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Peter,These are going to be beautiful speakers once you're finished. Hell, they're already great looking! In your opening post, you mentioned using furniture joints. Which kind are you using? [I looked up 'furniture joints', and came up with nearly a dozen different joints. What made you decide on the Speedster over other 2.5-way designs out there?Michael
Hi Peter. You just left us hangin' man. JCarney
Oops, didn't realize I started something here. I'm assuming y'all are wanting a what-do-they-sound-like report. I built these for a couple of reasons. First, I love the form factor. Diminutive towers are just sexy looking to me. Second, the 2.5 way design is interesting. Also, mass loaded transmission line is a curious thing. I was hoping to be wowed but wasn't. Maybe my bar is too high after X-Oticas and dual OB subs.Briefly: They do produce a lot of bass for 4" drivers, but tend to be bass forward, particularly with the forward-facing port. Mid-range is lacking some presence, I assume because tweeter isn't, or can't be, crossed lower, but I'm no designer. Meniscus did send additional caps to adjust high frequencies, but I never messed with them. My neighbor took one look and said "I want them", so I sold them to him. Don't get me wrong, they don't sound bad, but a bit recessed on top and boxy after open baffle.I designed the cabinets with the back-of-mind notion of producing a flat pack, should they prove to be magical. For now, that's off the table. Juice not worth the squeeze, IMHO. That, and I'm in the midst of recovering from a lighting strike that took a bunch of my network out and cooked some components in my design computer. 100s of gigs of data out of my reach at the moment. It's a kind of miserable thing.Does that get y'all what you were looking for?