Drew Daniels' ANCIENT AUDIOPHILE system

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http://www.audioheritage.org/html/pe...audiophile.htm I've been very blessed to land most of the parts in decent shape to build this system. I realize the time involved is deep and need advice along the way. If not a faithful production, then something he would have approved of. The sub cabs and any wood working in general is going to be the first hurdle for me. I was looking at used SR4719X cabs and thought that it could move this forward. I'm planning on reconing 4x 2245 baskets to rest in these. What I noticed right off is the cabinet volume. Daniels' cabs should have a volume of ~23 ft3 vs. the ~20 ft3 for the 4719x. Is this cabinet idea way off or..... http://www.jblproservice.com/pdf/SR-X Series/SR4719X.pdf

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I rebuilt a pair of srx cabs. I don't know if they where built in sweden or in us. But they where really badly built. Low quality plywood. Not properly braced. The bracing was glued to the plywood, and had caused the plywood to delaminate. The back corners of the cabinet was held together with carpet only.

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That's not good at all. I was reading that birch ply was involved in the construction. I was expecting something that could maybe use a brace here and there. Undoubtedly re-tuning would be involved.
There is no way I'm installing the recones in something described like that.

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Well, mine could be locally built. Maybe someone else here has experience with american built cabinets.

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That's a challenging build. I would suggest you make a separate cabinet for each subwoofer using the Greg Timbers design from the '80's Audio Magazine article. For home use you only need two. If you build a 20 cu ft cabinet it will be very big and heavy. You will need to hire roadies.

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That's a challenging build. I would suggest you make a separate cabinet for each subwoofer using the Greg Timbers design from the '80's Audio Magazine article. For home use you only need two. If you build a 20 cu ft cabinet it will be very big and heavy. You will need to hire roadies.

It's been challenging just to get this far yet enjoyable all the way. Your thoughts are perfectly sane and I agree with you. I must also realize that this system doesn't completely follow sanity. I totally forgot about the 12 ft3 cabinet in that article. Excellent idea if that's what you had in mind. Two of those would work perfectly for now. Plans are for a bigger room (~35x25 ft. with rising ceiling) and it would be easy to scale.

I'm still curios if the 4719x would be reasonable if there are is a variant in better quality.