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Post by John on Jul 8, 2015 17:49:55 GMT
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Jul 8, 2015 18:02:10 GMT
Aye, was lucky to find a couple of offcuts. Even more lucky as they were posted wrapped in a couple of bin liners! |
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Post by Sovereign on Jul 8, 2015 22:34:20 GMT
Aye, was lucky to find a couple of offcuts. Even more lucky as they were posted wrapped in a couple of bin liners! Colour? |
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Post by daytona600 on Jul 9, 2015 3:26:20 GMT
glad i dumped cabinets & went for Stats myself if i had $100k like these mad Kryons OBs kyronaudio.com.au/#!home_layout_1.html |
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Post by John on Jul 9, 2015 4:07:16 GMT
They look totally mad
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Jul 9, 2015 6:57:05 GMT
Aye, was lucky to find a couple of offcuts. Even more lucky as they were posted wrapped in a couple of bin liners! Colour? Clear. Will need to buy more to make the wings at the rear. |
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Post by John on Jul 9, 2015 7:00:10 GMT
When you have them finished please show some pictures
The Alpairs will take a long time to bed in but worth it.
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Jul 9, 2015 9:48:32 GMT
Aye will do John, might be a while though!
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 9, 2015 11:54:58 GMT
Those Kryon OBs are the ones to show the other half before you show her the ones you really want (not telling her the price of course and unless you have that sort of dough)
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Post by MartinT on Jul 9, 2015 19:34:56 GMT
The ultimate zero baffles? |
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Post by DarrenHW on Jul 10, 2015 7:46:10 GMT
The ultimate zero baffles? Amazing looking speakers, I think they have a minimalist Giger vibe. Maybe a stupid question but, does the size of the driver used in an OB effect the distance it needs to be from the rear wall i.e. could an 8" driver be placed closer to the wall than a 15"? It makes sense to me that a 15" driver would need to be further away from the rear wall but that's pure speculation, I've not yet found any guidelines on rear wall placement but maybe this is completely room dependent? |
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Jul 10, 2015 8:03:22 GMT
I've found OB's to be fairly flexible as to placement - more so than box speakers anyway. How far away from the wall can you go?
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Post by John on Jul 10, 2015 8:27:32 GMT
For me they still have a sweet spot with regards to placement but more flexible than box speakers I used in the past
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Post by DarrenHW on Jul 10, 2015 8:54:59 GMT
I've found OB's to be fairly flexible as to placement - more so than box speakers anyway. How far away from the wall can you go? Okay, so I still have very little understanding of all matters audio and even I realise this is pretty crazy, but here it is: I'm looking into using OB's for Home Cinema. For front L&R I have plenty of space to play with, due to a fireplace the centre is a little trickier but I have options, rear speakers are the challenge. The room is 5m wide and seating occupies 2.6m of this space leaving 1.2m either side (both of which are walkways). I'm wondering whether I could ceiling mount an OB with an A12P approximately 600mm from the wall (distance from wall reducing away from ceiling to angle speaker towards listening position). I'm hoping this would allow the ceiling to be used for reinforcement whilst keeping the speaker out of the way and hopefully dispersing the sound of both L&R surround speakers across the seating?? I'm guessing the boundary effect of the ceiling is not as suitable as the floor but I live in a bungalow so I do have options for treating the roof space above the OB's to deaden as much as possible. If that makes sense: Would a maximum 600mm distance from rear wall be adequate for an OB housing an 8" driver? Is using the ceiling feasible? There doesn't seem to be a lot of info about doing this (I'm guessing probably for good reason), here is an alternative solution (http://www.hawthorneaudio.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1299&st=0&sk=t&sd=a). |
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Post by John on Jul 10, 2015 9:08:59 GMT
The only system I know that has a similar open baffle set up in the UK is Vic's. If memory serves me right his rear speakers are pretty much close to the rear wall compared to his front speakers his front speakers.
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Jul 10, 2015 9:10:03 GMT
I would guess that the Alpair would be fine at that distance. Bit of a suck it and see though..
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Post by DarrenHW on Jul 10, 2015 9:28:42 GMT
So not completely in the realm of insanity then, thanks chaps. I need to knock up some drawings but it would seem then in principle what I'm hoping to achieve may be possible. Having matching surround speakers is one of my biggest concern for front L&R, I have a very busy couple of weeks coming up but I'm quite excited by the prospect of beginning an OB build in August!
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Post by John on Jan 22, 2016 20:55:16 GMT
Did you ever go down this route Darren
Ali did you ever change the baffles
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Jan 23, 2016 21:19:48 GMT
Not yet John, though I now have some Crysler midrange horns and Isophon horn tweeters to use. About 105db, so very efficient. Will have to back off the gain a bit to match the Alphas, or find some very efficient woofers to use.
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Post by John on Jan 23, 2016 21:58:50 GMT
Gosh that going to be a interesting build
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