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Topic: Monitor design...
Posted By: pope
Subject: Monitor design...
Date Posted: 17 January 2012 at 10:56pm
Hello!
 
What do you prefer?
 
 
The sound is the most important thing  when your building speakers/monitors/subs. You can sell speakers to almost anyone without knowledge if they looking good. Monitors are in the front of the stage and the audience can have a good look at your monitors. There are some very good brands that also have a nice design. (Meyer for example) What if you can build monitors in birchply with curved front and back sections yourself? HD 15 has a curved section in the orginal plans but it was hard to get it OK (have 4 of them). I´m almost done with my first monitor of four.  I'll be back later this week with photos...
 
//Pope from Stockholm/Sweden



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Posted By: pope
Date Posted: 19 January 2012 at 8:10pm
First monitor almost finished. Here is some photos:
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Dref
Date Posted: 19 January 2012 at 8:36pm
Looks niceBig smile
Looking forward to see it loaded.


Posted By: Father-Francis
Date Posted: 19 January 2012 at 9:01pm
Mycket mycket bra ser mycket bra  LOLClapClapClapClapClapClapClap

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Posted By: lgosdset
Date Posted: 20 January 2012 at 12:28am
Thumbs Up


Posted By: pope
Date Posted: 08 March 2012 at 6:13pm
Hi!
 
I´m almost finished building. Here is all 4 monitors without paint, grills and drivers:
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: dlyxover
Date Posted: 08 March 2012 at 6:27pm
They do look very nice indeed, good stuff

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Posted By: Smiter
Date Posted: 08 March 2012 at 6:47pm
3-way floor monitor? You are certainly a daring person!
 
You'll have to make sure their phase coherency is spot on... or that 6/8" covers a wide band!!
 
 


Posted By: pope
Date Posted: 08 March 2012 at 7:48pm
I´m actually rebuilding these speakers. The drivers are Fane Studio 10M, 2 Fane HT 150 and a 5½" driver with unknown brand. There we used as monitors before but with a knee cap angle. The person who built them is a sound engineer so i hope he knew what he was doing.


Posted By: pope
Date Posted: 17 March 2012 at 4:58pm
Finished! Grills is comming...
 
 
 
 
 
 
//pope
 
 


Posted By: pope
Date Posted: 05 April 2012 at 6:17pm
I just got my monitors back with grills mounted. Just some more paint and they are ready to go. First event 21 april.
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: odc04r
Date Posted: 05 April 2012 at 6:43pm
Liking the grill punching, tidy work.


Posted By: pope
Date Posted: 05 April 2012 at 6:53pm


Posted By: pope
Date Posted: 05 April 2012 at 6:56pm
I bought the steel sheet with this "clover" pattern this morning. Expensive? I paid about 30 £ for a sheet with the size 1000x2000 mm and 1 mm thickness.
//pope


Posted By: Disco Stu
Date Posted: 05 April 2012 at 7:02pm
Hope they sound OK, those 2 top ends right next to each other look like they are going to cause some serious combing.

Stu


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Posted By: pope
Date Posted: 05 April 2012 at 7:26pm
These monitors are for vocals and I think they sound terrific. I have compared them with other monitors. The bass needs some eq but the mid and high sounds crystal clear and very loud.
//pope


Posted By: haymere
Date Posted: 08 April 2012 at 8:09am
If you dont mind me asking how did you steam the panels


Posted By: TONY.A.S.S.
Date Posted: 08 April 2012 at 9:02am
Excellent project, Was there a specific reason why you used 2 horns instead of one?

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Posted By: Tony Wilkes
Date Posted: 08 April 2012 at 9:04am
Big thumbs up for the cabs and indeed they may well sound OK but when building bespoke boxes surely some thought should go into the choice of drivers and layout to fulfil "Form and Function".

For instance why the double comps? did you do any tests on the small mid driver before sticking it in the box as you admit it is an unknown device.

If you were just building a 1 off then OK it may not be that important but as there are multiple units you have obviously built them for a purpose.

Obviously they are your project, built presumably with your own money and resources but they have been stuck on the forum presumable for some critique so this was just my own 2 cents worth

I would hate others to think that you can just grab a load of drivers stick them in a box and have audio nirvana.

Tony


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Posted By: pope
Date Posted: 10 April 2012 at 8:02pm

Hi!

Sorry for my late answer...

The cabs was rebuilded by me and was equipped with the same drivers as before. They sounded good so I didn´t change the double comps.The comps are connected in serial. I know its an unusual solution but why change if it works? I´m building cabs because its fun. I dont make any money of it and its my son who is using them for different events. (Yes I´m old...)

It took a lot of time to get the shape of the curved section but I thought it would be a challenge. The front and backside is made by two layers of 4 mm birch plywood with enforcement of five 18 mm pieces. The sheets of birchply was put in water for a couple of hours and bent over the night. I inserted polyurethane foam between. I was not sure if should rattle but it became very stiff. The bottom and baffle is 15 mm birchply

//pope
 
 



Posted By: SvempaPrim
Date Posted: 15 April 2012 at 10:45pm
Pope, where in stockholm did you buy the punched steel? Just out of curiosity.

Bor där också :)


Posted By: pope
Date Posted: 15 April 2012 at 11:14pm
>>>>SvempaPrim
Plåtleverantören i Västberga
http://www.platleverantoren.se/" rel="nofollow - http://www.platleverantoren.se/
Dom hade 10-20 st 1 mm likadana som mina hemma. Påstod att dom var 0,75 mm men jag fick det till 1 mm med skjutmåttet. Kostade egentligen 470:- men dom tog inte kort och jag hade bara 430:- på fickan och fick den för det Smile. Dom har Liroma som grossist där du kan få andra typer av perforerad plåt om dom nu orkar ta hem enstaka förstås...
http://www.liroma.se/" rel="nofollow - http://www.liroma.se/
 
Sorry for the swedish... I just told where I bought the punched steel.
 
//pope



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