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DUCK Season!

It's amazing in this day of the awesome smartphone point and shoot photos that many people can't seem to take anything but really fuzzy pictures of their equipment that conveniently hides many flaws! I can look at a dozen pictures and still be surprised by what I get. I've also bought some beautiful equipment that sounded horrible. I was going to recap anyway but it was definitely misrepresented. If it is 40+ years old and they say it has been "serviced" I factor in the fact that I will likely have to have it rebuilt.

Looking at those pictures I can almost hear the cap scream as it was torn apart! 😱

Square rooms suck! Not very helpful but I can empathize.

Wow! Cool room but what an echo chamber! The unsymmetrical walls make for less predictable reflections but sometimes aiming the speakers on the diagonal in the room can have a positive effect on getting rid of some of the peaks and nulls. You can hardly avoid that anywhere in the room anyway. Absorption is needed... first reflections etc... you have been given some direction. REM produced some harsh recordings I'm afraid... your speakers are just brutally revealing the poor recording choices... no amount of fixing the room will fix those recordings but down the road I'd attack those with Chris A's approach! Just a thought... a good image and proper sound stage is important to me. I've found it difficult to get if right in crazy shaped rooms though. I've found adding some diffusion can help to take crazy placed walls out of the equation a bit. Others who know more about why that works might be able to add more to the conversation.

"thinner" is a pretty good word for it!

I screwed mine from inside the bin. Take off the bottom for access and you can tighten the screws on the woofer while you are there as well.

Why are you yelling? Yeah, we get it... there is no such thing as a perfect speaker. A person can be perfectly happy with what they have though. Just as they can be perfectly happy tweaking and changing things endlessly.

They are in various condition when we get them as well. Mine were attached to an organ in a choir loft for nearly 40 years and were quite dry and chipped. Tightening screws and re-gluing the joints was necessary for them to sound awesome again. One plus was that the mid and tweeter drivers had been attenuated so they barely saw any use for all those years.

GASP! OTHER speakers?! EGADS!!

Yes, that would be the weakest area prone to vibration.

I found this peak when I was measuring pink noise a few years ago. At the time I thought it was something crazy about my room causing the peak. Using DSP in FOOBAR the closest I could come was to cut 156Hz about 7db that I just came about by ear... there was still a peak even with the 7db cut but cutting any more sounded worse. LaScala's are still awesome!

Again... try a bar clamp if you have one long enough (or borrow one) to reach across the front of the speaker. Not as good as an installed brace but will give you an idea. It doesn't cure everything but bracing will take the buzz away and tighten up the bass.

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There were pictures and some threads on the forum about this but it has been a while... a quick search didn't come up with any. I should correct my response to JoeM38... that EQ to cut the peak could ALSO be helpful as much as I hate EQ. You just have to get those walls to stop flapping first. I'll look for some pictures.

To test take a bar clamp that is long enough to clamp across the entire front of the bin. You might want to protect the wood finish with something. Clamp down just enough to hold it firm. Listen to the difference. Not something I would leave in place but this would give you an idea. Actual braces glued and screwed would do the job better. These old speakers might vary in their condition... older and dried out plywood might be "looser" and have more resonance than other cabinets.

Brace the cabinets. Mine resonated badly prior to bracing that no manner of EQ would fix... well, not so it would sound good.

Awesome ! Congratulations and enjoy!!

I've loved the West Systems epoxy... have you ever used that? Wondering about comparisons. https://www.jamestowndistributors.com/userportal/show_product.do?pid=3842

You haven't read your handbook... Render unto Thebes what is Thebes'

Gotta just LOVE streaming the Beatles over highfalutin cables! Wait a minute... If there is no singer who's politics is going to be spewed at us?

Interesting! This would be good for a build I've been considering for a friend.

as you should have. Most of us are constricted by budgets though and sometimes come off seeming pretty cheap. Of course, some of us don't just seem cheap.

Who in their right mind would consider 50 bucks a fair amount?!? Besides the seller I mean.