Zonker92
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Just Finished! C36 Viscount LE14A eWaves
OK, just fired these up and am quite pleased. The pictures should be pretty self-explanatory.
I bought empty cabinets on Craigslist; looks like someone re-veneered them at some point. They still had the slots in the bottoms for grills, so I filled them with MDF inserts and veneered the slots (see the photo further below, with the drivers face-down on the baffles). The new grills are kits from Parts Express and the cloth came from JoAnne Fabrics.
Resistors are Mills. Erse Super-Q inductors. Jantzen Standard caps bypassed with Vishays (added later). wiredbecker most kindly hooked me up with jackgiff's schematic.
LE14A woofers with fresh surrounds, and D220Ti compression drivers on Pyle waveguides. Fresh "JBL oil" on the cabinets, after lightly sanding them.
The four-inch ports are from Parts Express. I have them held together with electrical tape so we can play with the lengths, but right now the bass sounds really good at 8.5".
I refinished the backs and added new baffles (plywood and MDF sandwiches) over the old ones. New fiberglass, just for fun.
Legs are new, from a furniture supply place (alphafurnishings).
Graphics thanks to Dumptruck! And thanks, too, to Zilch, wiredbecker, GordonW, djnagle, Joe L, and everyone else who helped me!
OK, just fired these up and am quite pleased. The pictures should be pretty self-explanatory.
I bought empty cabinets on Craigslist; looks like someone re-veneered them at some point. They still had the slots in the bottoms for grills, so I filled them with MDF inserts and veneered the slots (see the photo further below, with the drivers face-down on the baffles). The new grills are kits from Parts Express and the cloth came from JoAnne Fabrics.
Resistors are Mills. Erse Super-Q inductors. Jantzen Standard caps bypassed with Vishays (added later). wiredbecker most kindly hooked me up with jackgiff's schematic.
LE14A woofers with fresh surrounds, and D220Ti compression drivers on Pyle waveguides. Fresh "JBL oil" on the cabinets, after lightly sanding them.
The four-inch ports are from Parts Express. I have them held together with electrical tape so we can play with the lengths, but right now the bass sounds really good at 8.5".
I refinished the backs and added new baffles (plywood and MDF sandwiches) over the old ones. New fiberglass, just for fun.
Legs are new, from a furniture supply place (alphafurnishings).
Graphics thanks to Dumptruck! And thanks, too, to Zilch, wiredbecker, GordonW, djnagle, Joe L, and everyone else who helped me!
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