one other question for you guys modding your cabinets-
i noticed on mine that the front mounted woofer is (poorly) sealed from the rest of the cabinet. did any of you do anything to seal up that chamber?
Upon inspection of the naked/gutted cabinets I was suprised to find staples on the driver magnets, a mess of hot glue holding the felt to the walls and covering the port inlet.
Most suprising though were the loose & open rabbets almost everywhere inside
(consistently ~.1" too wide).
All the holes for wire lead-through to the mid/bass & mid/tweet chambers were also not sealed
Where I could fill the gaps with epoxy, I did so....about 8-10 oz. of it. The front baffle to side walls used the most. I will seal the wire holes with blu-tack or plastilina.
Disappointing quality/fit for such a well designed product.
The mid/bass cavity leaked, the driver mounting flange was very uneven, not as flat and smooth as I'd like to see.
The top of the mid/bass cavity is kerf-cut to make the curve, and the kerfs were not glued closed, they were gapped a bit. So I smeared 1/2 cup of yellow wood glue by hand around the inner walls, trying to jam it into the kerfs and seams, 2 coats. When I was done, there was glue penetrating into the adjacent chambers. Then I packed a fillet in all the corners with a small bit of plastilina clay just to be sure.
There were also some small fwd facing steps in the port which i got rid of.
I even removed the bottom platen and discovered that the laminated masonite baffle was not tightly glued to the side wall rabbets
so I injected glue with a hypo-needle.
It seems that structurally, decent fit 'n finish was used only where it could be seen....nice veneer job & piano black caps 'tho.
The good news is that these issues are not unworkable and I feel that the design is good enough to commit the effort.
Upgrading the network and moving it outside the box will then be the cherry on top
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