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You are welcome to come and audition them if you want.

The fuglies are easier to listen to than the Elsinores and more flexible with regards to room treatments (or lack of in my case). They don't play as low or as loud as the Elsinores. (I really should get in touch with Joe Rasmussen and update my Elsinores to the latest waveguide versions). I had the privilege of being lent some PHL midrange drivers and they were in the fuglies for a while and they were devine, a noticeable improvement on the HDS drivers.

The white ones are just a front baffle, a base plate and a vertical central brace. Are they classed as open baffles or are they something else?

Just to drag up an old thread from the death, but 12 years down the track and these open baffle fuglies still sing!! Even after being in storage in a damp shed for the last two years. Excuse the mess, new listening room/ home office still "under construction".

Welcome to my world of conflicting hobbies.

If I'm not rallying, count me in.

You guys, modding turbo cars, bloody hoons! Love it!

Ah, I see the bass traps are still ah la naturaaal! :nana

Triple glazing is 3 seperate panes of glass, seperated by 2 air gaps. The individual panes of glass may be "laminated" glass though. Argon is only sometimes used in insulated glass unit (two panes of glass sealed together, usually with an air gap of 12mm or less) as it reduces heat transmission through the glass unit. I reckon 99% of the insulated glass units being sold to the residential market, being labelled for acoustic purposes, would just have normal air inside them. But that being said, glass is crap for stopping low frequencies anyway unless you start using thick monolithic glass, and then laminating it to thinner panes of glass or polycarbonate to help dampen resonances and higher frequencies, but then it starts to get ridiculously expensive.

So glue the ply hard to the gyprock then Jake. Meanwhile I'll send off letters to numerous recording studios explaining why their very expensive, sloped, triple glazed windows designed by Acoustic Engineers should be ripped out and replaced with double glazed ones at a fraction of the cost. And what do you know, I can help them out with a quote at the same time seeing as we still have their jobs on file at work.:nana

Agreed, I reckon for about $15k, you could get it upgraded with new tubes etc, hdmi card, shipped here, installed, calibrated and include for the cost of a line doubler (at least). The picture would be bloody hard to beat in a light controlled room.

2 pack is so much easier to get a really good gloss finish, straight off the gun. If the surface is prepped well, very minimal sanding is required (if at all). I wonder if 2 pack clear would go over the back acrylic or whether it would eat it? Calling 56 Oval?

I haven't heard of this before, what is it?

Jake, use mass to stop low frequencies (eg ply etc). Air gaps between the panels are great for the higher frequencies.

You won't get a mirror glossy finish until you smooth it out with wet and dry and then buff it up. Be careful near the edges too.