An Unconventional Loudspeaker system
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change 2019-01-16
Woodwork
Unfortunately
the few pictures I took during the construction have been lost.
So I can only provide pictures of the nearly finished units.
For the double cones I have some pictures from the construction
of an earlier, smaller version.
Rescued are a picture and a video about sawing the pentagonal
plates.
Most pictures can be clicked for a larger version.
Sawing a pentagon.
Making the pentagons was done on a CNC machine which I built
several years ago.
This machine is now located at the HackerSpace Arnhem
(NL) www.hack42.nl .
I am a participant there with the nickname JanBee.
A
Video shows the cutting of one edge.
After that (not in
the video) the plate rotates 72 degrees by a stepper driven rotary table.
This sawing machine could not cut the 18 mm thick MDF, so I
decided to make the pentagons from 2 layers of 12 mm thick
MDF.
Rear View.
Note the Amplifier Panel with the hinges,
screw-knobs to fix it, power and signal cables, and the Speakon
connector to the Midrange unit where the cable enters through an
airtight feedthtough.
Rear view with open Amplifier Panel.
Inside the Bass unit.
Note the reinforcement boards perpenicular on the walls and the
damping material in between.
Not visible: the walls are internally lined with a floor
covering material, glued across the whole surface, to damp panel
resonances.
Be sure that the bass unit is perfectly airtight. The slightest
opening will produce hissing sounds when very low frequencies
are produced.
Inside the Midrange unit.
Note the reinforcement boards in the lower compartment. In the
upper compartment there are ten of them, rigidly connecting the
upper and middle panels.
Note the pillars on which the tweeter should rest. They consist
of two aluminium tubes of different diameter glued together.
Halfway are the rests for the cones. (yes, the nylon screws must
be shortened) The two front pillars carry the wiring for the
tweeter, signal and mains voltage for the high-voltage unit.
In the center sits a junction strip. Next to it a small piece of
the floor-cover material (gray) is visible. Yellow and white are
the wires to the midrange speaker.
Tweeter unit seen from below.
Tweeter unit inside.
Note the step-up transformer and the HighVoltage unit.
The wiring
for the tweeter signal and mains power go through two of the
three aluminium tubes on which the tweeter unit rests (1 hole
visible near the HV unit).
For more details about the tweeter see the Tweeter Page.