AE TD12x SEOS12 Build!!!! - Page 6

Beast - Had I known you were waiting so long for some terminals I would have sent you some binding posts and/or speakons your way STAT.

Real nice beast!

I like those binding posts as well. Very solid. You can solder the tabs onto your wire. No need to solder directly to the posts!

I hate to solder... it drives me bonkers with my big mitts. It's not the basic layout of parts in the circuits that's the problem. That's the easy part... it's the dexterity needed to do things super neat and tidy in a tiny enclosure that is hard for me.

After building a bunch of amplifiers and pre-amplifiers over the years, I definitely never want to do anything that fine and precise ever again. I just outsource that to a *great* technician/circuit genius friend here in town. He does ridiculously clean work that looks better than anything I've ever seen from any commercial manufacturer. Worth every penny to just let him do it.

Speaker crossovers, however, are exponentially easier and don't have to be anywhere near as precise and pretty As long as you make good, solid twist connections and lots of contact with the pieces being soldered together, you're golden. With all kinds of room inside the speaker box or in the separate sealed crossover compartment, it's a cinch to do and no one is going to look inside the box to see how messy you were in the layout or that you took up too much space to lay everything out...... the only caveat is that if you want to ensure an easier time of it, use a good soldering iron.... while you can do just about anything with a $20 iron, if you plan to build a few things, then spending the coin on a good soldering station with temperature control will be a dream to work with in how easy it is to flow the solder and heat things to the proper temps... also, cheap solder is not your friend, especially with a crap iron... as I said to you, I wish I'd known about your soldering situation before you came to pick stuff up. I likely wouldn't have built anything as neat and pretty as what you got, but could have shown you how easy and straightforward it is to solder your own.... of course if it is only a few bucks to have someone do it, I'm at the point that I usually take that option myself I soldered my first crossover in a while last weekend... it wasn't bad at all, but I definitely have enjoyed others doing them for me

speakers are looking mighty fine... hope you enjoy the way they sound...

QFT. I found that building the crossover during my build was the most enjoyable part. Since it was my first crossover and the most soldering I've ever done, I did exactly as you explained...making sure I had solid connections before soldering and it was as simple as that. As far as technique, I watched an entire instructional series on YouTube several times: Basic Soldering Lessons 1 - 9 and a PE crossover assmbly for the Aviatrix parts 1/2, all of which was really useful for a beginner.

Anyway, beast, dude...we've had this convo...you gotta try one someday. Now fire those babies up!!! Please, I NEED a speaker porn fix this weekend.

That was your problem, you need to know the secret time to order parts with free shipping so that you get them the next day.
Placing orders between 2 and 4 pm ET mon-thur has worked well for me, 9 out of 10 orders I place with free shipping are here the next day.

For soldering I use an old Edsyn LONER model 940B (the CL1080 would be the current equivalent). It is a great iron temp is adjustable and works great from the smallest leads to big 10awg stuff. The Edsyn irons are pricy but will last a lifetime. It was my dad's iron before I got it and I don't think he ever changed the tip, it still looks and works like new.

Beast, if you don't want to solder, just use these:



You can split them into pairs and screw them to the board. The nice thing is that swapping components or fixing mistakes is quick and easy.

Oh and you can get them at Radio Shack.

Nniiiiiiicccee!

Looking great man!

That TD12x is a stunner. Hopefully you can get everything tweaked before the show tonight.

Nice beast! Balancing sub placement between output/response and looks/pimp factor is always tough.

Man those ls6's are SEXY too!!!

Turned out great Beast!

Those look great.

Believe it or not, I think you could toe them in even more and see how they work out.

Those look sick beast. Congrats on finishing them. You better be up right now listening to them

Great job. I really like the black baffle and the finish on the rest of the speakers.

They look awesome, I have been waiting for some pics with the drivers mounted.

Do you think the phase plugs will cause any reflection issues behind your screen?

My room is kind of the same way. The bass is crazy/body moving from <8 feet from the wall, but at the LP which is 16-18 feet away it seems substantially diminished. Funny enough in my living room which is a much bigger room I don't have that issue. Once you get the other 2 boxes built, and if space allows, place a few of them around your couch - that will make a substantial difference in 'impact.'

I'm sayin'! Good job, man! They're ridiculous, right?

That's what I was waiting to hear... Can't wait till you have more time listening to these. What are you running them down too. I've been super interested in the AE's and also Rilla's B&C's. I know it's early but how are they compared to the JTR's. not sure which models you've heard/had. Awesome man... Glad you love them!!!