You use it!
I've been meaning to throw a pair of OB speakers together for a while (had
the ideal drivers kicking about for ages - Visaton B200s) and never got
round to it, but I was sent a pic of some nice OBs the other day and they
got me thinking.....
They were stood out in the middle of a room which I thought wouldn't have
been doing them any favours and it caused me to wonder what slotting a pair
into the corners of my room and *using* the 'liveliness' to boost the bass
would work like? Add to that I've been falling over a bloody great, *heavy*
piece of board (white plastic faced 18mm MDF) in my garage for a while, so I
duly threw a pair together - it took about 3.5 hours and the only scrap left
over from a piece of board 54 x 48 inches was two 48 inch lengths about 1
inch wide and the circles from the cutouts for the drivers!!
So in true Show N Tell tradition*, here's the story:
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/obspeakers1.JPG
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/obspeakers2.JPG
Miking them thus:
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/obspeakers3.JPG
I grabbed a couple of extracts from the 'Road To Hell' CD:
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...0(Extract).mp3
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Daytona.mp3
And some shorter samples from a fairly weedy 'test CD' (it's French - what
do you expect?) which, I think, demonstrate superb clarity - headphones will
give you a better idea but ignore the 'heartbeat' which seems to have crept
back into the equation.....
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Sample%2001.mp3
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Sample%2002.mp3
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Sample%2003.mp3
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Sample%2004.mp3
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Sample%2005.mp3
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Sample%2006.mp3
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Sample%2007.mp3
http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Sample%2008.mp3
Anyway, I was very pleasantly surprised indeed - see what you think!
(The milkman freaked out and dropped his yoghourt...!! ;-)
*It's what I do, I don't have a past lifetime's experience of 'audio' - mine
is *here and now*!!