Mount an L-Pad and not ruin your cabinet

[Dave A]

So you have a tweeter that is overpowering your speaker for what ever reason and need to add an L-Pad to tame it down. The problem is you have a nice cabinet and don't want to hurt the value by drilling holes that can be seen. In addition to that you also have no riser that can hide the L-Pad so here is a suggested workaround.

 

 

 

 

In this exploded view the large piece of wood is the bottom of your cabinet. From the top down you have the L-Pad, your mounting block with a counter bored hole in it to allow for the L-Pad nut. your L-Pad nut which will fasten the L-Pad to the block, foam tape to create a leak free buzz free mounting to the cabinet base which is the last piece. Not shown are the four screws that would fasten the L-Pad block to the cabinet base using the four small corner holes.

 

 

Bottom view showing hole in cabinet bottom and L-Pad stem for adjusting.

 

 

 

 

 

Now how to adjust. You have to do some measuring and order the right length stem on the L-Pad to match the various pieces of wood but make sure the L-Pad stem does not extend past the bottom of the cabinet. As you can see by tilting the speaker over you can access the L-Pad stem and use the slot on the top to adjust with a flat end screw driver.

 

 If you decide to sell the speaker in the future and want to remove and save your modification parts remove the L-Pad, flip your mounting block over and screw the wood top side without the foam tape  to the inside bottom of the cabinet and make sure to move it over an inch or so to make sure the hole in the bottom of the cabinet is covered over. You can easily fill a half inch hole with wood putty with the backing in place and then finish and you will not harm the value of the cabinet in any way.