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Well, I got the inspiration from this new Linn speaker:
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I really liked the idea of covering the speaker with a design. But then I got these BL5 of which I am very fond of their performance.
So I have been thinking of dressing up the BL5.
In the mean time I have all the geometric measurements of the bottom part, and also a template.
Now selecting the right fabric is the challenge.
So I just wrapped them in a fabric I found yesterday in a fabric shop. Before I am going to make the BL5 skirts I first will wrap them so I see if it suites my taste.
What do you think?
- Flere
smile and enjoy the moment
Honestly - and since you ask - this grumpy old mans opinion is that they look terrible like that, but I'm not sure howimportant it is what I think of it. It's your speakers. It's you and people close to you whoare going to look at them.I like them black, quietly expensive, recognizable, subtle but present.And it happens to be one of very few B&O products I don't like in white.If you prefer them any other way, go ahead.I find the Linns downright awful.Martin
Apart from colour or design I always thought that speaker fabrics had to be very thin so as to not interfere unduly with the sound output. However, there seems now to be a trend towards using heavier tweed like fabrics on speakers. Is the weight or weave of a speaker fabric not as important as some of us thought?
Graham
vikinger: Is the weight or weave of a speaker fabric not as important as some of us thought? Graham
Is the weight or weave of a speaker fabric not as important as some of us thought?
I guess it is!
On the other hand I am certain, that - at least by the BeoLabs - the influence of the fabric has been considered, when the speakers were 'tuned'.
MM
There is a tv - and there is a BV
Millemissen:I guess it is! On the other hand I am certain, that - at least by the BeoLabs - the influence of the fabric has been considered, when the speakers were 'tuned'. MM There is a tv - and there is a BV.
Flere:What do you think?
BeoNut since '75
I changed the fabric wrapping on my BL5's. It is a very open structure fabric so it will have no sound influence on the woofer.
Flere:I changed the fabric wrapping on my BL5's. It is a very open structure fabric so it will have no sound influence on the woofer. - Flere smile and enjoy the moment
Does it not diminish the resale value of the speakers? I suppose if that doesn't worry you then there's no reason not to customise them.
Flere: I changed the fabric wrapping on my BL5's. It is a very open structure fabric so it will have no sound influence on the woofer.
To be Honestly!Awful but everyone his own taste.I wil keep my BL5 with the black fabric.
I like them, the second fabric especially. It's good to think outside the box and be creative. Will very much depend on what else is in your room and the overall house/flat design etc.
B&O products are V1-32, BS2, H95, E8 and an Essence remote.11-46 now replaced with Sony A90J 65”, Sony HT-A9, Sony UBP-X800M2 and Sony SRS-NS7.
BAND'OH!:I like them, the second fabric especially. It's good to think outside the box and be creative. Will very much depend on what else is in your room and the overall house/flat design etc.
BenSA:Does it not diminish the resale value of the speakers? I suppose if that doesn't worry you then there's no reason not to customise them.
Flere:Below the fabric is the original black fabric. It is juist dressing up. The dress fabric is fastened with just 4 needle pins per speaker. The big trick is to cut the fabric in the right shape. I have calculated the geometry of the cone of the speaker and made my own cut template for this. So in 10 seconds they can be original black again. - Flere smile and enjoy the moment
Flere: So in 10 seconds they can be original black again.
So in 10 seconds they can be original black again.
Glad to hear that.'Nuff said.
Martin
That is realy good, so you can change it in no-time to the original black again.
Yes, yes. The black is likely the most "posh" or elegant or whatever other term anyone might want to use, but these are YOUR babies, and if you like it, that's all that matters. That being said, Flere, I love the second fabric. Really top notch! Reminds me of a Jackson Pollock painting.
Speaking of art, I never understood the hoopla and fascination with Jackson Pollack's work.
Jeff
I'm afraid I'm recovering from the BeoVirus.
Jeff: Speaking of art, I never understood the hoopla and fascination with Jackson Pollack's work.
... or for that matter, perhaps almost any modernist... like Kenneth Noland, Mark Rothko, Sol LeWitt, and the list goes on. he he he
-The New Yorker
I remember going to the Salvador Dali museum in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Way too much Dali for one museum or tour, but the interesting thing is that his early work, before he embraced surrealism, was hyperrealism, they looked more like photographs printed on canvas. And most of his truly famous works are tiny, The Persistence of Memory is smaller than a sheet of paper. At the end were these colossal canvases, easily over 10 feet high, the docent described as his "masterworks." Despite the fact that all of his most famous work seemed to be from his early period. I kept after her, why are these "masterworks" when the stuff in the early part of the museum are more well known? Finally she says, seriously too not facetiously, "because they're so large." So, we judge art by the square footage now? Area trumps quality?