Fonken Ah!

[ejfud]

Built a pair of Fonken cabs for the Fostex FE127 for specialidiot. So far they sound very nice.

Let's see how long it takes Jeff to notice this thread shall we.

He should be able to take them home around the first of the year.

 

[RayW]

Built a pair of Fonken cabs for the Fostex FE127 for specialidiot. So far they sound very nice.

Those came out great, Gary! What about finish? You gonna let him do the smelly part?

He should be able to take them home around the first of the year.

:lmao:

BTW, love the thread title.

Ray

 

[ejfud]

Those came out great, Gary! What about finish? You gonna let him do the smelly part?

Ray

Dang right. I hate to do finishing.

 

[specialidiot]

here I am

 

[specialidiot]

making room right now...

 

[Redboy]

Cool! I like those speaker stands, too. :yes:

Real fonken nice!

 

[RayW]

Looks like the stands put the Fonkers up too high. You might want to run those across the tablesaw and cut a foot or so off of them.

Jeff, what are the plans for finish on those? Fleckstone? Take 'em to the Harley garage and have 'em chromed?

Ray

 

[Urizen]

Great fonken workmanship, Gary.:thmbsp:

 

[specialidiot]

Jeff, what are the plans for finish on those? Fleckstone? Take 'em to the Harley garage and have 'em chromed?

I have some rosewood left.... maybe do the slanted faces in curly maple?

The insides of the ports are painted black.

Might take a while before I do that. I need to finish up my Pilot first.

 

[NicoR]

Very nice. Something about good birch plywood craftsmanship makes me very happy. I must secretly be Finnish.

Is the design a backhorn or some kind of unusual ported box?

 

[specialidiot]

From the Meet The Fonkens web site

The Fonken & miniOnken are near aperiodic enclosures that provides balanced response from about 60 Hz up to over 15k Hz with no crossovers. The long ports with a very high aspect ratio naturally provide a port with high resistance. They can be made fully aperiodic with the addition of foam plugs in the ports. This may be useful to easier mate with a woofer -- or in the case of the miniOnken lean out the bass in a room where it is otherwise overfull. The near-aperiodic nature is seen in the Fonken impedance curves below -- it is indicated by the small peak on the lower side of the resoance saddle.

 

[specialidiot]

here's a neat cutaway from the above site

 

[M Jarve]

Those are something else, no mistake. I wish I were closer so I could take a listen.:tears:

 

[ejfud]

That's what they are supposed to look like.......

 

[doucanoe]

They are very Fonkenesque in there Fonkenness!

RC

 

[ozmoid]

Gary, you never cease to amaze me - that looks like it was one heck of a build!

Now - tell me about the stands... TQWT?

 

[ejfud]

Gary, you never cease to amaze me - that looks like it was one heck of a build!

Now - tell me about the stands... TQWT?

They are a floor stander bass reflex with the Jordan 92 on board.

 

[Redboy]

Gary's being too modest. Here's a little background reading...

And a raving review by inspiribomb.

:thmbsp:

 

[Army]

Very fonken nice :thmbsp:

 

[gmilitano]

As always Gary, very nice work.

Yeah, I like the speaker stands too!