The White Van Project

MARINLAW

Vintage is Bliss
On my local Facebook i came across a full White Van system ( Klasen Audio )
Containing 5 speakers 2 towers that have the look of the B&W 6 series . and only wanted 40$ for the entire set so i thought Hey why not .
And how Good can i make them sound without spending more then $50 extra Dollars

So it begins
ITS A FAKKKEEE
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Out that Fake crap comes
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10$ from my local second hand shop a pair of bookshelf speakers with crap cabs but the tweeters are good
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The Stock Woofers ' Ive seen worse ( still better then a lot of those cheap LG and Sony big stereo systems in shops today
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least the cabs are 15 MM . and look theres a brace . Sony with there Muteki could learn something here , if the chinese's poorest speakers can have bracing so can you LOL .
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Congratulations on your bravery, not many here are willing to post on such low-brow beginnings. I salute you. Oh and......

:lurk:

I have a line on a set of '80's Fishers I might be redoing.
 
UPDATE

The terminals that where on it where total rubbish so for 3$ each i have new ones
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since the cabs are only 15 mm thick i decided to give it a bit of bracing COST nothing as this is left overwood from a car audio install i did , hope this stops the nasty cab flex
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since the woofer has a metal cone and had no crossover in the mids it would have a nasty ringy sound so a inductor was needed ( Cost $0 parts i already had ( also the adding of poly Fill ( also no cost as out of a old subwoofer box
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well both are put together fully braced . each cab has 3 Braces on each side for a total of 6 on each cab . all reglued . they do well in the side rapp test with the nuckles . better then a fair few speakers ive repaired in my time
 
to the sound . well im very impressed . the bass is now solid and doesnt sound like throwing a basketball at the ground . the tweeters i already knew sounded good so yeah .
The mids , bracing the cabs has made a vast improvement on the quality of the sound it doesnt sound like the mids are harsh with a touch of resonance
 
Is there a port at the bottom? Is the port fake? I'm thinkin' that the 1 woofer is fake vs. being a passive radiator. Obviously tuning it changes that.
 
Ok, my mental picture is clear now.

The one woofer was definitely fake, since the OEM used a port. It would have been crazy to engineer in both, and using the term "engineering" barely fits here.

I think you went the right way with this. Purchasing another driver would have detracted from the fun part of this build.
 
Well done!
Now that you've re-engineered these things, it's time for Klausen to hire you and step out of the shadow of the white van. Maybe Divinci will make a counter-offer for your skills.
 
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