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VSAT88

VSAT88

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Nothing like having a good bud at the Vape store. Buckey's Vape store in Columbus Ga. Willy told me about the close out on cigars. They decided to stop selling them. All the rest of the cigars (26 left) and a Humidor for $55.00! I have a nice smaller humidor but hell this is a pretty damn big one! I was beginning to run a little low on cigars too. I don't smoke them all that often but enjoy one every once in a while. Built me on a Cigar Shack extension on the back of my house last year with two speakers and a Bogen tube stereo set. Two rocking chairs. It's nice to sit outside and smoke a stogie some times and listen to the French Cajun music on Cajun Music Radio on the net. As you can see I ain't no hell of a builder!
 

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Rigged, yep. That would be the word that would explain the way I got all that hooked up and built out there. One thing about it. When I build something it's going to take hell to tear it down because I triple build everything with screws being I know I don't know what I am doing with carpentry.
 
wattsabundant said:
I have the same style humidor, only slightly larger. It doesn't seal very well. Instead I use Tupperware low profile containers lined with cedar sheets and the humi-packs. Living in Ohio I usually lay off the cigars during the winter.
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Perhaps I should do the same Don. Get Tupperware. I could re-purpose this box for TT Carts and needles!
 
VSAT88 said:
Yeah Lee. I sit around dreaming of speaker designs I would like to try ans then never try because I already know... No need in wasting very expensive Birch plywood.
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I made an exception with the K's.
There were some 2nd and 3rd attempts at some of the parts, about an extra 4x8 sheet worth....not bad for a 7"Skilsaw, protractor, and 40" straightedge.....a table saw would have saved a lot of time and frustration, but i was a broke father to two young boys and was barely able to make the deal happen.
Also had the original Speakerlab drivers and crossover. The woof was the worst. The mid was the "55" 1 inch compression driver, not bad but with the metal horn kinda squawky . Tweets were the EVT 350...GOOD TWEETS. Ran em for twenty years like that. Aftrr the boys got kicked out upgraded to an Al Klappenberger crossover. MY GOD WHAT A DIFFRRENCE!! Followed a couple years after with the Crites woofs, a Martinelli Tractix Wood Horn with the 2" BMS 4592 compression drivers and the B & C ME 10 tweets. Bears no resemblance to what i started with, other than the unfinished plywood exterior...
 
Lee, I am perfectly fine with a unfinished plywood exterior. Do not get me wrong. I love the oiled walnut veneer (I think it is anyway) finish on the JBL's but, that ain't me trying to veneer them either! I have always liked the KLH 5's shine too after some BLO. Those and the Klipsch Fortes look wonderful after a quick bath too. (No turtle tank water though.)
 
I always lol when I see people asking big bux for original Altec crossovers

And whatever wood you use be sure to brace the the shit outta those boxes otherwise rattle rattle and a 250 hz bump
 
J!m said:
Dominican are equally good honestly. But I don't have a combustionphile palette.

Cuban (or Dominican) filler with Connecticut shade-grown wrapper is what you want.
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I actually prefer Dominican. The Cubans I've had were very inconsistent burn and not any better in flavor. Totally agree with the shade grown wrapper.
 
Pipes and Cigars online is who I have been ordering from and have gotten good service from them. What do you think? Any other places better to try for the Dominican w. Shade grown ?
 
mr_rye89 said:
I always lol when I see people asking big bux for original Altec crossovers
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That's funny, because when I see a vintage Altec or JBL crossover for $500.00 - I cry. They are that good and I want them.
It is not the parts really, it is the engineering that went into the design.

I use a pair of JBL 3110 800 Hz crossovers between the JBL K120 woofers and the 2426J Compression Driver behind a 2370A Horn. Those crossovers weigh 10 pounds and I have sent 500 Watts of program material through each one and they sound fantastic.
 
The crossovers in my 1202s were terrible......well 1202s in stock form are terrible. And it seems all the guys with Model 19s, model 17s, Valencias, etc upgrade the crossovers because the originals arent great. JBL crossovers are usually pretty good far as I can tell.

I went to active crossovers, great sound easy and no inductors, capacitors, resistors, or L pads to deal with, and no Japanese Audiophile prices for dried out capacitors from the 1940s
 
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