Love or hate speaker cabinets I made for Tannoy MG 15's

[WESTLOWER]

Nice looking speakers !!
What’s the volume size of the cabinet ?

[Denzil]

[Denzil]

Nice looking speakers !!
What’s the volume size of the cabinet ?

Volume is 155 ltrs (net) excluding bracing, speaker cone and cage, ports etc. Total is around 165 ltrs.

[Denzil]

Amazing. They are a work of art. I love that level of handmadeness! I can only imagine that they sound great too.

Thank you. That's a huge complement ! They sound magnificent. Much better than the Lancaster cabinets.

[graham67]

Great job Denzil , they look gorgeous.

[rigger67]

Stunning work, sir.

To a ham-fisted idiot like me living in the urban jungle - ie, no garden, no garage, three flights up - your handiwork is something I can only dream about.

The way you blended the cloth from the grille into the cabinet with that glorious retro logo .. it's simply gorgeous.

Beautiful stuff

[topoxforddoc]

Denzil,
I love the speakers, but I love your family resort even more - truly beautiful and an enduring part of your family's history.
Charlie

[Pharos]

This work exemplifies just how an individual as opposed to a mass producing company can pay much attention to the build quality of the cabinet and its damping. It would be prohibitively expensive for a company, and it also allows individual aesthetic choice.

[Mikeandvan]

Lovely, nice choice of cloth. Nice doggies too.

[fatmarley]

Thanks ! They sound magnificent. Tent to be slightly bass heavy but not boomy. But I'm working on that. Many because of room acustics, I think.

If you block one of the ports it will lower the tuning frequency (stuff something in tight, like some socks). I modelled the 15" Monitor gold in your enclosure and it looks like you will get either a large peak at the tuning frequency, or a dip in the midbass area. It's impossible to know without measurements. If you stuff a port (or two) and find the bass heavy sound is gone then all is good, but if you find you also lose midbass then the enclosure is too big.

I'd also experiment with removing the material on the shelf. For ports to work efficiently, you want a free passage from the driver to the ports. Another thing I'd do is lightly fill the whole section below the ports to reduce standing waves (assuming you can). Polyester stuffing would do the job.