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In Reply to: RE: So I'm re-foaming a pair of Thiel 04a Speakers... posted by MannyE on July 19, 2016 at 09:41:38:
Foam arrived today and I have to say that the Thiel reputation for overdoing things was evident in the packing. Holy shit dudes.
I quickly tested a little bit of the glue on it and then proceeded to go ahead and apply glue to the whole edge. That's backwards from the way I usually do it, but after this experience and how clean the results were, I may do it like this from now on.
It took about ten minutes to complete both woofers. I can say that the Simply Speakers glue works perfectly well. Too well! It usually has about 60 to 90 seconds work time to center everything but on this particular plastic the bond was instant. NO work time at all. If you look at the completed woofers, you can see the one on the right has a not so clean edge where I panicked a little but got it up in time. The one on the left came out flawless once I knew to be careful placing the surround.
There's no other way to say it. Get those grills on ASAP. These guys DO not look pretty without grills. I suspect that was done on purpose as the grill seems to seal to the enclosure and has a surrounding structure that goes tightly around the tweeter. Those strips on the side are made of some kind of thick sticky foam that seal the mid as well.
Here they are in the room. That's not where they go, but I am playing around with placement. I hooked them up to my RR2150 and Sony PS-X5 and wow! I love them. I initially played Steely Dan AJA and then threw on some Mozart quartet stuff and then Santana...all at moderate volume. I will wait until tomorrow to really crank it.
They are so far the best speakers I have found on my thrift/CL searches. A total of $125 bucks and two hours of time invested has yielded a very nice pair of speakers. Soon I will try the MMF-5 with the Goldring 1012GX cart through the Outlaw and see how that sounds. If you see a pair, buy them!
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Follow Ups
- So they are done! - MannyE 16:19:05 07/19/16 (3)
- RE: So they are done! - fantja 05:39:34 07/21/16 (0)
- RE: So they are done! - Awe-d-o-file 14:39:02 07/20/16 (1)
- RE: So they are done! - MannyE 17:01:23 07/20/16 (0)
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