Hi matador,

thank you very much for sharing.

Regards

Thumbs up, Matador!

Thanks a lot, Matador!

WaaauuuW
Briljant!!!

I'm going to print the clamps (your stl files) and look locally (The Netherlands) for the best wood (matching my wooden herringbone teak floor)

I saw that your wooden lamellas are angular and original BeoLab 18 lamellas are rounded.
Rounded might look a little nicer/more original?

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Hi Tuttivini,

Thank you.

Interesting point you raised, that allow me to add some comments.

I've asked my brother in law (the father of the kid who printed the clamps for me) if he would do the same thing and he smiled at me saying "no". What I understood is "if you have 8000's keep 8000's, don't make them look fakes 18's or even worse, fake B&O".
It made me think. But just the pleasure of trying was enough (and the grills were already made at that time). That said, I can't swear that the fabric covers will never return.

All this to say that I rather the 18's "hommage" over the 18's "copy" or "makeup".
On top of that and more grounded, rounding the lamellas would have been a lot of manual work I'm not sur to be able to do. So I went for another way of doing it:

The ears are half rounded, and the rounding leads to the angular front-end, making all this quite pleasant in real. Enough to me.

Another detail I like every day when looking at them (and I must say, over other commercial alternatives) is that the chrome top cap of the column stick out of the wood top line. I've always thought that the wooden grill on Bl8000's makes them look weird because our eyes are so trained to "wood=ALT", they were always missing something. To the point of thinking to add a falser ALTs with Liliviken caps!
And then, I can see this little chrome ring sticking out the wood and it's enough to me to balance de speaker design.

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Now, more seriously, the important part is the clamps (and even more, the back part of the clamp), as a piece or as an idea.
It's open to anyone to make it better, with thinner lamellas, different angles, better wood or wood work. I did go for cheap, that's why I've advertised a total cost of 50€.

See this as a proof of concept and make it better, I'm sure it can.

Next work: the black 80 denier Woolford fret!

Cheers and thank you all for your comments.

And @matador would it also be possible for you to design (stl files) those clamps for the 6000 series?

I have Beolab 8000 and Beolab 6000 and would be a perfect match.

Examples:

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And make our own accoustic lens on the beolab 8000
(In The Netherlands I found a person who 3d-printed this top cover. Re-using, rewiring, relocating the original 8000 tweeter).
He sprayed the 3d-printed models with chromespray.
Unfortunately he never shared his desing/stl file....

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And make our own accoustic lens on the beolab 8000 (In The Netherlands I found a person who 3d-printed this top cover. Re-using, rewiring, relocating the original 8000 tweeter).

This is typically too much for me, cheesy, the wood grills are too large and I would never ever alter the sonic" design of the speaker more than just playing with the frets. I suspect ALT is a little more than just a plastic shell over a tweeter. I wouldn't do that.

It isn't 'too much' for me. I like the modded acoustic lens look on the 80000's. The Chrome could be a better match with the original 8000 housings, but it looks nice for a modded/diy job... But I totally understand your answer/opinion. I also heard (from the Dutch person who made the above acoustic lens housings) that the sound from the 8000's improved...

I want to try it myself.

Unfortunately I'm not able to design/draw this design myself. I know how to use a 3d printer, I have one. I can draw simple designs, but this acoustic lens is a little difficult for me. I hope to find someone on this forum that wants to share his STL files (they are out there.... Looking at the printed examples in my above photos) Who knows more about the beolab 8000 acoustic lenses?