Wayne Parham Messages: 18786 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
Very cool build. Thanks for posting your progress!
I recommend OddWatt amps for these speakers, and I've showed with them at LSAF many times. It's a great combination.
You did the same thing with your waveguides that I do in my personal builds. I like to smooth them with fine sandpaper and paint them with black enamel too.
As an aside, isn't it amazing how different the sound is when the compression driver is connected reversed? You should see the measurement - the hole is quite obvious.
Be sure to run flanking subs. Not only to increase extension but to smooth the upper midbass and lower midrange. You can really hear the difference in the throaty part of a deep male voice, cello and other things in that frequency range.