Thought to share my project with you building a 5.1 HT using L1230 fronts and custom Center/Surround speakers. I'm holding off the build specs and pics of them together in a promise I made to Richard So, in case he wanted to feature them in his Gallery at his web site.
These pics were pre-polished. I need to go back and add a 3" Oak back strap to the Surrounds. I used Oak because of two reasons. I wasn't trying to duplicate ADS with walnut wood trim, and I like the grain of the oak personally. Long after I'm gone, I don't want someone trying to do endless searches for ADS L810 with oak trim ... not forgetting to mention a Center and Surrounds.
The end result is amazing .. to me at least. I chose the L810 because the speakers were the same part numbers as my L1230's. The match is as close as you can get to the fronts. I still like 2 channel when I'm listening to music, but after replacing my Yamaha RX-V2700 with the Yamaha Avantage RX-A3070, I'm now able to appreciate music in 5.1 when I can't sit in front of the speakers.
Hope you enjoy these pics folks. I'm only way too happy to discuss the project. So that it's said, thank you very much for the couple of years of lurking these threads so that I could learn ever so much more from so many of you.
Garry~
These pics were pre-polished. I need to go back and add a 3" Oak back strap to the Surrounds. I used Oak because of two reasons. I wasn't trying to duplicate ADS with walnut wood trim, and I like the grain of the oak personally. Long after I'm gone, I don't want someone trying to do endless searches for ADS L810 with oak trim ... not forgetting to mention a Center and Surrounds.
The end result is amazing .. to me at least. I chose the L810 because the speakers were the same part numbers as my L1230's. The match is as close as you can get to the fronts. I still like 2 channel when I'm listening to music, but after replacing my Yamaha RX-V2700 with the Yamaha Avantage RX-A3070, I'm now able to appreciate music in 5.1 when I can't sit in front of the speakers.
Hope you enjoy these pics folks. I'm only way too happy to discuss the project. So that it's said, thank you very much for the couple of years of lurking these threads so that I could learn ever so much more from so many of you.
Garry~