Good plan, even at its recent huge price hike it's still a relative bargain considering they're hand crafted from new tooling and having owned 604E back when it came out, recommend the Super E is a fair price once AlNiCo's high price is factored in if driven with a SET tube amp for the HF, high end PP tube or class A/B with modest DF < ~80 for the woofer.
Beware buying used for too many reasons to elaborate as it's a 'minefield' of 'misunderstanding', especially on epay, FB [forum rules preclude me from being more truthful].
Beware buying used for too many reasons to elaborate as it's a 'minefield' of 'misunderstanding', especially on epay, FB [forum rules preclude me from being more truthful].
I have a feeling this might do what you need. It's the 604 8H with a helper woofer from CSS. It gives you just what you are describing as far as musical value. And, I agree with you, no matter how many things are 'wrong' about this set up, some of the so called 'better' speakers can't touch them.
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Terrible material for building speakers and yes, i believe it has a direction… perpendicular to the surface not parallel with it.
With MDF you already have to be considerably thicker. ie 18mm quality ply equivalent would probably be on the order of 45mm.
dave
Right, it's considered to have a homogeneous mixture [~uniform particle density same as the air molecules in a typical speaker box], so we're normally only interested in its [and other panel material's] MOE spec, with high psi numbers for the LF combined with bracing to raise the box's resonance ~ an octave above the XO point; otherwise it needs to be really massive to 'push' its resonance well below speaker's lower pass band.
For example: What MDF thickness is acceptable?
It always has been.
If you are one that does not realize it, you have been swayed by the superb work done by many marketing dept.
MDF’s only asset is that it is CHEAP (except to ship).
dave
You would have to make walls considerably thicker. But varying the wal thicknesse might achiev emuch the same.Braces seen in most translams (as part of one of the slices, is more or less useless, proper bracing would require separate braces running perpendicualr to the translam layers.
dave
Does 15" coax and 18" woofer qualify as big?
These are handmade Finnish Taipuu speakers, it's not a kit, but could serve as food for thoughts? Acoustic design by VituixMan kimmosto himself! If I remember right, coax is BMS, they use dsp and built-in amps.
These are handmade Finnish Taipuu speakers, it's not a kit, but could serve as food for thoughts? Acoustic design by VituixMan kimmosto himself! If I remember right, coax is BMS, they use dsp and built-in amps.
Nice. Thanks for the link.
Every material has its appropriate use. I bet you would have a hard time telling the difference between MDF and Plywood if both cabinets were properly built with a proper use of each material.
Also there are extreme differences in MDF/HDF quality.
For example MDF is used as a wasteboard on CNC routers but you need "the worst" quality of MDF for that in order to get a decent airflow and believe me its not easy to get a consistency in this department. Quality can vary between shipments and varies greatly between manufacturers.
I agree. Only difference the usual translam braces could do is if they were fixed to the baffle making it more stiff. But they wont prevent any delamination or anything.
These are real nice. Exactly my cup of tea.
Those are nice speakers. BMS 15C262 and BMS 18N862 paired with FourAudio 3-way active DSP plate amp.
Those would be nice in-wall or soffit mounted.
I would rather suffer the issues of a large coax than a small one. All small coax I've heard sounded shouty and never quite right - in the end the were annoying. I exclude the auto sound coaxes with dome tweeter and minimal crossovers. But the small pro sound style coaxes have never convinced me.
YMMV
audition a well broken in Tannoy Revolution XT series DC with paper cones. I have both the XT6 and the smallest model the XT Mini. Note both will require a sub no surprises there. Of the the two models I prefer the XT Mini as it stages and images just a little bit better than the larger 6" version. These are exceptional loudspeakers once they burn in. Will they play loud enough to meet your needs? If the answer is yes you may be very surprised.
