BobTahoe Messages: 32 Registered: July 2015 Location: Lake Tahoe , NV
Baron
Painting is coming out better this time third times the charm.
I have finished and moved one 4pi to the living room to make sure I like the look of it. It's not perfect but it's 100x better then the first 2 rounds of paint, good enough to live with at this point.
The 4 Pi's will most likely sit on top of my 3Pi subs for a while until I build stands for them. All in all I think they've turned out pretty well and I think I like the gray.
Now to finish painting the last 2, then I can redo the r13 inside since it's all covered in Paint at this point.
I started getting everything setup to test my JBL woofers, hopefully they are turn out fine either way I'll post the results here.
BobTahoe Messages: 32 Registered: July 2015 Location: Lake Tahoe , NV
Baron
Got the rest of the 4pi's painted only a bit of overspray and some dust to clean up but all in all the look pretty good.
I picked up some Foam gasket tape for the speakers and waveguides. Will this also be ok for the cross over? Could I just mount the cross over on cork? or with a bead of silicon under it?
Only other thing to do is to test my 2226h's this weekend just to make sure they are original cones as was descried when I purchased them. Was going to do it outdoors but it's been so windy lately the noise from all the trees and everything has been too much. I might try and indoor test hopefully it will yield ok results.
Should have this all finished up soon just waiting on my delivery from Wayne .
Wayne Parham Messages: 18783 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
You can use just about anything as a gasket under the crossover PCB. I personally use PVC liner, like what contractors put underneath shower tile. But you can use a sheet of cardboard, foam or pretty much anything that acts as a cushion. All we want to do is to prevent vibration.
BobTahoe Messages: 32 Registered: July 2015 Location: Lake Tahoe , NV
Baron
I think finally the paint on the 4pis is acceptable. My wife agrees which is good since they'll be in the living room.
Still need to redo the r13 and put in the binding posts. Rest of the parts should be here next week!!
Glossy paint is the enemy, I'm not even sure I really won the battle here, but I've at least accepted a truce.
The 3 Pi's got cleaned up and a fresh coat of paint, I need to add the binding posts and hurricane nuts to them still. Does anyone know if the Lab12 shares the same screw hold pattern as the delta-12LF? I have of the deltas laying around I could use to measure the holes for the hurricane nuts or I could just wait until the Lab 12's get here.
BobTahoe Messages: 32 Registered: July 2015 Location: Lake Tahoe , NV
Baron
Finally Finished!!!
Last photo before buttoning them all up:
Here's they are in room finished!
As you can see my old speakers are currently being used as stands.
I'll post more on sound later, but these are by far the best speakers I've ever heard in a living room. I've watched a few Blu-Rays of Live shows from Umphrey's McGee (check them out) and I can honestly say it sounds better in my living room then it did when I was there. They are extremely easy to listen too. They play details extremely well. I'm very happy.
My 3pi's aren't getting full power yet waiting on one more thing so I can hook up the pro audio amp I picked up to power them. Then I'll post some measurements.
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