My Phantom voyage

[ragwo]

Huge changes are coming to the den. Two out of three Phantom I 108 dB are sold, the last one is for sale. The reason why; they're almost never used. Maybe every other week at tops. That's a ridiculous amount of wattage and money just sitting there. Three RME ADI-2 AD/DAs and two Onkyo PR-SC5507 preamplifiers are going out the door as well.

I listen to music in the living room and the chief and commander thinks the surround hack is to bothersome to use, so she uses the TV speakers. I'll keep the Phantom Silvers for TV sound and music. After the speakers where Roon RAAT certified, convolution is a splendid way to taylor the sound as I want it when I listen to music in the den, maybe once a month.

That's the good/bad news, over to the fun part. I still have the guts of the Frankenphantom and a donor Silver chassis laying around. Inspired by my spring clean I decided to finish it up and keep it as ragwo's portable(ish) party pack/neighbourhood terrorist.

Getting ready for gluing the dust cap. Still a bit of old glue to remove. 
   

One side done, one left. 
     
I didn't make any big effort to remove the dents in the dust caps, as I will keep the speaker, and the resell value is next to nothing as it isn't upgradable to DOS2. As long as they were air tight it was all right.

Of course, I made an half ported vintage Silver, as usual. The quick fix was a bit of Tec7 around the edges of the dust cap. First masking. 
   

Ready to dry for a day or two. 
   

So, did the quick and dirty Tec7 trick work? 
   

Fortunately it did. A 20 hz sine tone and Billie Eilish ridiculously loud confirmed that it's air tight. I even managed to dig out an old moisturizer jar from the attic. Good times!