After helping fix the review speaker, I was thanked by receiving parts for a pair. As some of you may know, one of the woofers went bad and so I ordered two new ones. The front baffle tweeter cutouts were leaky and needed to be redone. This essentially meant removing and replacing the font baffle. Then there was the SPK5's twisty vent and external crossover. After some woodworking and modeling (sorry no pics), got to here...
The original plywood internal brace in one of the speakers was so poorly cut, I removed both and replaced with MDF. As you can see, decided to mount the crossover internally. This was done after deciding to forgo both the long SPK5 vent and/or a passive radiator. This is why this is now an SPKx rather than a SPK5. The SPK4 used a straight vent and my modeling suggested this was fine.
Here is a look at the new front baffle. It is thicker than the original by half an inch and used the extra thickness to bevel it to fit. The bevel was somewhat undersized and attached with wood glue and the other half of the joint was attached using polyurethane glue for added damping. Note my addition of cleats to the underside of the brace. This reinforces the brace as it is otherwise held in place by a thin layer of wood glue.
My paint job is multiple coats of Rustoleum satin black spray paint. It is a work in progress. Expect driver mounting and other work will scratch it up and will touch-up and polish when I am done...
The original plywood internal brace in one of the speakers was so poorly cut, I removed both and replaced with MDF. As you can see, decided to mount the crossover internally. This was done after deciding to forgo both the long SPK5 vent and/or a passive radiator. This is why this is now an SPKx rather than a SPK5. The SPK4 used a straight vent and my modeling suggested this was fine.
Here is a look at the new front baffle. It is thicker than the original by half an inch and used the extra thickness to bevel it to fit. The bevel was somewhat undersized and attached with wood glue and the other half of the joint was attached using polyurethane glue for added damping. Note my addition of cleats to the underside of the brace. This reinforces the brace as it is otherwise held in place by a thin layer of wood glue.
My paint job is multiple coats of Rustoleum satin black spray paint. It is a work in progress. Expect driver mounting and other work will scratch it up and will touch-up and polish when I am done...
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