Many years ago I built a pair of Lynn Olsen’s Ariel 6c transmission line speakers. I fed them with LR4 active crossovers and a 4-channel chip amp. I have just replaced these with a pair of Siegfried Linkwitz’s excellent LX Minis, so I have a surplus pair of Ariels.
My teenage son wants a pair of speakers but the Ariels are way too big for his room. So I’m considering two options:
1. Covert the Ariels to ME2’s. This would simply require trimming the bottom and back off the Ariels, performing some internal surgery and fitting a new back and bottom. The advantage of this is I get to use the existing drivers, crossovers and front/side panels. The disadvantage is they will have even less bass than the Ariels, which I always felt lacked adequate bass.
2. Keeping the expensive Scan-Speak D2905/9500 tweeters, buying a pair of woofers and building a pair of 2-way speakers. I don’t have the knowledge or time to design my own speakers. They don’t need to be audiophile speakers- just “good”. Can anyone suggest a proven 2-way design that would take my Scan-Speak tweeters?
Regards,
Chris
My teenage son wants a pair of speakers but the Ariels are way too big for his room. So I’m considering two options:
1. Covert the Ariels to ME2’s. This would simply require trimming the bottom and back off the Ariels, performing some internal surgery and fitting a new back and bottom. The advantage of this is I get to use the existing drivers, crossovers and front/side panels. The disadvantage is they will have even less bass than the Ariels, which I always felt lacked adequate bass.
2. Keeping the expensive Scan-Speak D2905/9500 tweeters, buying a pair of woofers and building a pair of 2-way speakers. I don’t have the knowledge or time to design my own speakers. They don’t need to be audiophile speakers- just “good”. Can anyone suggest a proven 2-way design that would take my Scan-Speak tweeters?
Regards,
Chris