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Sweet! I hope that picture is well secured!

You should post in the garage sale section. Good luck with your search.

I've not heard the 701s, but I grew up listening to my dads 901s powered by Harmon Kardon which I thought were great for casual music listening (go ahead...flame on). I wouldn't sell my dads speakers either. That being said, I would not pair them with Klipsch in a system. They're incompatible IMO.

I thought TC Sounds went out of business years ago. Where do you figure they got the driver?

Yeah, i'm not planning on loading the driver in my sub until i drag the box upstairs and get it into final position. You're kicking my arse in the sub building business BTW...i think i've been working on mine for nearly 6 months!

Looking great! The drivers are now out of stock on Parts Express so it's a good thing you grabbed them when you did.

Yes, that's what i had to do.

Here's where things stand after one coat of the tried & true oil finish. It's looking a bit flat to me, but I'm going to apply another coat and see how things shape up.

Is that the premium or standard mahogany? Looks really clean.

Just two 24"ers then?

This really looks nice, but why would you choose birch over cherry if you were going for the cherry color?

No, especially when you can get a r-115sw for less than that. Call Acoustic Sound Design and talk to Mike.

Every once in a while they'll have a refurbished Marantz TT-15 at a great price.

I used a chisel to take off a few high edges. The edges i took down were very slight to where they were more easily felt than seen.

The RS-62IIs had 1" titanium compression drivers according to the spec sheet. Are you talking about the new Reference Premier surrounds?

Wow, you're really moving on these. Looks like they're coming together really well and I bet that mahogany veneer is going to look fantastic. My sub had only one small low spot so i just used a bit of regular wall spackle to fill it in. I wasnt too worried about the bond between the spackle and MDF since it was just one small low spot. I probably would have used bondo if it were any bigger or closer to the edge, but I hate working with that stuff due to the smell. I am planning to use Tried and True Stain + Finish which is a polymerized linseed oil (http://www.triedandtruewoodfinish.com/products-landing/stain-finish/). I chose that because I'll need to do my finishing inside our home and i didnt want to stink up the place with fumes. If i had a ventilated climate controlled space, i probably would have gone with regular minwax stain and polyurethane like what Scrappy did on his recent speaker build. Do you have a veneer scraper? I used this one http://www.veneersupplies.com/products/Veneer-Scraper-for-Backed-Veneers.html# and it worked well.

It's actually still completely unfinished in that photo...just raw veneer. I've ordered a quart of the Tried and True Stain & Finish in Cherry, but i'm still waiting on it to be delivered. I needed something with no VOC's so i could work indoors without stinking up the house with fumes.

Agreed, it would be nice if the RS-62IIs had been available with the top and bottom pieces veneered like the Palladium surrounds.

Something like this KPT-250 maybe?

Mahagony can look nice, but i'm partial to Cherry for its warm rich tone.

Welcome to the forum pete. I'd try plugging it into the jack with the number 6 next to it. I'm just basing that on the handy graphic they put on the back of that model. You don't need to split the cable. Hope you stay around.

Yup, the actual baffle is only three layers of MDF so its 2.25" thick. The driver recess is 0.5".

Test fit...getting close now, I can almost feel the rumble!

This might show it better. I used a top bearing flush trim bit so the bearing could ride along the outer diameter of the template baffle and route out to the depth I needed.

This was my setup to cut the driver recess. I used the original diysoundgroup baffle as my template.