tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689487740107692135.post7544413410657642256..comments2024-01-15T04:39:32.375-08:00Comments on Red Spade Audio: TL speaker galleryPaul Spencerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07514836858344391753noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689487740107692135.post-40311473288813085402010-12-15T21:32:55.305-08:002010-12-15T21:32:55.305-08:00Dear Paul,
My TLs are finished, apart from the gr...Dear Paul,<br /><br />My TLs are finished, apart from the grills. Here are some pics:<br />http://www.beletich.com.au/transline.html<br /><br />How do they sound? I'm not sure I have the audiophile vocabulary to express how they sound, but they sound AMAZING !!! It did take a couple of weeks to conclude what I thought of their sound. At first, I was a little disappointed with the quantity of low bass. I ended up taking out 30% of the polyfill (about 1m x 0.5m left in rear chamber and a smaller bit in the bottom) and pushing the cabinets back closer to the wall (with higher SAF), which seems to have improved the quantity of low bass.<br /><br />The instruments that really sound incredible are low guitar, piano, male vocal, double bass and the like. It's just incredible mid-bass - I've never heard anything like it. The top end is brilliant too (padded tweeter, wax-coil inductors, Jantzen Z-caps, etc). Sounds very very accurate and "non-boxy". The sound is right up in your face - I love it.<br /><br />The final veneer result has some problems with discolouration - e.g. where the rare earth magnets are buried for the grill !!! Next time I don't think I'll go for as light a timber colour. The veneer has 5 coats of Cabothane in satin. No stain was used - the cabothane yellows the timber quite a lot.<br /><br />I did not end up putting a solid timber baffle on the front, despite buying some nice red maple. I had SAF problems with the two-tone and did not have time to drive around matching veneer and timber. I also came around to thinking that the grills (a spousal promise) would interfere with the baffle roundover, so why not build the roundover into the grills themselves? I noticed that this is what has been done on the Paradigm mini-monitors in my office - the grills are rounded over on the vertical. This also seems to be common on some other commercial models I have seen, so this is the plan.<br /><br />Note the separate crossovers – easy to mod in future.<br /><br />Many thanks for all your help - could not have done it without you.stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17138077783177883100noreply@blogger.com