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well, i'm not buying anything 'till the very end of the semester, so it can be sent home and i'll actually receive it, and what do you have in mind for cabinets?

MDF or some kind of hardwood, anything but plywood. the terminals you have on those also look super lossy

martini161 wrote:MDF or some kind of hardwood, anything but plywood. the terminals you have on those also look super lossy

only parts that are plywood are my handmade tweeter box(which i more or less threw together) and the pressed wood faces for the boxes with 10's

and, the terminals on the receiver?

skierkid450 wrote:

martini161 wrote:MDF or some kind of hardwood, anything but plywood. the terminals you have on those also look super lossy

only parts that are plywood are my handmade tweeter box(which i more or less threw together) and the pressed wood faces for the boxes with 10's

and, the terminals on the receiver?

no on the speakers

got the speakers in and the crossover soldered up and screwed in, what can i do for the terminals on the speaker box? what provides the best contacts? or would just contact cleaner do the trick

You can usually find banana plug style terminals at Radio Shack for pretty reasonable prices. They have a spade connecter on the inside, so you'd solder the wire to a spade and connect that to the terminals, or you could solder them direct to the spade's I suppose. Banana plugs are widely accepted to be the standard speaker internconnect.

Old Crossover(when i say old, i mean 1975) don't worry about the solder, i was young, and stupid, lol


new 200W handling beast:

Welcome to the future.

just a little update: my parents got a new bed frame, and its really big, so it came in big boxes with lots of styrofoam, AND 5/8" Particle Board! not sure why, but i wondered was it wide enough(got two pieces that were about 5' 10" long, and a little over a foot wide) got out the tape measure, and voila it's about an inch wider than i needed, so i took the speaker downstairs, and did the following:

few swings of a rubber mallet later..


ended up going with a divider since i had plenty of wood and like to use pounding bass



i have to make the holes for the speakers to set into now

skier wrote:just a little update: my parents got a new bed frame, and its really big, so it came in big boxes with lots of styrofoam, AND 5/8" Particle Board! not sure why, but i wondered was it wide enough(got two pieces that were about 5' 10" long, and a little over a foot wide) got out the tape measure, and voila it's about an inch wider than i needed, so i took the speaker downstairs, and did the following:

few swings of a rubber mallet later..


ended up going with a divider since i had plenty of wood and like to use pounding bass



i have to make the holes for the speakers to set into now

NOW you're talking! Good on ya brother!

The reason the hole is so funny shaped:

put the woofer in and tried it out, there's a LOT of air getting out from around where the speaker screws to the particle board, but no air at all gets past that partition into the bay with the 6 1/5 and tweeter, it also comes out like a jet from this little hole the old crossover used in the back for a frequency knob, which surprised me since the hole is covered up by the new crossover!

(the crossover is slightly raised)

so what do i use for a seal between the speaker and the box? currently when i give it some pounding bass you can hear air getting pushed out and sucked in around the woofer(and you can feel it a lot too)

i'll post a bass test vid if anyone wants to see the woofer in action, currently the one box alone has plenty of bass to shake my room up pretty good