Alon II Mark II

Revisiting this thread...

I want to point out the need to place speakers correctly in a room in order to get the best experience. George Cardas offers some excellent suggestions here:

Setting Up Speakers In A Rectangular Room

For Alons, follow the dipole instructions.

EEK I hope the OP did not hack his Alons.

Mission makes some bookshelf speakers that don't mind being back against the wall, but shoving speakers into a cabinet is a recipe for mediocre to bad sound. The vast majority of high end speakers, includiong Alons, ESPECIALLY dipoles (Alons = dipoles) are designed to be placed AWAY from walls...that also means cabinet walls.

If you're going to put speakers in cabinets either:

A) Don't spend the money on high end speakers as they'll sound mediocre at best. Buy something inexpensive at your local BB.

B) Look into the few (very few) speakers that are edsigned for or tolerate placement close to the wall.

O K for the record i did not cut my alon speakers i kept them just the way they were added new woofers by bill Legall which by the way sound superb. I just can't understand why the last 6" of the mark two's are open space. Any way thanks for all your input.