My TD12M/SEOS-12 build - Page 3

Just finished up one speaker. Hope to finish up the other two tomorrow night. Going to bed now.

All of them are completed. Do have some paint touch up to do. One waveguide was very tight going in.

Front left in its temporary spot. All speakers will be located behind the curved AT screen.


Center


Front right


With the toe-in that I have on these they image very well. I have only hooked up the front left and front right. Did not even do any setup (listened for a couple hours and then went to finished the third speaker) and these sound very good. I think I will be happy with these for a while. I need to do some A/B against the JTR's.
Edited by AV Science Sales 5 - 11/18/12 at 5:23pm

Thanks guys. This weekend, I hope I have time to pull the screen down, remove the sound panels on the wall, install the new speakers and rework the sound panels to fit the new speakers. of course, I have to work on getting our 12'-6" Christmas tree up. I only do the tree and the lights, wife does the decorating. Looking forward to having the new speakers in place. Only bad thing, I will not be able to see them.

I have a large work shop, but did not have the time to go there and build these. The shop is 12 miles away from my house. I have a very understanding wife. I actually built these inside. I put down plastic to cover the hardwood floor and glued them up. I did do the sanding outside and the painting in the garage. I built them in my family room shown here: http://s243.beta.photobucket.com/user/mjg100photo/library/Downstairs%20room

I like these speakers. I got them installed behind the screen Saturday night and ran Audyssey XT32 on my system. The front speakers are against the front wall (center is recessed partially into front wall, flush with sound panels). I have the mains crossed slightly in front of me. Audyssey set the front three to full range. I set them to 80hz. I listened to some movies that I was very familiar with and I listened to some music. For music the SEOS is better. For movies the SEOS and JTR's are pretty close. The SEOS speakers seem a little smoother, a little bit cleaner. I ended up turning the master volume louder than before. I used to listen to movies at -15 to -10 on master volume. I found myself listening at -5. Reference level sounded better with the SEOS, cleaner, less harsh. I need to break out REW and the calibrated mic and see what I actually have, but finding the time to do so is hard for me this time of the year. October, November, December and January are very busy months for me. I will see about taking a pic of my front stage.

The more I listen to these speakers, the more impressed I am. So smooth and clean, that you just want to up the volume, much louder than what I used to listen with the JTR's.

Watched Total Recall on BD last night. These speakers are so smooth and clean, that I watched the whole movie at reference level. It was enjoyable loud. What I mean, nothing at all harsh. The bass in this movie is pretty good.

2009 T8's. I also looked at updating the crossovers and drivers. Going to be working on a couple new subs and re-working one old sub. Have to make room for the seating, coming next week. Also going to see if I can add an LED light kit to my AT screen, to see if it will show off the speakers.

Sorry, sold them 6 weeks ago to Noah.

Now that I have my front stage put back together, here are some pictures.

Two SI 18's and one Mael-X 18". Not shown are two 12" TC Sounds in the back corners. The TC Sounds have a copper sleeve on the pole piece.


Curved screen and yes picture was taken with the flash turned on.


My seating.

The screen is 9' wide, curved EN4K, viewed from 9'. The projector is a JVC RS45 with an anamorphic lens, Lumagen and a Darbee. The sound panels behind the seats look white in the black room, but they are actually dark gray. Here are some of the same panels in another room with light gray walls.
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff112/mjg100photo/Downstairs%20room/P1010452.jpg
Edited by AV Science Sales 5 - 1/30/13 at 5:41pm

Yes, I painted them with black high temperature spray paint. High temp is probably overkill, but it cost very little more than regular paint, so I used it.