Phooooooh, After more then 3 months, finally the Back Loaded Horn (BLH) are ready to be admired. It was a blessing ‘DO’ deployment this week that I had some time to work on the BLH.
Yesterday, one pc of the veneer was misaligned and need to be discarded. Same thing happened this morning. I almost gave up. An SOS was posted in diy forum and soon, advices came pouring in. It seems that I had no choice but to re sand the cabinet to remove the glue. Finally, at 5.30 pm (started doing it at 8 am) it was done. What a day.

Ok, will think of how to finish them later. Perhaps, just a 2 coats of shellac will do. As for now, I would just set them up for a listening test this weekend.

At 7 o’clock this morning my home balcony was turned into a workshop. While everyone else was sleeping, I eagerly worked on the veneering of the back-loaded speaker which was long overdue. This was my second diy project and I started building it in late July. LOL…….so you know what I meant by overdue.

Anyway, I spent five hours sweating in a balcony that looked more like a war zone. At 12 noon one speaker was done. By then, everyone was up so it was time to close the workshop and turn it back into what it was in the first place…..a balcony.

So woodworking tools were traded with broom and vacuum cleaner and by1 pm, all were back to normal, spic and span and it was a Saturday morning well spent.

the enclosure with only the baffle veneered.


the enclosure with all side veneered.

Yesterday was my first participation in NOISING. I brought my diy acrylic turntable (tt) and it created quite a buzz.
Unfortunately, the tt wasn’t performing well. Something was not right with the tt.
The experience diyers tried to trouble shoot but were not able to rectify it. Thus, my tt had to give way to other equipment.

Refusing to accept defeat, I spent the next hour figuring out what has gone wrong. Other diyers tried to assist in the trouble shoot. Finally at 5 pm (3 hours later), we managed to identify the problem……’the tracking force’.

Thus, a quick calibration was done and at 6 pm. Another shot was given to my tt.
Hey….. it works and sounded quite good. Too bad, I had to leave soon after.
Anyway it was a great weekend of sharing with hifi diyers.


fellow diyers


Thats my acrylic turntable


arranging the diy equipments.




another diy turntable

power amp with 2 light bulbs modeled on Nelson Pass's design