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In Reply to: Thanks to all the NE Bots for another outstanding meet posted by Steve Culton on September 13, 2003 at 15:35:27:
Once again a great time. Thanks for playing the role of the host Steve. Though I suspect your real motive is to add items to your Christmas wish list :)After hearing my speakers on the 2A3 amp I think I'm going have to build one of those up. Time to start my own Christmas list.
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In fact, I spent a good chunk of time yesterday listening through them.
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Keep your ears and your mind open.
...that was one of the winners at this year's Hatch (a very pretigious advertising awards) show in Boston. Unfortunately, I didn't write it.But fortunately, something I did write won. And that, my friend, did not suck.
... I posted a note at James' Full-Range Forum, but I got your name (well, your last initial) wrong! :-(I shall repair my wrong over there when I get a round tuit.
Those FE207E's were mighty fine! Did you use the shielded driver for any particular reason (vs. the non-shielded version)?
Yea, it's hard to beat a 2A3 SE amp (I think Paul Klipsch even agreed, although I think he used 2A3 PP amps when he was designing the "Heritage" Klipsch speakers).
all the best,
mrh
Hi Mark,
I read your post over at the Single Driver forum. I posted a reply there that has some of the details on the speakers.I went with the shielded FE-207E's instead of the unshielded FE-206E's mainly because of the Qts. The Qts on the 207E is 0.26 vs 0.18 for the 206E. This makes it a little more suitable for a ported enclosure. For the most part the FE-206E is only going to be happy in a rear horn enclosure. That get's a bit big for my apartment. The trade-off in efficiency is only 1dB or so.
Also the 207 has a flatter frequency response out to 10kHz whereas the 206 is tipped up slightly. There is a roll-off above 10kHz on the 207 though I haven't noticed it much in actually use.
If you want to think about building something similar, let me know and I can send you the dimensions.
I've been thinking of using a pair of these for video - could you please post the dimensions, etc. you used?
Thanks,
Pete
Sure. The internal dimensions were 11.5"(w) x 18.5"(h) x 8"(d). Material was plain old 3/4" MDF. The port is on the rear panel and measures 2" diameter x 2.75" long. I mounted the driver 6" down from the top inside edge. Stuffing was about 0.25lb of Holofil or equivalent. At this point there are no internal braces. Internal wiring was simple 20awg single strand copper magnet wire.I mounted the speaker on the wide side of the enclosure in an attempt to push the baffle step effect down a little lower in frequency, and I liked the way they look. There's no reason the driver couldn't be mounted on the narrow side. The port was to the rear in the hope of getting a little extra bass gain from the rear wall.
Hope this helps. This turned out to be a very nice sounding speaker at a budget price.
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