Cool. DMT15 drivers? I assume the elegant boot-print on the front baffle occured as you had to route the hole bigger to front-load the driver? Are you going to beef the construction up or alter the pizza delivery slot port at all? I think if it was me and I had your woodworking skills I'd plane the front lip off and build another nicer-looking cab around them, i.e. double all the pannel walls from the outside. The baffle is very thin and is likely the weakest link IMO. It is interesting to see how Lockwood get around that one, still a very thin baffle, but much smaller and better supported as it is bolted onto another layer in the cab (the rest of the Lockwoods are covered in Formica which is a seriously dead material so different rules apply).
That are starting to look great now. I really like the style of this speaker.
Never seen the likes of the theatre frames before, most odd. I'd have expected them to have no bass at all and to be all but useless. With a wide baffle attached and flown in a corner they might make more sense. Very strange indeed!
Cheers, the reassuring thing too is that you can't misalign the mag/top-plate on the frame thanks to the really tight tolerances.
I was wondering about that! Good job anyway, do they actually sound/measure the same? I suspect the later drivers such like this are far more accurately machined, the vintage classics have a very hand built/aligned feel to them, not that I'd ever be wanting to take a basket off!
The Yorkminster driver is interesting; it really does look like a Gold magnet assembly stuck onto a modern basket. I assume the peperpot/horn is very similar too?