specialidiot
Break Glass, Smoke Lucky
I love my office system, but the Sequerra monitors need a little help down low. My office is pretty small, only 9x9 with one large window, wood floors, and plaster walls. Since I compete for TV and listening time in the living room with my wife and daughter, I'm usually holed up in here listening to tunes or watching movies or TV off of my mac mini.
I'd been watching CL for a small sub, then while browsing PE's projects page I decided to build the Triska Sub.
Ordering was easy, the 70 watt plate amp, 2 passives and the 8" woofer, as well as a small sheet of egg crate foam took only a few clicks and $108. I bought a full sheet of 3/4" MDF at Home Depot for $18 and ejfud (Gary) gladly cut them to size for me.
Other stuff I bought: 15 8-32x3/4" black wood screws to attach the woofer and PRs, rubber "feet" for the bottom, and some speaker caulk form Midwest Speaker in St Paul.
The box itself is 13" square, pretty small. Here it is in clamps, glued and screwed. I used corner clamps on top, and one of the end caps on the bottom to keep it square to the world.
Once I added the end caps, I cut the openings with a jig saw according to the template provided. I wasn't too worried about accuracy but I did have to hog out the plate amp opening a bit to get a proper fit.
I painted it using a textured Rustoleum rattle can thing. Looking back I should have used something else, the texture grabs dust and lint like crazy. You can see the sawdust remnants in the finished pics.
All that was left was to screw in the plate amp, passives, and woofer. ShawnA (designer of the sub) provided some email assistance in adding mass to the PRs. Just add 8 washers to an M5 screw and locktite them in.
I've been listening to it for about 45 minutes now, using the pre-amp out of my Bel Canto to feed the plate amp. No, it doesn't thump, but I now have the right amount of bottom to my tunes!
Total time, about 3 hours. Total cost, about $150.
Thanks to Gary for the MDF cuts, and the listening session of his Curly Cornwalls!
I'd been watching CL for a small sub, then while browsing PE's projects page I decided to build the Triska Sub.
Ordering was easy, the 70 watt plate amp, 2 passives and the 8" woofer, as well as a small sheet of egg crate foam took only a few clicks and $108. I bought a full sheet of 3/4" MDF at Home Depot for $18 and ejfud (Gary) gladly cut them to size for me.
Other stuff I bought: 15 8-32x3/4" black wood screws to attach the woofer and PRs, rubber "feet" for the bottom, and some speaker caulk form Midwest Speaker in St Paul.
The box itself is 13" square, pretty small. Here it is in clamps, glued and screwed. I used corner clamps on top, and one of the end caps on the bottom to keep it square to the world.
Once I added the end caps, I cut the openings with a jig saw according to the template provided. I wasn't too worried about accuracy but I did have to hog out the plate amp opening a bit to get a proper fit.
I painted it using a textured Rustoleum rattle can thing. Looking back I should have used something else, the texture grabs dust and lint like crazy. You can see the sawdust remnants in the finished pics.
All that was left was to screw in the plate amp, passives, and woofer. ShawnA (designer of the sub) provided some email assistance in adding mass to the PRs. Just add 8 washers to an M5 screw and locktite them in.
I've been listening to it for about 45 minutes now, using the pre-amp out of my Bel Canto to feed the plate amp. No, it doesn't thump, but I now have the right amount of bottom to my tunes!
Total time, about 3 hours. Total cost, about $150.
Thanks to Gary for the MDF cuts, and the listening session of his Curly Cornwalls!
