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djbachelor
Enthusiast
I already posted my first listening impressions and experiences over in Skyline_123's ER18 thread (http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/diy-corner-tips-techniques/68531-new-diy-mtm-towers-designed-dennis-murphy-paul-kittinger-36.html#post987713) But to recap...
These are not completed, they still need bases, finish sanding, and finish...however, after having them all over the shop for the past 6 months as I work on them off and on, I got pretty eager to put them together and sit down for some "Passive enjoyment"!
A little background: I am a novice woodworker, having done a couple smaller projects for fun (e.g. jewelry boxes) as well as work around the house. I started a modified Statement build with my engineer cousin a few years ago, who made it complicated (double-walled cabinet with sand-filled sides); he'd done this before on another design with terrific results. This complexity, combined with building 3 sets (including centers) and the fact that we are both busy and live far apart means that they are still not done. In the meantime, I got married and bought a house, and of course she said "no way are those behemoths going in our living room" or something to that effect.
I am lucky enough to have landed in a large enough house to accommodate several speaker builds though (although the house itself needs work, which leaves not enough time for building speakers to fill it); so no problem--the statements will go downstairs in the basement theater (maybe overkill for a 13x24 room with two 750 liter sonosubs? oh well, there are worse problems!) and I got to start a new project for living room speakers: enter the ER18s. The goal was for something a little daintier (haha) than the Statements, and design had to offer an acceptable WAF. Between my imagination, inspiration from others' ornate box projects I've seen, and wood I could come up with, I kind of experimented and sorted it out as I went, and here is what I have so far.
These are not completed, they still need bases, finish sanding, and finish...however, after having them all over the shop for the past 6 months as I work on them off and on, I got pretty eager to put them together and sit down for some "Passive enjoyment"!
A little background: I am a novice woodworker, having done a couple smaller projects for fun (e.g. jewelry boxes) as well as work around the house. I started a modified Statement build with my engineer cousin a few years ago, who made it complicated (double-walled cabinet with sand-filled sides); he'd done this before on another design with terrific results. This complexity, combined with building 3 sets (including centers) and the fact that we are both busy and live far apart means that they are still not done. In the meantime, I got married and bought a house, and of course she said "no way are those behemoths going in our living room" or something to that effect.
I am lucky enough to have landed in a large enough house to accommodate several speaker builds though (although the house itself needs work, which leaves not enough time for building speakers to fill it); so no problem--the statements will go downstairs in the basement theater (maybe overkill for a 13x24 room with two 750 liter sonosubs? oh well, there are worse problems!) and I got to start a new project for living room speakers: enter the ER18s. The goal was for something a little daintier (haha) than the Statements, and design had to offer an acceptable WAF. Between my imagination, inspiration from others' ornate box projects I've seen, and wood I could come up with, I kind of experimented and sorted it out as I went, and here is what I have so far.