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The front baffle of my soon to be completed Joule Black is going to be painted the same color with the rest of the cabinet finished in a walnut burl veneer. Don P.
Don your Joules are going to be amazing. When I saw the render of your speakers I was blown away. Gorgeous veneer and paint combo.I got to see a cross section of Vapor's transmission line cabinet, the design is really cool. No angles or parallel surfaces to cause reflection of sound waves. I saw a picture of another manufacturers tl cabinet and it looked like a high school wood shop project compared to the Joule cabinet. I'd love an opportunity to hear them sometime.
Don, congratulations. I have a pair of Joule in the que a ways behind yours, and the renders of the speakers you are getting inspired me for finish options. Pretty stunning. Please post images when you receive them.
Change of plans. Ryan was clearly keen on broadening his inventory of Aurora photo finishes and made some very interesting suggestions. Since everyone already knows what the all white looks like, we now settled on this:Vroom, vroom. It should be a stunningly rich coffee colour and work really well in our interior to boot. And it should still be easier to shoot than piano gloss black
Quite the antithesis to dog shit the colour might conjure up when you first mention it to someone
Brown, not for your Grandmothers Maverick anymore!
Forget grandma, that was my first car, 74 Maverick, in brown of course.
Rolled one of those in 75.Had a 302 in it
I have to post a note saying that I decided to cancel the 6moons review. Srajan's decision to 'sell' reviews outlined here - http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews2/why/why.htmlAnd discussed further here - http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/t.mpl?f=critics&m=76060Simply cast too much doubt for me on the legitimacy of reviews written. And I wasn't notified of this policy until weeks after details were made for sending a review pair. In fact, it was after he posted his preview page, and after this thread was started that I was told. This policy alone I probably could have moved past, but hearing of it caused a lot of consternation on my part, and started me down the path of reaching out to other reviewers and friends in the industry. During which I heard a lot more reason for concern, in fact it was unanimous that I should protect myself. In the end it wasn't an easy decision, but protecting myself and the others who count on me was the deciding factor. Even still I want it to be known that I wish it could have happened, the review that is. I've always held 6moons and Srajan's writing in very high regard, what can I say I enjoy verbal gesticulation, and Srajan is a master of it. I would have loved to see what he came up with to describe our work. I don't think any less of Srajan or his publication, I just think he made a poor decision of how to monetize his website that will cast an even darker shadow in an industry where reviewers and reviews are already viewed with such cynicism. BTW, this pair of Aurora in question has been completed since just before we left for RMAF. We are using this extra time with them to redesign with the new Transducer Labs Beryllium tweeter, a change from the current ceramic tweeter. The decision to use the more expensive tweeter was made en route to Denver, and is reflected in the price change from $3500/pair to $4000/pair. I do still expect that once crossover voicing is done with the new Be tweeter we will send them out for review. In fact I have already spoken with some possible candidates. I expect that can happen quickly. What the fallout of cancelling the review will be, I don't know. We'll just see where it goes.
