Hey Scott and Dmason,
Just checking if you received the emails I sent through this site? I haven't got a reply reply and don't know if I'm enabled for that sort of thing!
Dmason it was in regards to fostex fx200.
Cheers Stroop
Just checking if you received the emails I sent through this site? I haven't got a reply reply and don't know if I'm enabled for that sort of thing!
Dmason it was in regards to fostex fx200.
Cheers Stroop
Ping Scottmoose
Maaan, trying to reproduce a live guitar? (You suggested that crazy idea some postings ago) - what kind of pills did your doc give you to cure your cold, and, in 60s speak "gimmesome"!
Pit
Maaan, trying to reproduce a live guitar? (You suggested that crazy idea some postings ago) - what kind of pills did your doc give you to cure your cold, and, in 60s speak "gimmesome"!
Pit
stroop said:
'fraid not, though Hotmail's been mucking me about recently. If you can resend, we'll take it up.
Scott
http://www.zillaspeak.com/bib-godzillabib.asp
I have been making progress! When I stood the speaker up it looked amazing. I feel like I’ve built a musical instrument rather than a speaker cabinet. Three coats of poly on the front baffles and base molding and the drivers go in. My goal is to fire them up Thursday.
• Cat 5 cable – hope this was not a mistake.
• Mixture of particle board, ply and pine.
• Front baffle tripled up (to fit driver magnet!)
• Rear baffle doubled up just for fun
• Tweeter on back - .47uf cap on RS super tweeter
Last night all I could think of was TC as I sanded, stained and glued the front baffles on.
Godzilla
I have been making progress! When I stood the speaker up it looked amazing. I feel like I’ve built a musical instrument rather than a speaker cabinet. Three coats of poly on the front baffles and base molding and the drivers go in. My goal is to fire them up Thursday.
• Cat 5 cable – hope this was not a mistake.
• Mixture of particle board, ply and pine.
• Front baffle tripled up (to fit driver magnet!)
• Rear baffle doubled up just for fun
• Tweeter on back - .47uf cap on RS super tweeter
Last night all I could think of was TC as I sanded, stained and glued the front baffles on.
Godzilla
Niiiiccccce. 🙂 Very good work indeed Jeff. I like. Oh yes indeed, I like. Terry would have loved these -looks like you've put everything you had into them, especially the baffles -teriffic finish. Pine again, right? Great material for horns. Much under-rated IMO. With the ply sides and the particle-board inners, you should be on a real winner there. The Cat5 should be fine.
One idea I gather Terry had, but never actually did, was to do a generic cabinet, with a driver cut-out large enough for any 5-7in unit, so you could play at driver-rolling, the way people do with tubes. You've taken a big step in that direction with these.
Scott
One idea I gather Terry had, but never actually did, was to do a generic cabinet, with a driver cut-out large enough for any 5-7in unit, so you could play at driver-rolling, the way people do with tubes. You've taken a big step in that direction with these.
Scott
Pine again is correct! I used to search for the cleanest pine boards at Home Depot but now I look for boards with interesting character – for example, knots and swirls in the grain. Stain brings those boards to life. Make sure they are not warped!
To make this build easier the box was built separate from the front baffles, which are simply two pine boards sanded smooth. The base molding is simply 1 x 4 pine boards screwed into place.
Tonight the first coat of poly goes on… tomorrow morning the second… tomorrow eve the third and then a final coat of black paint on the back of the box. Then the drivers go in, both BIBs wrapped in blankets and carefully placed into my Land Rover for delivery to the office. The Pioneer/Piezo’s have been living there for several months. Nothing wrong with them, it’s just time for a change!
Peace,
Godzilla
To make this build easier the box was built separate from the front baffles, which are simply two pine boards sanded smooth. The base molding is simply 1 x 4 pine boards screwed into place.
Tonight the first coat of poly goes on… tomorrow morning the second… tomorrow eve the third and then a final coat of black paint on the back of the box. Then the drivers go in, both BIBs wrapped in blankets and carefully placed into my Land Rover for delivery to the office. The Pioneer/Piezo’s have been living there for several months. Nothing wrong with them, it’s just time for a change!
Peace,
Godzilla
Godzilla,
Great work... Doubling up the front panels is an elegant solution indeed for large magnet depths.
You gonna mount them BIBs in corners or near rear walls? Won't the backfiring supertweets 'reflect' too much without damping the rear walls?
fred
Great work... Doubling up the front panels is an elegant solution indeed for large magnet depths.
You gonna mount them BIBs in corners or near rear walls? Won't the backfiring supertweets 'reflect' too much without damping the rear walls?
fred
I'm having a thought for a 2 driver bib that would let me minimize the horizontal profile (while maximizing WAF).
They would need to go up against the sides of my big oak entertainment center, so they'll be 6' tall and 18" deep, but I'm thinking to minimize the baffle to 5.5" wide (4" board with the edges of the 18" side panels). That would give me internal dims of 4"x16.5"x71.25". That should give me a line length of about 126" and an opening of 66" (though I could chop down the back to increase the opening size or I could flip them to floor load and increase the mouth opening that way, though either will shorten the line).
Anyway, I'm thinking to put a Fostex FE87e on the front baffle, full range in the 21% line position (or 41% if inverted), and then put something like a Dayton DC160 in the 41% line position, but mounted in the the side panel a la Hempster Monolith (or the 21% position if inverted).
Any thoughts as to how well this might work? I'm trying to determine if this might be a better compromise (better WAF, lower cost, comparable bass extension ) to a bit wider baffle and a more expensive 6.5"+ Fostex driver.
Kensai
They would need to go up against the sides of my big oak entertainment center, so they'll be 6' tall and 18" deep, but I'm thinking to minimize the baffle to 5.5" wide (4" board with the edges of the 18" side panels). That would give me internal dims of 4"x16.5"x71.25". That should give me a line length of about 126" and an opening of 66" (though I could chop down the back to increase the opening size or I could flip them to floor load and increase the mouth opening that way, though either will shorten the line).
Anyway, I'm thinking to put a Fostex FE87e on the front baffle, full range in the 21% line position (or 41% if inverted), and then put something like a Dayton DC160 in the 41% line position, but mounted in the the side panel a la Hempster Monolith (or the 21% position if inverted).
Any thoughts as to how well this might work? I'm trying to determine if this might be a better compromise (better WAF, lower cost, comparable bass extension ) to a bit wider baffle and a more expensive 6.5"+ Fostex driver.
Kensai
Greets!
Well, it would work fine in that it would be entertaining in a perverted sort of way watching the high excursion 'sub' driver's pressure waves destruction test the big tweeter's suspension.........
Even if my SWAG turns out to be a gross exaggeration, I'm betting the modulation would audibly 'color' (distort) the tweeter's output to an unacceptable level.
GM
Well, it would work fine in that it would be entertaining in a perverted sort of way watching the high excursion 'sub' driver's pressure waves destruction test the big tweeter's suspension.........
Even if my SWAG turns out to be a gross exaggeration, I'm betting the modulation would audibly 'color' (distort) the tweeter's output to an unacceptable level.
GM
When I finalize toe in, I'll put the spikes in and level them out. They'll also scoot into the corners another inch or two.
pj
pj
Great looking BIB pj! It makes your wife look 4 feet tall. She’s a cutie too and she must love you lots to let you put that thing in the house. Your dog looks tiny! In the first picture there seems to be a very large insect to the bottom left of your speaker! Maybe it lives in the BIB?!? I like the colorful jazz painting too.
GM,
Thanks for the Definitely don't have budget for failures like that. Just desperate to find a project that would actually be an all around upgrade to my existing mains in the living room.
So what would be the effect of dropping an FE107 or FE127 into such a cabinet? The mouth should be fine, but the length is considerably greater.
pjanda,
Those things are beautiful
Kensai
Thanks for the
Definitely don't have budget for failures like that. Just desperate to find a project that would actually be an all around upgrade to my existing mains in the living room.So what would be the effect of dropping an FE107 or FE127 into such a cabinet? The mouth should be fine, but the length is considerably greater.
pjanda,
Those things are beautiful
Kensai
GM said:Greets!
Well, it would work fine in that it would be entertaining in a perverted sort of way watching the high excursion 'sub' driver's pressure waves destruction test the big tweeter's suspension.........
GM
Kensai, you could modify the design somewhat and seal the Fe87 in the short pointy closed end. Course, then you'd have a different line length... but it should be "sim-able".
Enjoying Terry Cain's genius!
I read this board constantly,have been registered for a while, but have never posted before. I just buttoned up a pair of BIB's. I just have some sanding an staining to finish them. I chose to build these for my music room based on the simplicity and amount of work everyone has been pouring into them. I have drooled over TC's work for a while, and read nearly every word Godzilla and Scottmoose have written (thanks for being thourough and so involved guys). Anyway, I found out about TC this morning. And all i could think about was how just last monday night, I stayed up too late, sitting on the couch and just soaking up what my BIB's could do. And I remember thinking to myself: Damn,Terry Cain is a genius! I wish his family well. I am glad someone like him has been around to guide the rest of us in a great direction.
And i have decided to stain my BIB's in a similar fashion to some of TC's monumental projects just a min memorial of a great inventor I admire, Wish we could have met, But did in a round about way.
I read this board constantly,have been registered for a while, but have never posted before. I just buttoned up a pair of BIB's. I just have some sanding an staining to finish them. I chose to build these for my music room based on the simplicity and amount of work everyone has been pouring into them. I have drooled over TC's work for a while, and read nearly every word Godzilla and Scottmoose have written (thanks for being thourough and so involved guys). Anyway, I found out about TC this morning. And all i could think about was how just last monday night, I stayed up too late, sitting on the couch and just soaking up what my BIB's could do. And I remember thinking to myself: Damn,Terry Cain is a genius! I wish his family well. I am glad someone like him has been around to guide the rest of us in a great direction.
And i have decided to stain my BIB's in a similar fashion to some of TC's monumental projects just a min memorial of a great inventor I admire, Wish we could have met, But did in a round about way.