Boomzilla Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 BACKGROUND: My LaScalas came to me in profoundly rough shape. They are a 1980 model with the woofer access port on top with a screwed-in lid to allow access. To temporarily make them attractive, I covered them in "peel-and-stick" flooring planks and covered the entire front with a grill. PROPOSED: I'm thinking of doing the following: cutting the top off the existing cabinetsflipping the bass cabinet so that the woofer access port is on the bottomcutting the bass cabinet so that the (new) bottom is "angled" (does away with the need for a riser)replacing the woofershaving a local cabinet shop recover the bass cabinet with 3/4" veneered plywoodcovering the front of the new bass cabinet with a grillmounting the midrange horn atop the new cabinetmoving the crossover from the top to the back of the cabinetmaking a riser to align the tweeter (now mounted vertically rather than horizontally) in the plane of the midrange driver RESULTS: This would leave the midrange and tweeter horns completely exposed, giving the speaker an industrial, "steampunk" look. It would also time-align the midrange and tweeter horns (whether it makes any difference or not, I don't know). Should I not like the look or sound, I could just build a top cabinet (ala La Scala II) and remount the horns in it. That would be a more attractive solution, although it wouldn't provide the time alignment that the staggered horn arrangement would. Wha'dya think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Just tossing out an idea to confuse you a bit... What if instead, you chopped the top off (or kept it), sold the existing horns & drivers (keeping the woofer driver) and convert it into a 2-way JubeScala? I'm not saying it's cheap nor good looking. What it is though is a significant step up in performance and sound over the stock LaScala. In fact, while you're at it, you could add the stiffeners or an extra layer of plywood to help kill the sidewalls from resonating. Here's a picture with the smaller K510 horn installed inside the top Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Here's the balls to the wall K402 'Warthog' The engineering has been done on these to convert them to a 2-way when using an active crossover (yet another expense). I think a passive exists for the K510 (smaller horn) in this application but I'm not aware of a passive for the K402 (the larger horn) Simply food for thought Do a search on JubeScala and you'll probably find a handful of threads/comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Proof of in home application (not my home, these are not ugly enough to go into my home [] ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Coytee, The pro type LaScala with the 510 is a thing of beauty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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