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Baffle will be made of solid Curly'd Maple, cab's Maple veneer on 18mm MDF, decorated with solid Mahogany fillets. Cabinets are finished with 2-component high-gloss clear laque.

Fillets will be glued into side, and top panels, for that reason I had to cut panels with a 3,2x4mm stripe. This is done by using the pre-sawing blade on my table saw, as pictured right.

Fillets are made of solid Mahogany, and glued into the pre-cut holes. After this is done, the surplus is sanded till a smooth surface is made. On the front edges of the baffle, I also made Mahogany fillets.

 

 

 

After sanding and spraying the fillets will look like this....

Pre-assembled X-over boards are made on a 4mm triplex scratch plate. It can just enter the woofer hole, as can be seen below.

The bass reflex pipe measures 46 x 110 mm>>>

X-overs are mounted on the rear panel, and will fit just between the bass reflex port and the bottom plate. The X-overs are covered with MDM-3 damping material, and I filled approximately 1/3 of the inner volume of the cabinets with it. Avoid closing the bass port!

 

Today (2 oktober 2008) my 3/4" Soft Dome Hiquphon tweeters arrived. This OW1 tweeters ,are matched within 0,5dB from 2-20kHz, and have their own serial number. This is a true High-End tweeter, with excellent qualities. They come with original data curves, as part of the package.

Mechanical data, slightly smaller then common tweeters:

OD: 94mm  ID: 68.5mm  Flange:3.7mm

                                                                       

 

After removal of the safety labels, the loudspeakers are ready for use....Now it's time to build some nice looking stands for these monitors.

I've made a pair of stands, made of  2 solid aluminum pipes, mounted on solid aluminum plates. Ad 2 Mahogany sheets of wood, and laque'd the metal stands black, and give the Mahogany a clear varnish surface.

Height:    665mm

Depth:    270mm

Widht:    210mm

Weight:   9 kg/each

On the local DIY market I found these conic cups made of brass. Just what I needed to mount underneath the bottom plates, to use as spikes. Outer diameter measures 16mm.

The clear varnish layers, just give these woods a                                                      

nice warm appearance....

Loudspeaker cabinets measure HxDxW=300x250x190mm

Weight: 8 kg/each

When I sold my walnut version of this monitor loudspeaker, I knew I would build a second pair of these gorgeous sounding speakers one day...

Well, this is it, packed in a light colored Maple coat, in combination with Mahogany fillets. You may have notished, I love this wood combination, as I used to build many cabinets out of this combination.

For those who are interested in building this loudspeaker, I have some (empty) cabinets for sale. Mainly build out of Walnut, and Cherry. Please feel free to ask on details.

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