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JBL LE14A and LE 175 Home made cabinets
i recently aquired (well, maybe a year ago) a pair of home made speakers. These speakers were built by a doctor in the early 70s who didnt want to pay full price for a pair of L-101 cabinets. The port is a square hole. and the cabinet is bulky, not the right size, and fairly ugly. I was curious if anyone had designs for a cabinet to fit just the Le14a as i want to have a horn on top speaker.. I know i read somewhere saying they needed about 3.2-3.4 cubic feet. I dont know much about tuning cabinets, so if anyone had designs for a cabinet that they have used, including port size, it would be greatly appreciated.
The woofers have already been refoamed within the last 6 months
Not What You Asked For , but ;
Well ,,, I suspect those Apollo cabinets might be original . They look to be the variant shipped with the woven cloth grills . They do seem to have different detail in the top molding , from what I can gather .
LHF member "2string" has provided us with some pics of his restored C51 Apollos .
Check out the frontal detail on his C51(s) vs yours .
http://i50.tinypic.com/1z3qdlt.jpg
Here's a shot of one of his in the process of being refurbished .
http://i48.tinypic.com/2ugykjs.jpg
Now, with the top "finished" .
http://i45.tinypic.com/b989vr.jpg
Here's a look see, with his optional "modernized" grills . Very, very sharp ( IMHO ) with those grills .
- LHF member , "saman" sells authentic JBL grill cloth / I'm unsure what colors he is currently stocking ( send him a pm / though he may be on vacation ) .
http://i49.tinypic.com/att64x.jpg
Here's his pair using the more commonly seen, classically "fretted" grills ( after he picked up a second grill ) .
http://i45.tinypic.com/erbcaq.jpg
Here are 2 pics from LHF member , "JBL-Canuck" , which shows a grill type virtually identical to yours .
http://www.audioheritage.org/vbullet...1&d=1263312376http://www.audioheritage.org/vbullet...1&d=1263312360
Here's yours,
http://www.audioheritage.org/vbullet...1&d=1292304781
Maybe yours are homemade / & then again / maybe they're original Apollos .
No matter really, if those were mine ( & the veneer was restorable ) , I'd simply modernize the look to something more like this ( & maybe retune them ) ;
http://i49.tinypic.com/att64x.jpg
Do a site search for threads started by 2string . I think he's pretty happy that he kept his Apollos .
<> cheers