Ran across these Thiel parts on ebay. Based on the drivers used in the speakers, we could figure out what size openings they have. Thiel for sale | eBay
I just bought 4 of the 56uf Clarity Caps that seller has for sale. They sure don’t look pristine, but that’s fine with me as long as they measure fine.
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The Menards in my area have the “value shelving” piles red tagged at $1.00/shelf (discounted from the normal 2.99). Picked up 4 really nice 3/4" x 11.5" x 48" laminated shelves for 4 bucks!! It’s a nice black laminate, so now I will not have to paint the woofer boxes for my Indy build!
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$7 bass shaker at Newark, clearance pricing. A guy could series/parallel a shitload of these for an interesting couch sitting experience.
https://www.newark.com/mcm-custom-audio/bt-50/low-frequency-transducer-100w/dp/71Y5716
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CSS has been running daily sales (12 Days of Christmas). Today’s is particularly good…Buy 3 LDW7’s ($199 ea and get a 4th free).
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I’d have to say those are the most satisfying 6.5" (or 7") I’ve heard!
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XXLS 830845 $106.35 +tax, tarrif, and shipping: XXLS-P830845 Peerless by Tymphany | Audio Products | DigiKey
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Other than being 8 ohms, that is a banger of a price.
I was ready for $50 tariff, but in the cart is says $106.35 + $6.99 shipping + $10.64 tariff = $123.98.
Even better, price at Qty 25 = $80.06 ea.
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I could not refuse approx 50% off. Got Qty 4 of the XXLS 12 inch for $513 shipped.
Now dreaming of a whomping 12 inch monkey coffin 3 way.
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Now 96 available!
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This requires devil horns reaction option 
. I vote to replace the smiling hugs 
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I work so slow, and much of the effort in a build is crossover tweaking, I now try to build 2 pairs - one for me, and one for a buddy.
HI Don, When you get them, can you please post actual TS Specs for them if you can? if poosible before and after break in?
This seems quite the woofer, found a post of 8 ohm onw by @tktran303 from DiyAudio
Given the discounted cost, these have quite the numbers.
Sure. cook them for a couple of hours on heavy bass, let cool down and measure.
The 8 ohm is a good problem to have, IMHO. I use them as woofers, paired/wired in parallel-
This is fully active 3-way crossover, hand-tuned by DSP, so it has an unfair advantage (smoother than most passive speakers)
But in a passive design, after baffle step losses, in a 3.5 cu. ft. cabinet, one can still achieve a sensitivity ~92 dB / 2.83V (4 ohm), with an F10 of 32 Hz, all whilst having a baffle that’s relatively slim (13”)
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Looks great, what’s the box model you are using for the 3 way? and/or do you have a link to your desing?
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Gray line is 2pi (ala winISD), brown line takes into account baffle shape and passive components, cyan is max SPL taking into account excursion, power and cabinet volume.
Since it uses a midrange that’s not available off-the-shelf, I didn’t bother with a writeup.
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