Wonderful speakers, the top covers are not too difficult to make, the challenge is to find the aluminum profile, I would try with a 3 Mm. black plexi (perspex) route to fit the alu profile, glue front to top angle, glue fabric and attach aluminum profile.

BTW where do you buy the surrounds ?

I bought my surrounds for my other Beovox speakers off from Good HiFi.  So far their surrounds have worked good for me.

sonavor wrote:

I bought my surrounds for my other Beovox speakers off from Good HiFi.  So far their surrounds have worked good for me.

I tried with Good HiFi for 6.5" to RL 140, but he offered me totally wrong dimensions, lately I was mailing with

Nice find! Can't believe they use the same Phase links as are on my S-120's - they look tiny on these! Never heard a pair, but the wife would not allow them anywhere near the house due to size alone!

BTW have you got the stands?

Hi Soren is it not the other way round? I am sure Goodhifi is the better supplier - I got my RL140 surrounds off them including dustcaps and while I have not yet fitted they seem absolutely fine when offered up!

I have returned a couple of (quite different !) MS150 surrounds sold as a guaranteed fit to Good-Hifi as can be
read somewhere in the archives.
A third pair came in with a pair of speakers for repairs and being more than 1cm too big inner diameter (and still
guaranteed to fit!) they were thrown out.
Only use Good-Hifi  if you have better luck than I.

Martin

I am surprised tbh. I am sure my s120 foams came from them, which were a good fit, and like said I have RL140 and forgot to mention penta foams that I have yet to do, but checked all carefully and they look pretty faithful to the originals!

The one thing that puts me off audiofriends is the lack of on line shop where you can see that they have a specific foam for a specific driver, not too keen on sending them dimensions and not knowing exactly what I am going to get back! Also they don't appear to sell dustcaps which obviously given some drivers is essential!

I must check out the archived forums and see what other peoples experiences are over the long term!

Step1 wrote:

Hi Soren is it not the other way round? I am sure Goodhifi is the better supplier - I got my RL140 surrounds off them including dustcaps and while I have not yet fitted they seem absolutely fine when offered up!

I have only had mailing contact with Good HiFi, I asked for 6.5" for 140s, he gave me an offer for a surround type about 15 Mm smaller OD than the original, I responded to him that they would be too small and never heard from him again, with Fred from AF I've had long discussions about speaker repair and constructions, Fred knows what he is doing, and wont sell you anything before he has the exact dimensions from you.

Step1 wrote:

The one thing that puts me off audiofriends is the lack of on line shop where you can see that they have a specific foam for a specific driver

AFs webshop is a mess, but if you go by dimensions you will find it there, Fred is aware of this and working on it. Just mail him speaker type, which driver, ID, OD and cone D, he will then find the right one.