Fall New England FrankenFest Saturday October 20th, 2018 Sutton MA
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DearSX
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Hello Everyone,
Thank you very much for putting this event together. I've been wanting to go to a meet up for years. Missed the one last time, just found out about this one last week. Glad I was able to make it.
It was great to see the creative choices made to reinvigorate older systems and also create custom speakers. Thanks to Mike R for the great price on the Adcom amp, I've been looking for a good affordable 100+ watt amp to power my 3 way speakers. It really turned up the bass in my system.
Thanks Ken for letting me connect my speakers to your Amp/Streamer and Sub and to the gentlemen who lent me the cables. The friendliness and willingness to share was really what I expected and hoped for from the audio community. Didn't disappoint.
FYI: The speakers I brought are the Volt 6v2
https://www.diysoundgroup.com/volt-6-v2.html
Kind regards,
Carlos
Thank you very much for putting this event together. I've been wanting to go to a meet up for years. Missed the one last time, just found out about this one last week. Glad I was able to make it.
It was great to see the creative choices made to reinvigorate older systems and also create custom speakers. Thanks to Mike R for the great price on the Adcom amp, I've been looking for a good affordable 100+ watt amp to power my 3 way speakers. It really turned up the bass in my system.
Thanks Ken for letting me connect my speakers to your Amp/Streamer and Sub and to the gentlemen who lent me the cables. The friendliness and willingness to share was really what I expected and hoped for from the audio community. Didn't disappoint.
FYI: The speakers I brought are the Volt 6v2
https://www.diysoundgroup.com/volt-6-v2.html
Kind regards,
Carlos
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DearSX
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Thank you, will do!
Hey Carlos, glad I could help. Those Volt 6v2 sounded terrific! I sure hope you decide to keep them out of your car and use them there at home instead. I do suggest you add good binding posts.
Nice meeting you too! Ping me if you've got any further questions about the stuff I had brought or have here at home. I do have one question for you: When I visited the DIY Sound group website and found the kit for the Volt 6v2 earlier today, I was left confused. If you want to build a pair, do you add 2 to the shopping cart or does a quantity of 1 get you a pair? That didn't seem clear to me.
Nice meeting you too! Ping me if you've got any further questions about the stuff I had brought or have here at home. I do have one question for you: When I visited the DIY Sound group website and found the kit for the Volt 6v2 earlier today, I was left confused. If you want to build a pair, do you add 2 to the shopping cart or does a quantity of 1 get you a pair? That didn't seem clear to me.
Interesting possible trend. The very same thing happened at the NY event in September, many left early.
Those little speakers were quite a surprise and impressive! 4 of them with a big sub would make a great TV surround sound setup, as well as for critical listening.Hello Everyone,
Thank you very much for putting this event together. I've been wanting to go to a meet up for years. Missed the one last time, just found out about this one last week. Glad I was able to make it.
It was great to see the creative choices made to reinvigorate older systems and also create custom speakers. Thanks to Mike R for the great price on the Adcom amp, I've been looking for a good affordable 100+ watt amp to power my 3 way speakers. It really turned up the bass in my system.
Thanks Ken for letting me connect my speakers to your Amp/Streamer and Sub and to the gentlemen who lent me the cables. The friendliness and willingness to share was really what I expected and hoped for from the audio community. Didn't disappoint.
FYI: The speakers I brought are the Volt 6v2
https://www.diysoundgroup.com/volt-6-v2.html
Kind regards,
Carlos
Did you take pics during the build?
Glenn
Glenn
CSP?
classicspeakerpages site.
Thanks.
DearSX
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Great to meet you also Ken! I was surprised how well they sounded, I had just put them together right before the meet up. I will probably get another pair for the car. Maybe try the 10" or 8" versions.
They are bought individually. So its $129 or each speaker, then another $15 for the flat pack box. They sell them that way so folks can get odd number of speakers for surround sound.
@Pete B Great to meet you too! Looking forward to hanging with y'll at the next meet up.
If anyone is interested other high end DIY kits are sold here: (no boxex sold unfortunately). This is were I bought my 3 way SB acoustics Kit.
https://meniscusaudio.com/product-category/speaker-kits/
DearSX
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More like put them together than build them
. Only took a few pics of somethings because I was in a rush.: How it was put together:
- I put together the crossover like the diagram instructions that came with the set and soldered the connections together. I looked on you-tube for instructions on how to solder.
- Then I crimped some connectors to the crossover and the speakers.
- Put the back part of the box on the floor and measured up now the others sides would go. Did one side and the top/bottom up with clue and held them together with a corner brace
- Kept wiping excess glue off with a damp microfiber cloth
- Glued and put together the other sides and held them in place with couple of clamps on horizontally
- Wiggled the sides around till they looked very even and straight and let it sit a few hours.
- Glued the front on and put my printer on top of one and my backpack on top of another to push it down.
- Continued wiping excess glue out of the recesses and let boxes sit over night
- In the (late) morning) I pushed in the included speaker port and made holes with my drill for wires out the back of the speaker
- Crimped speaker connectors on some wires and attached them to the speakers and crossover
- Put the crossover in the box and used a small hot glue gun to put it in place (didn't realized screws for the crossover were in the package.
- I put pillow stuffing in the boxes,
- Put the speaker in the box and used 4 of the supplied screws to put it in place
- Tested them on my receiver and headed out to the meet up.
- They get plenty loud with my receiver now that the subs are not connected with their own amp.
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!Hello Everyone,
Thank you very much for putting this event together. I've been wanting to go to a meet up for years. Missed the one last time, just found out about this one last week. Glad I was able to make it.
It was great to see the creative choices made to reinvigorate older systems and also create custom speakers. Thanks to Mike R for the great price on the Adcom amp, I've been looking for a good affordable 100+ watt amp to power my 3 way speakers. It really turned up the bass in my system.
Thanks Ken for letting me connect my speakers to your Amp/Streamer and Sub and to the gentlemen who lent me the cables. The friendliness and willingness to share was really what I expected and hoped for from the audio community. Didn't disappoint.
FYI: The speakers I brought are the Volt 6v2
https://www.diysoundgroup.com/volt-6-v2.html
Kind regards,
Carlos
Carlos,
Great to meet you. Glad the Adcom worked out. thanks for your patience. I would say your speakers were the surprise of the day. Nice job.
Mike
Extension cord and power strips are standard traveling equipment for me. Learned that at Clinton.
DearSX
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Thanks Mike, speakers surprised me too didn't expect them to do so well. Glad I did the research
Amp has a ton of power, I don't think I will need more anytime soon
I had thought to bring a power strip, will add the extension cord. When I got there and helped (a little bit) in rolling out the round tables I thought to look for one near an outlet for that very reason. I got lucky, it was the one unoccupied table near one!
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