ouverture wrote:

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

That would be absolutely fantastic. If you really would do that, I'd appreciate it very much - I used to take my old RL60:s with me to my summer cottage a couple of times a year so I have some first-hand experience that they're not the easiest speakers to haul around.

I just checked the RL35:s, drivers are fine (not prone to foam rot in the first place?), the white edges of the housing are slightly scratched so I'll probably mask & respray them and frets look even worse from the inside than they do on the outside. I've also sketched up prototypes of RL35 wall mounts, I'll have to weld together a prototype to see how it'll work; I really can't figure out why the most obvious candidate for wall mounting, ie. the smallest speaker of RL series, isn't wall-mountable by default.

Let's sum up this speaker cloth issue so far:

Penta: Generic, 100den+ matt satin Lycra

C/CX: Shear poly blend, Jersey / Polo shirt fabric

Redline: TBA...

P30/45/50: ???

3000/4500/5000 panels: Find a wino, mug him, get the well-worn gray shirt...

As a sidenote, replacement bands for RL-series are still a problem. Heavy duty packing band that was mentioned in another thread might work, the width on RL35/1000 is 5mm, the same as narrow "standard" metric band. I'd suppose the band on RL45/60/140 is close to other standard widths too. Finding a source that will supply anything less than a full 1000m roll of it can be difficult, though.

the width of the roll is  142cm  wide,  so they send you in the post a 1 metre cut from this roll,  so  142 x 100 =  1.42  sq metres

the pricing on the website includes VAT and postage and packing.

my Beovox Redline 60.2  measure about 55cm high x 45cm wide  - so I can easily cover 2 speakers with a 1 metre cut.

however, the bigger RL140's may need a few centimetres more, and if someone could get back to me the exact measurements of the RL140's, then I will speak to Frank at Radio Silks and see if he can do a special for owners of RL140's

As an aside, the fabric industry sells cloth mainly in 142cm and 183cm widths, and more increasingly fabrics sourced from Europe are coming in 100cm, 150cm and 200cm widths

the gunmetal grey that B&O use for the RL speakers is not an exact match that Radio Silks can offer, they have about four different greys, but if you email me your address Henri, I will send you in the post a sample of each colour, and you can see which one you like the most !

ouverture wrote:

the gunmetal grey that B&O use for the RL speakers is not an exact match that Radio Silks can offer, they have about four different greys, but if you email me your address Henri, I will send you in the post a sample of each colour, and you can see which one you like the most !

Thanks!

On the other hand, in the case of these RL35:s, I'm rather leaning towards white - again. This means that all I really need is to know the type / model # of cloth that's closest to Redline original frets, besides the colour. 😕

The wall mounts seem to work and they're pretty simple to make. A steel plate with three 6mm holes, corresponding to the holes in the back of the 35, so that they grip the inside edges of the housing. I'll probably weld two of the screws in place and use the third to tighten the mount in place. A regular M8 thread nut can be welded on the other side of the steel plate so it'll attach easily to the majority of camera mounts, swiveled wall mounts etc.

Henri wrote:

The wall mounts seem to work and they're pretty simple to make. A steel plate with three 6mm holes, corresponding to the holes in the back of the 35, so that they grip the inside edges of the housing. I'll probably weld two of the screws in place and use the third to tighten the mount in place. A regular M8 thread nut can be welded on the other side of the steel plate so it'll attach easily to the majority of camera mounts, swiveled wall mounts etc.

See here for wall mounted RL35's

Hmm? Are those original wall mounts? I didn't know they even existed.

In my application, I need to mount them at an angle (both vertical and horizontal) relative to the wall(s), so mounts like that are pretty much out of the question, but if they're really OEM, they're an interesing bit of trivia nonetheless. I just wonder how they're attached, as there are no screws on the backside of the speakers - with the exception of plastic "screws" to tighten the straps/bands, of course.