dave shreve
Grip
- Joined
- Dec 13, 2001
- Messages
- 18
I want to improve my mains and build a center channel to match them later this year. I guess I could just buy new speakers, but what fun would that be?
My speakers are kinda old, mid-90's vintage, and were made by the now defunct Blues speaker company. They also made car audio. Anyone remember them? They sound okay, but they just seem like something is missing compared to some of the nicer speakers I have been auditioning in the audio stores(I really like Paradigm stuff). Anyways, they are an MTM setup with dual 8's and a dome tweater in a ~55 liter rear-ported enclosure tuned to about 40Hz according to my rough measurements with a tape measure. However, since I will be building a sub, I am not against plugging the ports if necessary to get the right enclosure style for the components.
The most obvious slution , to me anyways, is to buy the components from a similar kit and transplant them into my cabinets. Any ideas on how well this would work? I was kinda thinking about the Adire Kit 281 stuff, but my drivers are aligned vertically and my enclosures are a bit smaller. How would this affect the end result? Any other kit speaker transplant candidates come to mind?
-dave
My speakers are kinda old, mid-90's vintage, and were made by the now defunct Blues speaker company. They also made car audio. Anyone remember them? They sound okay, but they just seem like something is missing compared to some of the nicer speakers I have been auditioning in the audio stores(I really like Paradigm stuff). Anyways, they are an MTM setup with dual 8's and a dome tweater in a ~55 liter rear-ported enclosure tuned to about 40Hz according to my rough measurements with a tape measure. However, since I will be building a sub, I am not against plugging the ports if necessary to get the right enclosure style for the components.
The most obvious slution , to me anyways, is to buy the components from a similar kit and transplant them into my cabinets. Any ideas on how well this would work? I was kinda thinking about the Adire Kit 281 stuff, but my drivers are aligned vertically and my enclosures are a bit smaller. How would this affect the end result? Any other kit speaker transplant candidates come to mind?
-dave