Mr K

I watched Pt 2 over the weekend and refreshed with Pt 1 the night before. Stunning, sound was very well done. Has got me searching for the next realese date.

Hi Thomo, The finish is a combination of a good base and top coats. The base is epoxy used to fill the grain, seal and provide a stable base, epoxy used here was West 105 base with 207 hardener three coats applied and sanded in between each. The top coats are Mirotone polyurathane PU 5555 full gloss with the apropriate hardener and thinners and sprayed about eight coats sanding flat between coats. About a week later once cured a final sand from 1200 to 2500 wet and dry sand and buffed to a mirror finish using Farecla G3 and a final wax. Speakers are sounding wonderful, one of the best things I've done for my system. Now I'm just wondering where I go Amp wise for the next upgrade. Cheers Mark

Thanks for all the kind words gents, I don't have a broad knowledge of lots of speakers, prior to these, I had a pair of Osborn EOS reference speakers in this room (which I still own and very happy with) for several years. So I wanted to update the system and the felt that the best value for money was the speakers. The Osborn's are very nice in this room. The Ekta 7741 has certainly delivered with great detail, dynamics and especialy with the bottom end extention. Cheers Mark

Hi Type 1, Thanks for the kind comments. I am very familiar with Plywood myself and these are Baltic Birch not Hoop Pine as you have suggested, just want to make that clear. Cheers Mark

Speakers all finished, the crossovers were all wired as on Troels website . Finish was flat wet sanded after numerous sprayed coats of two pack poly and finally polished to a mirror finish. These speakers have now been in my system for a few weeks, Amp used is Exposure 2010S2D, the main source is my old faithful OPPO 95 for both Flac files and CD's . They also operate as the speakers for TV and radio . Very happy with the result and have achieved what I was aiming for, My room size for these is approx. 9m x 5m. Happy to answer any questions Cheers Mark

Thanks for the comments gents, I can see the why there is caution when the $ figure is presented with kit price, exchange rate, and duties all add up. This did take me quite a while and trying to decide which of his speaker designs would best suit my purpose and room. In my case the building of the speaker boxes was never a problem it's just time . So the way I see it is I'm getting a very well deigned with top quality components pair of speakers at what I think is a bargain price. Cheers Mark

This is the way the legs fit across the bottom of the speakers, a skirt was added to fill in the spaces. And now that all wood work is finished it's on with the grain fill process for this I'm using epoxy resin, it's a slow process painting on with a small brush and heavy sanding back to a flat surface. Usually three coats one at a time. This is then final sanded flat and there should be no imperfections at this stage, this makes the perfect stable base for the spraying of the final finish. These are the pics of the final coat of epoxy this will set for a week before the final sand. So now just the sand up and onto the spraying. Cheers Mark

Time to make the support legs, for this I've used heavy duty cabinet adjusters and an Aluminium bar 40mm x 25mm and drilled and tapped to accommodate the threads . Top section of the baffle glued in and I've sealed the wood with epoxy to prevent any staining from the glue when I glue on the lower baffle, this makes clean up much easier. The felt also glued in at this stage. Cheers Mark

Boxes were glued together and for this I used Titebond III for all else I have used Titebond original. The Baffle was made of solid Blackwood but I selected a very heavy dense board for the purpose. The tweeter section was rebated into the box and the mid/ woofer section goes in front of the box. Rebates for the drivers And the rear relief for the drivers More to follow Cheers Mark

Hi guys just want to share my recent build the Troels Ekta 7741 I’ve basically stuck to the plans as best I can and all dimensions are the same. As any of you know it’s impossible to get the 20mm Baltic birch ply here in Aus. So my approach has been to use 15mm BB and laminate a 5mm solid wood over that to bring it up to the 20mm required. To do this I purchased 200 x 25mm Blackwood boards which I hand selected for consistent grain and machined them to get nine panels from each board 60 x 5 mm and took note of their orientation so as to laminate them back together to give a centre butterfly join done the centre of each speaker side panel. Panels were machined as normal not glued together yet just a test run until I'm satisfied with the fit. I used 18mm BB for the bracing. More to follow Cheers Mark

I've just checked on my 95. If you put a CD in there is no track list information that comes up it just plays from start to finish with only the ability to skip etc. I normally use mine with my CD's burnt to a SSD (flac). From this you can select which tracks you want and make a play list, all from the players remote. However it does not save play lists you have to make a new one each time you turn it on .

Hi Wippet, I also am a new owner and took advantage of the great pricing and purchased a 9900. Out of the box the E Shift is defaulted to on, this means that it would be hard to get any focus on a pixel as it is moving. In the first menu page you will find MPC, go in here and turn it to 2k. That will turn off the E shift and make the pixels static and you should see the pixels as posted at the beginning of this thread. Mine are pretty even across the screen. This would have to be the best value for money projector ever. Thrilled with mine. Cheers Mark

That looks fantastic ? You could try Ivan Richards amps in Gosford , a well respected Guitar amp guy. Cheers Mark

Thanks guys , and Hippy the oval shape was done using guide lines and hand planer , followed by sanding . All the usual stuff. Cheers Mark

Some lovely work here , enjoyed browsing through the posts . First post here by me , Just some speaker stands made for my Osborn EOS reference speakers . Jarah with Wenge and Koto highlights . And a section showing the profile the Jarah centre is 50mm x 200mm . Cheers Mark