Henri wrote:

I've thought about finding a Cona, the worse shape the better. Changing the driver and modifying the bass reflex tube and x-over to match its specs could give it quite a bit more kick and having it sprayed in high-gloss piano black sounds like a plan. A more dramatic "SuperCona", possibly even with an Icepower amp... tempting.

Chances are Beoworld purist fraction lynch mob will be knocking on my door shortly... 😮

Not quite from the purist point of view, but why do you need a Cona for that, if there's pretty much nothing left of it at end of the day?

A good point. The answer is, for nothing more than the casing, I'm in it for the looks. That's what "the worse shape the better" -clause was for, a basket case Cona would do nicely as there's no point in gutting an intact one.

most people buy from Radio Silks Limited in North London

http://www.radiosilks.co.uk/homepage.html

Radio Silks specialize in supplying loudspeaker grille cloth, the material is supplied in a pack containing 1.42 square meters of cloth, enough to cover the grilles of most domestic loudspeakers.

The cloth is specially produced for loudspeakers, it is acoustically transparent and is as currently used by a number of major hi-fi manufacturers. It is perfect for replacing damaged grilles, or if you just want to change the colour to match a new colour scheme.

Henri wrote:

 

Cooldude: thank's for the offer, I'd really appreciate CX-style cloth - white frets are somewhat hard to come by in eBay speakers and ones that are in decent shape fetch premium prices.

 

 

When I recovered some CX100's, I brought a pack of cheap kids white Polo Shirts. It was quite amazing how close it was to the original. They only cost about £3, and I only used one shirt out the pack for all 6 panels. To glue them on, I used a glue gun. These seem to work very well for this job.

Craig🙂

Thanks for the tips, ouverture and Craig. The OEM cloth on C(X):s actually does resemble polo shirt fabric.

Does anyone have experience of choosing the right cloth for RL:s? A speciality shop like Radio Silks probably has a wide selection and not knowing what, exactly, to look for may make the choice difficult.

There was a link somewhere to a website which detailed recovering a pair of Redlines.

Craig🙂

I have some RL60.2 speakers in the bedroom, so I will take one of them to Radio Silks next week and ask them what comes closest to that for you Henri

My solution as Joanns Fabrics (cloth store chain here in the US).I found some fabric that looked very close to what was used on the RL60's. More or less a shear poly blend used for making athletic wear (jersy's). Paid $3 a yard and there was plenty of color selection.

It sounds like Craig and I found the same solution from his description.

In addition to speaker cloth they also had a large selection of heavy duty fabric ribbon in more colors than I can list.

They had some really nice irredescent white fabric I was thinking about recovering a set of my Redlines with along with some black ribbon.

Only just caught up with this thread - but those Pentas in white do look really excellent.  I may just buy another set of Pentas to recover!

It is a pity Radio Silks do not state the width and length as 1.42 sq metres could be a thin long rectangle through to a square (thinks - 1.42 is almost the square root of 2!) 😮

Brian 

Henri!!
I too am late catching this thread.
Your white Pentas are absolutely drop dead gorgeous!!

Andy T.