#1 Alpair12P MLTL speakers
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 8:25 pm
These speakers are for a Andrew and his wife Fiona up in Scotland. Andrew was so impressed with the performance of the small bookshelf A12P speakers he ordered a pair the drivers and asked if I could do him a floorstander with a bit more bass extension than the bookshelves. So a call to Scottmoose and he came up with this design. It has a different alignment than the Pencil series and requires minimum damping as per typical for MLTL's.
To date I have built both speaker carcasses ready for veneering with some European Oak that is due for delivery early next week. You will note that the front and rear baffles are doubled up in thickness so to incorporate a 18mm x 18mm rebate for full length solid European Oak edgings all round. The top and bottom of the speakers will also be 25mm thick soild European Oak hence the window braces to hold it all together as these will be glued on last and sanded flush with the veneer.
Anyway to some photos:
Photo 1 below shows the basic carcass with the internal damping:
Photo 2 shows the front and rear views of the assembled cabinets. The 2" dia hole in the rear panel is for an adjustable L-Pad as Andrew wants to have the facility to use a Supertweeter (Fostex T90A) with the speakers.
Photo 3 below is of the driver cut-out in the front baffle and clearly seen in the rear baffle the cutouts for the L-pad.
And lastly a photo taken from above lookinking down into the speaker showing the chamfer around the driver cut out.
I'll post more photos when I get the veneer and have glued on the soild Oak components.
If the performance of the Scottmoose designed bookshelves is anything to go by I have high hopes for these. Fingers crossed Andrew and Fiona will love them.
To date I have built both speaker carcasses ready for veneering with some European Oak that is due for delivery early next week. You will note that the front and rear baffles are doubled up in thickness so to incorporate a 18mm x 18mm rebate for full length solid European Oak edgings all round. The top and bottom of the speakers will also be 25mm thick soild European Oak hence the window braces to hold it all together as these will be glued on last and sanded flush with the veneer.
Anyway to some photos:
Photo 1 below shows the basic carcass with the internal damping:
Photo 2 shows the front and rear views of the assembled cabinets. The 2" dia hole in the rear panel is for an adjustable L-Pad as Andrew wants to have the facility to use a Supertweeter (Fostex T90A) with the speakers.
Photo 3 below is of the driver cut-out in the front baffle and clearly seen in the rear baffle the cutouts for the L-pad.
And lastly a photo taken from above lookinking down into the speaker showing the chamfer around the driver cut out.
I'll post more photos when I get the veneer and have glued on the soild Oak components.
If the performance of the Scottmoose designed bookshelves is anything to go by I have high hopes for these. Fingers crossed Andrew and Fiona will love them.