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Photobucket has become so over run with ads it takes forever to get to your library. I started over at Imgur and it seems decent so far. I also grabbed a copy of everything I had on Photobucket to put on imgur but will leave behind a copy at photobucket. Like nick says, no fun going through a thread with broken links.

Ok. I'll try imgur from now on too. Looks like their back up. But for how long....... ::spookiness::

Building commences on new diy LCR super towers. Material cut today. Assembly starts tomorrow. Pics later. Need beer. January blahs hit me hard so I couldnt wait till spring. Lol.

Thanks to Mojo and Socketman for urging this forward in their own ways.

So are these your own design or are they based on a kit. I wish i could get something going out in the shop but i have no need for anymore speakers and no money but plenty of BLAH LOL. Looking forward to following along with ya.

Are you kidding? I am far too cowardly, cheap, skeptical and did I mention green, to embark on such a courageous mission. Actually, I have been looking at DIY kit designs for years and almost made some a while back. So this will be a modified kit build. Being the overthinker I am, I asked for the book Acoustics:Sound Fields and Transducers for Christmas. It definitely underlined that fact I wouldn't have a sober clue of where to start on my own for now. Cold fusion level math on those pages..... I know enough to know I just don't know enough yet. And they gotta just work without an iterative process (I am already on the wall pleading with the firing line )

So here we go. We are building a tried, tested and perhaps a little tired, forum favourite, Jim Holtz's Statement IIs. Das a lotta imitation lumba!



Princess Auto finally came to the Island. So my rack got a remix! They sell bearing platters there that are suitable for a bunch of weight. We field tested in the store Chubby Checker style and I could twist no prob. So a few zips of the saw with my existing shelving, a few laughs and beers, some leftover paint and $14 later...

A spinning AV rack that allows access to the gear's rear without cable fear. A bit of a sidebar quest, but if anyone wants to make one I can recommend this part.

http://www.princessauto.com/en/detail/1-000-lb-turntable-bearing/A-p8148504e

I see a *big* spinning DVD/BR rack in my future... thanks !

The Statement II's look like really nice speakers. I had a brief "OMG do I tell him ?" moment when the first link I clicked on said "hey the Dayton woofers for Statement II are no longer available and mfg says reduce the cabinet volume and raise the tuning by 3 Hz"... but on further investigation I found posts from Jim Holz saying that the new woofers work fine in the original cabinet.

http://speakerdesignworks.com/Statements.html

Did you go through the same experience ? And was it before or after you cut all that lumber ?

Thats so funny to read. I have the loudspeaker design cookbook and a book on tube amp design and my head bounced off the desk after the first page reading the tube book.Those books made me feel stupid LOL. I started building a set of Thor speakers which use Seas drivers and i got the cabinets all built but could never afford the drivers so i had to abandon that project. Turns out there were so many variations of the original design i decided it was not worth the gamble. I have heard a lot of good things about the statements , whether you will like them better than what you have will remain to be seen but it will be a fun project i am sure.

Yeah I spotted that too before any of this started. The driver issue was solved so we're OK. I'm building the ver II so there were crossover and midrange changes as well. I'm glad his stuff is well documented.

I haven't found anyone else who has made them and took a battery of measurements, but everyone seems to love them. They seemed like a safe choice for a build. We'll see..... I want dread remember. If this works out the end game will be migrating to an all 8" woofer based immersive system that Socketman knows a little about. But that comes later and will also have a large DIY component where the speakers are also modular acoustic panels. Baby steps.

Honestly, it's just great to be setting out into the unknown with my father in law again. So much fun! and sawdust!

Build your rack Bridgman. Pics!

Scaling out. Look familiar Brwsaw?

Before.



After.

Are you building 3 of them ? I cant be certain but the center channel may block the tv unfavorably