CuznEddy Cinema Project Begins - Page 53

A selfish bump to show the status of my speaker building "adventure"

Thanks!
"Now don't get to attached to her Clark - we're taking her with us when we leave in a few months"

Yet another selfish bump....
Continuing my quest of DIY SEOS speakers:

Center Channel:
I put several coats of Duratex on my center channel stand. Here's BUC happily at home on the new stand. The stand was cut to aim BUC at the MLP, about a 14 degree upwards tilt.
Once my mains are finished; I will be "duratexing" all 3 speakers (for now BUC just has a temporary black latex roll-on paint job). The Duratex is a bit pricy, but well worth it, really a nice product to work with!


Main Speakers:
As you can see below I managed to get my boxes 80% assembles and glued-up for the deltalight mains.
If you look at the bottom rear, you can see where i filled and glued in a backing plate for the speaker terminal connection.
First; had to cut a very thin filler strip to fill-in the unused rabbit slot on the inside of the back panel, before putting in the backing plate (no big deal).
Also at the bottom you can see where I have cut some X/O boards. Not yet sure if I can crowd all the components on to one board, or I might split it up and use 2 XO boards per speaker (one for the woofer, and one for the WG)?


And finally I started working on some stands for my mains.
I still need to cut the top mounting plates to size, and then I will round most of the corners and edges, fill the PVC tubes with sand, and will Duratex the whole thing. I assume Duratex will adhere to PVC plastic?

Thanks NIck
As for the PVC tubes; I'll sand them, then will first try painting them with the spray primer for plastic, and/or the Krylon paint for plastic.
and if necessary; my backup plan will be either Duratex or an upholstery covering.
On another note - aren't you about to show us a SEOS DIY build?

Thanks RT! The BUC center channel sounds great; most importantly dialogue is a lot more intelligible at normal listening levels. I attribute this to several causes:

When I built my HT; I failed to realize how much I was handicapping my Klipsch RC7 center when I built it into the overhead soffit.
I realized later, it was a bad idea; especially for a port-bass reflex vented box!

The other advantage (I think) is that the dispersion pattern of the SEOS waveguide seems to result in less bounce from the overhead Klipsch from the ceiling.
I have had a nasty dip in FR from the center channel somewhere around 100!120 Hz. However; I will need to make some REW comparison graphs to verify.

And if pushed "really hard" (not normal but I did try to see how much abuse it could handle), the center channel seems to have more headroom and does not compress.

vikgrao,
Thanks - that means a lot coming from yourself - appreciate it.
In other words; you have the most impressive and aesthetic new theater build underway in the midwest. I'm thinking I need to do an Indiana tour one of these days

For sure Warren!
Nice to know you are checking up on us "flat-landers" .....

A selfish thread bump to celebrate finishing my winter DIY speaker project, it's now spring - right ???

RT,
Thanks !

As for spring - could be worse - we could have that 3" . Just heard from a coworker in STL. they are getting punished with snow.

DIY speakers are great, I would be honored to participate in RT-DIY-Sub(s) !!

Wazzey - Thanks for stopping by and the kind words!
Epecially good to see you have my back on the WAF...

Any snow on the golf course this AM?

Hanes,
Thanks - it's great to hear from you and Picard!!! When can we start planning your build?

Wazzey,
The above also describes my situation quite well.
That said; my wife will join me in the basement once a weekend for a movie, and occaionally on Monday night for Hawaii 5-0