One of the more interesting things I heard with the S40s was an extremely wide sound stage. At the end of Jethro Tull's "Slip Stream," there is some panning right and left of the fade out music. At one point what I heard was the illusion of the sound source being 2 or 3 feet to the right of the right speaker! And this coming from speakers

Next up were the S40s. I put them on the 51 cm tall end-tables-on-their-side. Without changing the volume of the BM2400 or the iPod, I started listening to the S40s with "Slip Stream" and "Locomotive Breath." I was not prepared for what I heard. Wow. The S40s sounded better than the M70s. But here's the kicker: they were much

I started with the M70s on the 17 cm stools. I experimented a bit with the volume level, until I thought I found a sweet spot for both the receiver and the speakers. I started playing through the list above, and almost immediately I knew I had to get them higher off the floor. I put them on the 40 cm end tables, and then restarted the play list. I also

I had a couple of little stools and pair of unfinished pine end tables from IKEA to serve as make-shift stands. This was by no means going to be anything like a scientific test. I just wanted to listen to the M70s against a pair of speakers I knew were at least quite decent. At the same time, this would be the first time I've listened to my S45

And now I have a pair. I pulled my beat up, but otherwise fully functional, Beomaster 2400 in from the garage to form the heart of a makeshift listening room in the dinette. I put the radio on, and funny enough, Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" was playing. Generally when I fix a speaker, the first thing I do is give it a "Whole Lotta

Didn't take many pictures today. Just pressing through to the finish. I did, however, pause to take a shot of applying the new gasket material. Thought there might be some interest in this for possible other applications.

Here's the status of the other speaker. Still have to: Solder some driver wires to the woofer/phase link board then mount the board in the cabinet Connect the terminal cup to the boards Regasket the back and the drivers (except the midrange - the midrange mounts from the inside and its gasket was still in fine shape) Mount the back Solder the driver

Hey what's that sitting in the corner? Why, that's a reassembled M70! One down, one to go.

[quote user="Eugene"] This here refurb has been brought to you by Fujicon !!! Maker of low cost, high temp, low ESR general purpose radial capacitors. [/quote] At least they're small, unlike these:

The woofer/phase link half does fit in the bottom of the cabinet. I got the second one done tonight so I went ahead and checked fit by remounting one of the woofers. The board is sitting on 3 blocks of wood about 20 mm x 30 mm x 3 mm. I'll glue the blocks to the cabinet tonight then mount the board to the block with screws. I also played with placement