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How to improve your Polks (or... how to build Tannolks)

Redboy

Redboy

a few good watts
Start with some nice SDAs, and remove the drivers...

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Chop 'em up...

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Build new baffles and port them.

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Brace them...

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Say, that's some nicely done work there, I am interested to see how the whole project finally comes together

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I can't believe someone would do that to those cabinets.
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Sacrilege!!! :yes:

Look what else he did!

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And after! He defaced 'em!!! :sigh: (Mighty nice baffles, though! :scratch2:)

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Just so everyone knows, we did not dismantle a working pair of SDA's. The cabinets were empty when picked up on Craig's by doucanoe.

Thanks to Ray for help with the porting ans such.
 
Cabinets lined with convoluted foam (Love those oak braces!):

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Gary will have to explain how he did the ports - it's pretty slick! :thmbsp:

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Bases filled and capped off, and here's where they stand...

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Ports, an explanation of sorts.

The baffle has a 3" hole routed to match the inside of the 3" port tube. I then route a hole the diameter of the outside of the port in 1/2" plywood. Slide the port into the 1/2" plywood and attach the 1/2" to the front baffle lining up the inside of the port with the port hole on the baffle. Fin!

The ports are snug, but removable if one desires to play with port size in the future.

The bases were filled with MDF to give them some weight.
 
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