MEADOWLARK AUDIO SHOP PICS

[thin_ice]

Hi Pat. I dont think? you are a member over on Steve Hoffmans forum, but people (at least one person 3 people ) want to hear your speakers. From this thread (post #192). I can pass on a message if you like.

I’d love to hear some Meadowlark speakers, does the company ever do audio shows?

 

[AudioFanKJ]

I would be pleased to extend an audition of the Meadowlark Nightingales with or without the Meadowlark Pelican infrasonic sub... I am in the greater Atlanta area...

Dated pic below. Have upgraded the SGC / miniDSP to the Grimm Audio MU1. In process of final tweaking and will have to snap some updated photos...

 

[Pat McGinty]

Hi Pat. I dont think? you are a member over on Steve Hoffmans forum, but people (at least one person 3 people ) want to hear your speakers. From this thread (post #192). I can pass on a message if you like.

Thanks so much. As you see fit. I really ought to contact Mr. Hoffman, as we are acquainted owing to his use, back in the day, of Meadowlarks for his work.

Now that we're more-or-less caught up from the onslaught that began with the pandemic, I'll pay more attention to the marketing side of things, maybe show 'em off.

Any guy who's serious about an audition would want to contact me, and I'll see what can be done.

Very pretty rig above, no? Thanks!

 

[Pat McGinty]

It's been a while, taking a break and spending a bunch of time on a needed website redo. Loaded it up with pretty birdie pics, mostly complements of my brother. Broke the Tech section into five subsections for clarity, stripped down the prose. And a preview of the - now playing in the lab - tour de force, Merlin.

Screenshots, first in a browser, then in the dandy Xara development app.

Pay a visit. On the Contacts page, at bottom, the birdies go on and on.

 

[Pat McGinty]

All right, enough desk work, finally time to make some sawdust. Merlin LF cabs. Thinking: black leather clad / black laq bass systems, with Santos Rosewood mains.

 

[CarmelChet]

Pat,
That would look awesome! Can’t wait to see pics.

 

[thin_ice]

It's been a while, taking a break and spending a bunch of time on a needed website redo.

Meadowlark Audio Homepage

Is your stereo ready for High Definition Audio? Celebrating thirty years

www.meadowlarksings.com

"Dear Music Lover:

In life there are not things more important than love and beauty.

For the love of music, and with 30 years of building speakers behind us, today we work at the edge of what is possible. No modest, decent performing things here; just intentionally outrageous, explosively high performance custom builds.

Maybe you’ve owned numerous stereos that, though nice enough, never really nailed it. Maybe you’ve never had sufficient power/bandwidth to rock as hard as you’d like. Maybe you’ve arrived at the point when you’d like to stop fussing with the gear and focus on your music. Maybe you’ve accomplished all that you’ve wanted for your family and for your legacy, but your music life has always taken a back seat.

Maybe it’s time.

"

👍👍

 

[Pat McGinty]

Mundane stuff on the bench today - Merlin proto bits and pieces - barely worth showing off.



We cut the rear cabinet birch ply panels on the CNC router, but they do need their edges mitered. The old spoil-fence method. We went with 0.75" ply to conserve both weight and internal volume, not wanting the thing to be any larger. Knowing that the system operates below 70Hz, the panels just need to not activate below that freq. so a simple build problem (credit for concept: Arnie Nudell of Infinity). We'll tie opposing panels together carefully well.



Here's something you can't get away with on an ordinary table saw: placing the work on the "wrong" side of the crosscut fence. Dangerous and stupid. But the big slider handles this operation with ease. Otherwise this cut would have been a real pita.



And the dressings are standing by. Santos Rosewood and black leather. A tad on the manly sexy side, no?

$$$ though.

 

[Pat McGinty]

Time for tapered chamfers, this time involving two, stacked cabinets. I thought about chickening out by chamfering just the upper cab, but couldn't do it.



With a spacer between the two, pilot holes then screws. Tight. The cramped innards triggered the deployment of the extra-tricky pick-your-angle compact drill/driver.



Again, this never gets old. Hold your breath and go for it. Times four.

 

[Wntrmute2]

It's not just my breath I'd be holding tight!

 

[Pat McGinty]

Check-fit for the amps into the rear panel of Merlin. It's a good idea to check-fit before removing the part from the router, lest we need to adjust.

Maybe these also need to be posted on the "I. Like. Big.... Amps-and-I-cannot-lie." thread? 4x500, 2x250, 1x100W = 2.6KW

 

[Pat McGinty]

Merlin prototype LF section almost ready to be populated, just need a cosmetic going-over. The rectangular housings at front accept the umbilicals from the mains upper and lower cabinets via 8-pole Speakons. They'll be dressed with grommets. The amp panel is set for 4x500, 2x250, 1x100. Twin SB 13.5 inchers.

The leather cheeks are 0.5" thick at the woofer openings, and chamfer slowly to 0.25" rolled edges where they meet gloss HPL.

 

[Kpatch]

Merlin prototype LF section almost ready to be populated, just need a cosmetic going-over. The rectangular housings at front accept the umbilicals from the mains upper and lower cabinets via 8-pole Speakons. They'll be dressed with grommets. The amp panel is set for 4x500, 2x250, 1x100. Twin SB 13.5 inchers.

The leather cheeks are 0.5" thick at the woofer openings, and chamfer slowly to 0.25" rolled edges where they meet gloss HPL.

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I bet those will be handsome. What’s the approximate weight? Over on the Circle Trading Post someone just sold his Von Schweikert VR-8s, pick-up only, at 500 lbs each and I thought ‘Lordy!’.

 

[CarmelChet]

Merlin prototype LF section almost ready to be populated, just need a cosmetic going-over. The rectangular housings at front accept the umbilicals from the mains upper and lower cabinets via 8-pole Speakons. They'll be dressed with grommets. The amp panel is set for 4x500, 2x250, 1x100. Twin SB 13.5 inchers.

The leather cheeks are 0.5" thick at the woofer openings, and chamfer slowly to 0.25" rolled edges where they meet gloss HPL.

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Looking good Pat! That leather and Rosewood will look great together. The next time I venture back East, I’d like to stop by and hear these!

 

[Pat McGinty]

I bet those will be handsome. What’s the approximate weight? Over on the Circle Trading Post someone just sold his Von Schweikert VR-8s, pick-up only, at 500 lbs each and I thought ‘Lordy!’.

I'm guessing they'll net around 150. I took care to make them extra stiff, but not heavy, by structure not mass. The whole system breaks down into three cabinets, intentionally so that each is manageable.

Annie Nudell of Infinity realized that all a LF system's cabinet needs to do is not activate within it's passband. At 20-70Hz that's not a very tall order. In practice, all the devils are in the lower mids. There I keep panel sizes small and stiff and thick and well damped. Heavy, yes, but there's not a lot of it.

Around here, the idea of pushing a 500 lb thing thru production is out of the question.

 

[Pat McGinty]

Looking good Pat! That leather and Rosewood will look great together. The next time I venture back East, I’d like to stop by and hear these!

There will be beer!