is what you mean by CHN7). I expect, from the auditoning that i have done so far, that p7phd will have similar voicing to CHN-70 but with higher DDR/resolution.
dave
So go for it.
Note: P7phd is closer than CHN-70 in this box (i assume that is what you mean by CHN7). I expect, from the auditoning that i have done so far, that p7phd will have similar voicing to CHN-70 but with higher DDR/resolution.
dave
Just fitted p7phd initial impressions better imaging,wait now for a 100 or so Hrs to see what happens in the bass department.will report back in a week or so
Cabinet design
I pulled the trigger on a pair of Alpair 7P's What cabinet design did you use? Pensil 12 or Slim Classic GR dMar-Ken 7.3_3?
I pulled the trigger on a pair of Alpair 7P's What cabinet design did you use? Pensil 12 or Slim Classic GR dMar-Ken 7.3_3?
I’d put A7p in the Pensil 7p not the one for the A12. The Pensil & the CGR are very different applications. Neither is a bad choice.
dave
dave
What type of internal bracing for the 7P if any? & tonally what would the difference be between the CGR and the Pensil 7P. The plan is to use the speakers for movies/tv & classical music in a stereo set up in a small bedroom.
How specific are the dimension ratios for this enclosure?
I would like to increase width to 180mm and decrease depth to 260mm to compensate as it would make part of the building process slightly easier and the speaker slightly shallower.
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