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It's not easy being green (apologies to Kermit)

frugal-phile™
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One of the nice things about the white Fostex cones is that they can be made almost any colour... here is a recent set i did for a client in NY.

Green-on-green-FE126e.jpg


She likes these better than her TB 1772 (both sonically & cosmetically). I expect the TB to land here soon for the same treatment.

Here is a robin's egg blue FE126. These are in the UK now... they are pre-EnABL.

blue-fe126-onMoss-tn.jpg


Another shade of blue... pretreated (and matched) for the client to do their own EnABL

nigel-hall-blue-preTreat-FE.jpg


More to follow.

dave
 
frugal-phile™
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Quite a lot of experimentation went into these mods... what comes out the other end is quite a bit better than stock.

The materials added go add mass, not much but enuff to lower Fs & efficiency a bit. But a change in the weather can make a bigger difference. Materials added remain flexible Except for the trifoil ring -- it has the specific purpose of disrupting the 7k resonance that exists in the stock driver. Flexation thou is more controlled -- or at least it would seem from the lowering of the noise floor.

dave
 
As carefully engineered as the Fostex seems to be, wouldn't you worry about adding mass or stiffening the cone by applying.....anything?


-Dipole Fostex Front Horn-..<<<<Youtube...

______________________________________________________Rick.....
After owning several pairs of eNABled drivers, a la P-10, there's no worries at all.
The end result is superior, IMHO.
Not surprising, as the Fostex designed cabinets can be improved on as well.
Anyone ever asked for a refund, Dave?
Don
 
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Here are a couple more examples.

This one is an experiment to see about blending 2 colours together to get a gradient... i didn't suceed but learned a lot and still ended up with a pretty set of drivers (we have just built a special set of mFonken to house these (for our Fostex archives)

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A set of light blue with purple spots:

Carey-blue-wPurple.jpg


One more for tonight. A client had his DCA4 sent directly here. He wanted Maroon with yellow spots. I drove a maroon Jaguar for awhile. I used that as a colour reference. He loves them.

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dave
 
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