Oh Yeah. Done, with Spare Vintage Parts downstairs. Die with them, none too soon please!
It was the sound of these speakers/drivers that got me thoroughly hooked in 1971. Came in a 1958 Fisher Console, President II, I inherited from my uncle.
8" high bronze base, 15" woofers faced down.
I’ve moved the drivers/level controls/crossover into a few different enclosures over the years, now their final: Custom Rosewood.
My Woodworker had been saving a small flitch of matched Brazilian Rosewood, just enough to do the job. New Import of Brazilian Rosewood was banned by then.
Original design, no ports. For open space, no wall behind (prior location) I open the tuned rear port (Enclosure and tuned rear port designed with the help of Electro-voice Engineers). Current space, I plugged the rear ports.
Here is a shot face down, back off. No special bracing, but no vibration. Tops are slightly slanted and I put many of Donna’s precious things on top. I verify the drivers are tight annually.
The Horn’s drivers are linen, phenolic coated, essentially indestructible, and the 15" woofer paper cone has vintage cloth surround, hard to find, I re-coned them twice myself and have spare cones and full set of spare drivers for the future. All drivers are Electro-Voice 16 ohm
The Original Electro-Voice 3 way crossover is components in tar in a sealed metal can. Custom Crossover builders tell me to leave them alone.
I put new 16 ohm L-Pads Level Controls recently.
Incredibly efficient, came with Fisher 30 wpc mono tube amps, I have driven them with 8 wpc tubes; fisher 500c 35wpc tubes; McIntosh 300 wpc SS, now Cayin 45 wpc tubes, AT88 version one with 16 ohm taps (sadly bias adjust is internal).
Balancing the speaker’s in the room with the level controls, sound pressure meter, tripod, test tracks is hard, tedious, but very rewarding when done right.
Everybody knows by now that I think speakers should come with level controls, to adjust the speakers IN THE SPACE they will be heard. Precise stepped L-Pads would be easier than my step-less rotary ones.
