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Re: How to nearly ruin a good set of speakers unless you're artistic.

Friedmett — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:13:02 GMT

I would never ruin any original B&O. It's morally incorrect to me.

The former owner of my Beovox M150 speakers talked about he might had painted them black before the auction which I won. I told him if that was the case I would not have been bidding at all.

Re: How to nearly ruin a good set of speakers unless you're artistic.

Calvin — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:00:27 GMT

http://calvingraham.co.uk/mysetup2.jpg

is a bit closer. Maybe i will tidy up the lines if/when i do some more work. For now it looks fine unless you're less than a few feet away. I also have a fairly dimmed, 60ish look to the place which helps (other than for photography). I ponder with what with the painting oging on (deliberate or not) whether a 'pimp my hifi' trend will kick off on a larger scale?

Re: How to nearly ruin a good set of speakers unless you're artistic.

Jandyt — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:48:59 GMT

Struggling to see this

Andy T.

Re: How to nearly ruin a good set of speakers unless you're artistic.

Calvin — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:46:19 GMT

Well here's a picture of one of the speakers. You really can't see the tear in the cloth now. Being a film man myself, refusing to buy a digital camera, I've had to crop two poor quality webcam shots together. Obviously I need to paint the wires for my newly mounted speakers. I'm also quite tempted to extend the pattern on the speaker cover, maybe a combination of horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines to create an almost Mondrian-esque look

http://www.calvingraham.co.uk/mysetup.jpg is the link, i can't get it to paste in properly

Re: How to nearly ruin a good set of speakers unless you're artistic.

Puncher — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:39:21 GMT

Calvin:
I'll get some done tomorrow when I've hung them up. I'm waiting for the NoMoreNails to dry on the brackets I screwed and glued up. I should say thatnks to joeyboygolf for selling me the two of them! Maye I should have waited a day or two to write the post but I wanted to get it off my chest, so to speak.

Now that could be interesting! Hung over anything expensive????

Re: How to nearly ruin a good set of speakers unless you're artistic.

Puncher — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:37:36 GMT

As an aside - if we can help anyone destroy anything even more expensive please ask!

Re: How to nearly ruin a good set of speakers unless you're artistic.

Calvin — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:36:33 GMT

I'll get some done tomorrow when I've hung them up. I'm waiting for the NoMoreNails to dry on the brackets I screwed and glued up. I should say thatnks to joeyboygolf for selling me the two of them! Maye I should have waited a day or two to write the post but I wanted to get it off my chest, so to speak.

Re: How to nearly ruin a good set of speakers unless you're artistic.

Jandyt — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:33:04 GMT

Last night we helped Mobeyone to wreck a £175 lampshade so you're not alone!
Come on Calvin, we need photo's

Andy T.

Re: How to nearly ruin a good set of speakers unless you're artistic.

The Stig - ver. 1.7 — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:31:12 GMT

Any pictures

Re: How to nearly ruin a good set of speakers unless you're artistic.

Puncher — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:28:42 GMT

Calvin:
Well, tonight I decided to fix my RL45's which had a nick in the cloth. I planned to put an inch wide red line over the gash with an acrylic paint. Anyway, I popped into the local DIY shop and decided to kill two birds with one stone by using (acrylic) spray paint, as I needed some for another non-related task anyway. So I use masking tape and get the line all set up and spray. I remove the tape and discover the paint has soaked into the nearby cloth, leaving a horrible look like I just splilled paint in a rough line. Following this, I decided that rather than paint the entire cloth red, I would make it a feature and went on to use a combination of a lighter orangy/pink colour regular paint, a black marker pen and a ruler. I must say, the end result is probably not to most people's tastes, but it does look quite funky and I have a fairly retro look in the flat anyway. The end lesson for people? Always really think once, twice and three times before you think about customising or doing work on any B&O equipment whatsoever. If needbe, ask Beoworld or a friend for a second opinion, even if you're fairly confidany about what you're doing.

Pictues????

Re: How to nearly ruin a good set of speakers unless you're artistic.

Craig — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:28:15 GMT

Calvin, can you please do some pictures.

Craig

How to nearly ruin a good set of speakers unless you're artistic.

Calvin — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:24:39 GMT

Well, tonight I decided to fix my RL45's which had a nick in the cloth. I planned to put an inch wide red line over the gash with an acrylic paint. Anyway, I popped into the local DIY shop and decided to kill two birds with one stone by using (acrylic) spray paint, as I needed some for another non-related task anyway. So I use masking tape and get the line all set up and spray. I remove the tape and discover the paint has soaked into the nearby cloth, leaving a horrible look like I just splilled paint in a rough line. Following this, I decided that rather than paint the entire cloth red, I would make it a feature and went on to use a combination of a lighter orangy/pink colour regular paint, a black marker pen and a ruler. I must say, the end result is probably not to most people's tastes, but it does look quite funky and I have a fairly retro look in the flat anyway. The end lesson for people? Always really think once, twice and three times before you think about customising or doing work on any B&O equipment whatsoever. If needbe, ask Beoworld or a friend for a second opinion, even if you're fairly confidany about what you're doing.