Broke down. Got a duplex.

**cradeldorf** · November 25th, 2012, 02:02 PM

Tell me that speaker is not just balancing there like that!!!

**Alien_Shore** · November 26th, 2012, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by Panomaniac

Congrats on your first coil! I've seen worse - I own worse.

Wow, that's a lot of caps back there - what going on?

Thanks Pano!
That's the prototype LF filter. It's a 10th order Bessell, so yeah, it's got quite a lot of components.

Originally Posted by cradeldorf

Tell me that speaker is not just balancing there like that!!!

My cat likes to play with it, he thinks it's an oversized top! I'll get it spinning real good and he tries to hang on

I am really hoping to get a cabinet built for this speaker over the holiday vacation, so I can start some real listening tests. The preliminary tests with the free-standing driver are pretty amazing. I just lay it on it's side to get some good floor loading and put on my Nat King Cole CD. I'm anxious to get this HF filter built and then hook up the LF and the HF together...it's kinda scary how revealing this speaker is. I can hear the engineer tweaking individual mics on the recording... unreal.

**cradeldorf** · November 27th, 2012, 03:00 AM

I know what your saying, I have heard things in recording that were clearly not supposed to be there.

I can't wait till you hear it in a cab. They are impressive.

**donaldpatten** · January 8th, 2013, 01:06 AM

Alien Shore

Mike:
Hope you had a good holiday.
How is the new speaker cab. coming?
You will be surprised when you hear it all tuned up

Don

**Alien_Shore** · January 10th, 2013, 10:24 PM

Thanks Don! Yep - Holidays were great. Our son came down from NYC to visit for a few days and we hooked up with some friends and family.
I am working on an Altec 620 clone cabinet to test with. Should be done within a week. I have built the HF filter portion to mate up to your time-delay Besell filter for the woofer...so I think we're all set to test this thing out once the test cabinet is finished.

**Alien_Shore** · March 11th, 2013, 08:45 PM

OK, 2 months later that I thought, but I finally have my 604E mounted in a test box:

604etestbox

Right now, its a sealed box. I will probably put a PVC vent in it with threads so I can adapt the size of the vent easily, or cap it off if I want it sealed. So far so good, oh, and before you guys start ragging on my crappy construction let me just say it's my first cabinet ever so go easy.