Fonken 125wk Build
A bit of a long story here, I went out on my own building 125wk boxes, actually built 7 boxes, not counting the pair in the pic. I tried different sizes and tuning frequencies.
The 1st pair was too small, sounded thin, jumped up a couple of liters and picked up some bass, but still not right.
I threw in the towel and contacted david@planet10-hifi.com and he had designed a Fonken for this driver (pic).
In a word Wow! Much better than anything that I came up with, a lot better; crystal clear sound, warm and throaty bass. The P10 plans were excellent, easy to follow; I did enlarge the plans full scale on a copier (recommend).
For comparison, I do have two pairs of 120FXs in different boxes; I cannot listen to all the songs on a CD, some will sound off-wall-fantastic, but others are a little sour. I do think a tube amp would help (using a sansui 7070).
This last pair is unbelievable: not an expensive build, easy to follow plans, sound fantastic - without being selective and using a transistor amp [Rotel, RB 980BX].
A bit of a long story here, I went out on my own building 125wk boxes, actually built 7 boxes, not counting the pair in the pic. I tried different sizes and tuning frequencies.
The 1st pair was too small, sounded thin, jumped up a couple of liters and picked up some bass, but still not right.
I threw in the towel and contacted david@planet10-hifi.com and he had designed a Fonken for this driver (pic).
In a word Wow! Much better than anything that I came up with, a lot better; crystal clear sound, warm and throaty bass. The P10 plans were excellent, easy to follow; I did enlarge the plans full scale on a copier (recommend).
For comparison, I do have two pairs of 120FXs in different boxes; I cannot listen to all the songs on a CD, some will sound off-wall-fantastic, but others are a little sour. I do think a tube amp would help (using a sansui 7070).
This last pair is unbelievable: not an expensive build, easy to follow plans, sound fantastic - without being selective and using a transistor amp [Rotel, RB 980BX].
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Neither can I, but it's not the speakers.
Nice work BTW.
jeff
dude, as you can recall from the weekend, even on vinyl some albums are a waste of stylus wear
Doug: glad you're happy
tys
Blatantly obvious wasn't it. Sadly, there are others, such is the pop/rock music scene these days.
jeff
Hey Dave, any idea who these belonged to? More to the point, I have a pair of Fostex FE108E Sigmas that need a home in a small box. I was thinking Fonken from the get-go and stumbled on one of your posts and plans for a MilliFonken, plan dated from '07, variation ov7. Did you get a chance to measure this at all? Just curious more than practically concerned, I plan to use these in my travel trailer where space is small and I don't require critical listening.
TIA and best wishes,
Lance
A fellow from Luxenbourg i believe
There is a mFonken108. We've not built it. It will have somewhat limited bass.
dave
Thanks for the reply. The mFonken 4.5 l cabinet plan is identical to the millifonken plan I referenced previously. I guess I'll build them and see how it sounds, I'm not looking for a lot of bass just a clear breath of air when I get tired of the other set of speakers in the RV. Also, it will give me a new candidate for my newly acquired measurement gear. I'll post up some pictures when they are mounted in the RV, the Cowboy Hilton.
mFonken is a milliFonken, and is 4.5 litre. Tuning is different for the FE108eS than for the mFonken's FE127. Same shell, different tuning
dave
My Personal µFonken SET
"cooper/dusty orange" FF85wKeN installed. Beautiful, and pretty good sounding.
Bespoke, unique solid wood art builds similar to these and Bernie's Locust pair are going to be offered to those willing to pay a premium for a functional art-piece.
Bernie is working on the woofTs to match this pair, using 2 4" Peerless in a Woden designed ML-TL. They will be the same footprint and act as 32" tall stands. Will relieve the FF85 from the heavy lifting and should extend LF down to where a subwoofer(s) can be added for a truly full-range system
"cooper/dusty orange" FF85wKeN installed. Beautiful, and pretty good sounding.
Bespoke, unique solid wood art builds similar to these and Bernie's Locust pair are going to be offered to those willing to pay a premium for a functional art-piece.
Bernie is working on the woofTs to match this pair, using 2 4" Peerless in a Woden designed ML-TL. They will be the same footprint and act as 32" tall stands. Will relieve the FF85 from the heavy lifting and should extend LF down to where a subwoofer(s) can be added for a truly full-range system
Need to finish my monolithic version! Cabs are done sans bracing, now taking ages to mount the drivers and connect the hook up wire...
Haven't you repurposed your Mar-Ken12T cabs? Or you still have a set?