Alpair Pensil 10p Build - and Questions

Zia

Its already built. Now its irreversible from a structural point of view. Can i adjust this error by changing the polyfill or something. And one thing to consider is that i di dont have braces inside so whatever volume the braces was supposed to take is freed up for me.
 
Berly,

Sorry for the confusion - I did not realize that the cabinets were fully built, and was thinking that you are still in the middle of assembly / gluing up process.

Since the cabinets are fully built, nothing much to do construction wise. 🙂

Have you started playing music with them? My wild a**ed guess is that they shorter line length and reduced cabinet volume will result in a few Hz less extension, a bit of bass bump, and maybe some more ripple (which stuffing can probably help with).
 
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Please refer to the attached graphic - this Pensil 11 plan shows the internal height as 965 mm.

Please don’t. That one is incorrect. Material thickness is too high for the designed terminus (18-20mm deep). I will remove it.

This is the right drawing. For both Alpair 11ms and Pluvia 11.

https://frugal-phile.com/boxlib/pensils/PensilA11-P11.pdf

MA has, unfortunatly publlished alot of Scott’s stuff that isn’t really ready for prime time, that this one has been habging around for half a decade is unencouraging.

dave
 
I followed the latest plan only.
But messed up the internal height as i was explaining to zia.

Is there any indirect fix to it. Maybe adding an extra piece inside the cabinet perpendicular to the port to increase effective length of transmission line is a solution..?
 
What ive got to so far.
 

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Now im waiting for mark audio to directly ship a pair of 11ms from china because as of now there is no dealer in UAE and closest dealer in india doesnt do international shipping.

Will keep you guys updated on the progress.

Zia and dave thanks alot for the help.
Zia maybe we can meet up some day when i have a layover in dakha.

Until then take care
 
Berly,

Sounds great and please give me a heads up when you are headed this way. 🙂

If you haven't already ordered from Mark Audio directly, you can also check with Stefan of KJF Audio who are based in the UK. They might be able to ship you from the UK, and that might be closer vs China.

Take care.
 
Gentlemen. Ive got the drivers with me and installed on the box.

Warming up right now. So i thought of measuring the room response pre warmup and got a complex freq response graph. Above 150 hz i can pretty much see the similar response as mark audio published. But from 70hz to 150hz there is significant drop in the graph. Below 70 hz the bass is very linear until 40hz and then drops in a slope.

Any idea what would be the contributing factors to 70hz to 150hz drop. Can it be the warmup of drivers.

I will make another measurement tonight after around 10 hours.
 

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