A new Beginning for these blonde cabinets I got from Hammr7 at Ohighway's Fall party 2 years ago!
I believe they originally held Stephens Trusonics (sp?) but those were long gone when I saw the boxes.
When I got them I tossed a pair of JBL 12 inch 2214 woofers in them and stacked a pair of M&K satellites on top,
That was nice but nothing magical, so I shortly put them into basement storage.
I used the M&K satellites to set up a bedroom music system last fall, but the blonde cabinets remained in basement storage.
Last month I heard a pair of restored UREI 813C speakers - they have coaxial 15 with a 2nd 15" helper woofer!!.
I was flat-out amazed at the sound, and imaging of the systems. A lot is also due to the Time Aligned crossover system.
UREI built large, really dense deadened cabinets for them. Heavy cabinets are expensive to ship!
So I did more research on UREI Monitors and discovered they made smaller models - including the 12 inch coaxial based
809 model.
I wanted to investigate further, and last weekend a friend told me about a pair of UREI 809 monitors in WV.
I called and spoke to the seller - turns out he was selling just the drivers and crossovers, no cabinets ...
Tried to figure what I could mount them in for eval purposes - the UREI 12 has the bluefoam covered horn in the center -
so any cabinet I mount them in has to have clearance for that sticking out the front!
Nobody had any reasonable 12 inch cabinets for sale - then I remember the blond cabinets with the bronze grill cloth.
I pulled out the old cabinets, removed the JBL 12 inch woofers, and found out the baffleboard was just screwed into place -
I pulled the curved internal brace and all the screws and was able to remove the bronze grill cloth. I reassembled everything
and figure I'll stuff the lower area under the curved brace full of Dacron to block the "ports" on the front.
They aren't the best cabinets in the world, but they'll fine do while I experiment with the drivers!
Now I just have to wait patiently for my FedEx package of parts!
More pix as the project develops!
And some pictures from the Cabinet thread Nov 2013 - (I put the 5 way banana cups on the bottom)
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=555301
I believe they originally held Stephens Trusonics (sp?) but those were long gone when I saw the boxes.
When I got them I tossed a pair of JBL 12 inch 2214 woofers in them and stacked a pair of M&K satellites on top,
That was nice but nothing magical, so I shortly put them into basement storage.
I used the M&K satellites to set up a bedroom music system last fall, but the blonde cabinets remained in basement storage.
Last month I heard a pair of restored UREI 813C speakers - they have coaxial 15 with a 2nd 15" helper woofer!!.
I was flat-out amazed at the sound, and imaging of the systems. A lot is also due to the Time Aligned crossover system.
UREI built large, really dense deadened cabinets for them. Heavy cabinets are expensive to ship!
So I did more research on UREI Monitors and discovered they made smaller models - including the 12 inch coaxial based
809 model.
I wanted to investigate further, and last weekend a friend told me about a pair of UREI 809 monitors in WV.
I called and spoke to the seller - turns out he was selling just the drivers and crossovers, no cabinets ...
Tried to figure what I could mount them in for eval purposes - the UREI 12 has the bluefoam covered horn in the center -
so any cabinet I mount them in has to have clearance for that sticking out the front!
Nobody had any reasonable 12 inch cabinets for sale - then I remember the blond cabinets with the bronze grill cloth.
I pulled out the old cabinets, removed the JBL 12 inch woofers, and found out the baffleboard was just screwed into place -
I pulled the curved internal brace and all the screws and was able to remove the bronze grill cloth. I reassembled everything
and figure I'll stuff the lower area under the curved brace full of Dacron to block the "ports" on the front.
They aren't the best cabinets in the world, but they'll fine do while I experiment with the drivers!
Now I just have to wait patiently for my FedEx package of parts!
More pix as the project develops!
And some pictures from the Cabinet thread Nov 2013 - (I put the 5 way banana cups on the bottom)
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=555301
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