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Ho ha I wonder what people will make of the above title. I was compelled to comment after telling a friend just now here in the high alps of North Western Italy about my Tannoy construction and the...

A challenge but a fantastic project to have completed. The sound of these will blow you away JohnJo.

https://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?12023-Westminsters

/Users/davidchambers/Desktop/IMG_9412.jpgWine Without Whisky Here
Well one way to improve your wine, particularly red, is to make your own. Start with a fantastic Italian variety Aglianico and...

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So having lived with these massive boxes now for almost ten years. OMG is it that long since I constructed in my garage in another place. Weirdly now I have a Workshop with a Saw Bench...

Adrian go for it. Such fun to build and not overly difficult with a few wood working skills. Interpreting the plans as scant as they are is the most difficult part.
The result is something you will...

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Hi All I do not regularly check in to follow my build. That is the Westminster Royals I built way back in 2011. But I find it comforting to know quite a few have been inspired to build these amazing...

Hey Josie Just realised you thought the photo was the back of my Westies. No it is not. This a factory built Westminster Royal SE or HE. My reason for adding same is to stress my point that the the...

Hey Josie
Very nice speakers I'm told. I have no issue with vibrations on the Xover boxes. But my driver is dampened by sand all around the internal box, very thick rear baffle around 40mm. Also...

22667I have agonised over the Serbian/Croation plans posted on DIY Audio and link posted on AoS. While I thank the guy for the plans, muddled as they are. If not for him I wouldn't have started.
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Hey Marco where in Japan. And what name. I will be there in two weeks. Love the Japanese attitude to hi Fi....come to think their philosophy of life, food and and and....well back to the Cafe you...

Hi Mark well as I sit here I am still yet to hear any incantations or replica's of Westies. But as always with the speaker being the end of the hi fi chain, you get out what you put in. And the...

What surprises me constantly. The source, ie; vinyl, CD or streaming makes a great deal of difference. I recently played an audiophile vinyl Anne Bisson, Winter In Montreal(outstanding detail) Where...

Hey Danilo
Yes I understand where you are coming from. I heard a pair of GRF at a mates place a year or so ago......disappointing is what I would say. And these built after waiting a year on special...

Recently moved the Westies to a new home and dedicated Music Room. Early report is they are sounding wonderful now that I have a solid concrete slab under them.

Hi Sam
I am yet to hear a pair of Westminsters myself. Though not for want of trying. Eerily I have an Esoteric Cd/DVD player, but alas no reading glasses on a chain.

Anybody but Simon built a pair of these. I see amongst 28,000 hits someone, surely someone took the plunge. I would be particularly interested if that someone changed the design in some way.

I didn't Richard

Yes the lead lining was a mini disaster. It seems the cabinets need the resonance of the outer panels as does a Double Bass for deeper notes. The treble was more pronounced but that could have been...

Yes I hear you asking but what are you going to do about the cabinet resonance on the outer wall of the Westies. Well not one to leave well enough alone. I thought I would fix lead lined Plywood or...

Excellent work Simon, as always. But how is the sound compared to the Westies.

Yes I think this could produce results

Yes energy is everywhere. Trying to isolate the box as much as possible. The speakers produce quite prodigious bass and these boxes are picking that up despite this isolation. Im wondering where does...

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Finally, at last, the Crossovers are external and located inside a couple of Tasmanian Blackwood boxes, sanded and bees waxed to death.
I would not have believed the sound could gain so much, the...