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Hello All.

It appears speaker prices have gotten crazy!! The Goldwood GW-4028/S 4" Woofer Shielded the plans call for are now $21.49 EACH?!?!

I'm hoping this closeout speaker will work at $5.80 but I'm concerned with the cone to cone measurement for the array: https://www.parts-express.com/4-Treated ... hm-299-320

The plans are showing center to center at 4 3/8 but from what I gather; the closest possible with these drivers will be 4 3/4. Would this be an issue?

Thanks!!!

This driver has been recently discussed. viewtopic.php?f=5&t=26146

Great, thanks for pointing that out!! As for the mounting; just getting them close is good enough or should I make any adjustments for the TLAH?

Thanks again; I'm always shocked at the responsiveness of this forum!

I got a heap of those drivers. I wanna say they actually measure in at 4 5/8" OD. (Or maybe it was 4 11/16.)... In any case, it was a tick or two less than 4 ¾".

I took a brief look at the TLAH Sketchup a couple weeks ago for the same reason and from what I recall, I think the TLAH wouldn't need any panel dimension modifications. But, obviously, the driver cutout spacing would have to be adjusted slightly. IIRC, at 4¾" OD, 8 drivers fit fine vertically. It's the horizontal clearance that may have them slightly encroach into tweeter territory. And that could certainly depend on the tweeter selection and whether they're rear mounted or not.

I'll double check both accounts in the next few days and post absolute dimensions of the driver as well as double check fitment in the Sketchup again and get back to you.

That would be amazing Seth! I ordered a boat load of these as well (64) to do all 7 speakers the same around the theater and have some extra.

I went with the recommend Goldwood GT-302/S 1/2" Mylar Dome Tweeter Shielded. One option may be to rear mount the drivers if the tweeters are fount mount I guess. Not sure if that throws anything else off though.

Thanks again for checking this out!!

Well, some of the speakers came in and the packaging is horrible so 6 are clearly damaged. I'll run tests on the others to make sure they still function as expected

They do measure 4 11/16 though; I plan on making a template baffle with MDF to see how it will all work. Also, I called about getting Baltic Birch; that price has also gone CRAZY. Last year it was about $50/sheet - now it's $134/sheet!!!!!!

Partsexpress has been dropping the ball on the packaging. Can’t say I blame them it gets expensive but when the part is damaged in shipping that is no good either. Darn, that sucks

At least support is good; they just asked for pics and are sending more... hopefully packaged better.

Now I have to create ANOTHER RMA because the next batch made it today... there were 7 speakers just thrown in a box; all are damaged.




So I have little faith in the replacements making it any better.

I'd better take a closer look at the bunch I have. The two or three I looked at were fine. But...

I got part of my order yesterday, two items I did not order were in the box. Not mad but it is bad business.