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I had a pair of Jaycar 5" woofer\mids hanging about for years, unused and decided to build a simple 2-way using the 1" silk dome tweeter also from Jaycar. I wanted add external Xover and have the speakers bi-wired all the way from the amp to the drivers. A friend, very good with woodwork built the 15ltr boxes to my specs. I added vertical bracing to all sides and lined the inside with bitumanised heavy Al foil (flashing). Dacron was added around the bracing then one additional layer added throughout the box. Not overly damped. I added flashing to the back of the driver and the basket to dampen rear reflection. The rear port is quite small but works extremely well starting at 100hz and taking these small boxes down to 40hz. Nothing after 40hz though. The Xover nearly cost more than the speakers but is simple and X's over at 3,200Hz based on a linkwitz-riley calc. I tried other calcs. but they sounded awful. The external Xover is packed with dacron in an ABS enclosure and all binding post are gold plated brass. bi-wiring extend from the amp to driver and the two only share a common at the amp. I used split pair solid core Cat5 from amp, through Xover and inside speakers. One wire type, one configuration right through. These cheap boxes sound better my $6.5K 45kg Osborn towers. To improve the bottom end I added stereo sub-woofers powered by electronic Xover (60hz) and 50W Class D amp. See other post. Since these images have been taken removable metal grills held with rare earth magnets have been added. The finish is built-up with a combination of wet and dry rollers and is very thick, soft and heavily stippled. It is acoustically quite dead unlike a wood veneer or piano finish which reflects and radiates.

Item:JBL amplifier with in-built 24db/octave crossover at 800HzLocation:Newcastle NSWPrice:$500 each (4 available)Item Condition:UsedReason for selling:ClearoutPayment Method: Pickup - Cash, Paypal, COD OnlyExtra Info: Very rare 4 ch amplifier to make JBL speakers active!Manual for setup supplied. Front panel perfect, but may have a mark or two on top.I have 1 available (rest are gone) which came out of a private Cinema studio complex. I believe they are similar to those used by both Sony and George Lucas's studios... (See the second last picture taken at George Lucas's Studio ranch). Manufactured by AB international in the USA, who also make Verastarr and Cinepro big $$$ amps. Final picture is the Verastarr Cinema reference 6 which sold for over $10000, look familiar? I found this picture on the site of HiFiZonehttp://www.abamps.net/prices-models/Will post at buyers expense.Pictures:

Item: 1pair Dali DaCapo Ribbon Speakers. Vintage unknown but Dali top of line speaker from 1988 to 1992. Location: Sydney Price: $1,200 including 2 spare ribbons valued at $200 each Item Condition: Ribbons & woofers fully functional, crossover capacitors refreshed 1 year ago. Ribbon grill cloth could do with a refresh. Black grill cloth fine on woofer box. Reason for selling: 1 more pair than required Payment Method: Pickup - Cash Extra Info: Brochure here http://www.dali-speakers.com/en-US/Loudspeakers/Discontinued-series-1/DALI-DaCapo.aspx [Danish] Manual here Drivers: Woofer - 10" X 40" membrane driven by 8" woofer - the manual will describe why Midrange/tweeter - 40" ribbon Frequency Response - 45 - 20kHz +/- 4dB Sensitivity (2.83V) - 85dB @ 1m Recommended amplifier - 50 to 200W / channel [easy to drive as the ribbon is 4ohm & not capacitive nor inductive] Dimensions Height - 118cm Depth (inc. base) - 31cm Depth (exc. base) - 15cm Width - 45cm Weight - 30kg each Pictures: Will attach later when PC decides it will let me without Explorer crashing

Brand new, unopened box. Rosenut finish. Can freight at buyer's expense. Can deliver to Brisbane/Ipswich are (within reason) for modest fee. Questions welcome. First picture is for illustration only, as I don't want to open the box. Cheers, Rob.

Item: Large bookshelf or stand mount DIY 2-ways speakers Location: Langwarrin Price: $200 (below cost of parts) - with donation to SNA if they sell at this price Item Condition: As new 9.5/10 Reason for selling: Too many speakers Payment Method: Pickup - Cash, Paypal, COD Only Extra Info: These excellent looking and great sounding speakers comprise a 6.5" woofer\mid and isodynamic ribbon tweeter. 2nd order (-12/db/octave) Xover. Xover point at 2.1KHz. Brass gold plated single 3-way binding posts on rear. Xover comprise large air core chokes and 100V proper Xover polies. All internal wiring is solid copper. Boxes are 19ltr and the box and port design are by computer modelling. The tweeters were balanced by ear. These speakers test dead flat from 50Hz to over 22K. Lower 3db point is 40Hz with some output at 30Hz. Sensitivity is about 88db and the speakers have worked well with 5W SET amps. The finish is a heavy stippled black paint. It is very tough, washable and light and acoustically dead. Internally the boxes are heavily braced and with multilayers of Dacron and bituminised heavy Al lined. Bass is exceptional and at a demo at the Melbourne Audio club a number of members were surprised by bass extension and depth. They also liked the overall sound. http://retro-thermionic.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/voxdeux65-2-way-with-65-woofermid-and.html Pictures: