I've managed to infect my better half with manflu, so now she has the flu. Really strange how the disease changes name and severity when she gets it. For the occasion I've made her a sign.
I believe she'll appreciate it.
Update.
While I'm lying on the couch in the garage trying to sleep, I'll pass some time continuing the Phantom Slayer Business.
After the egg split open and revealed its guts, the dissection continued. It involved removing a good handful of non magnetic screws soaked in high quality red French locktite. Thankfully the quality of the screws was downright awful in one of the speakers, and rounded screw heads did emerge more often than I liked. Seems like Devialet had spotted the problem and procured screws of a stronger metal alloy in later production. That, or they skipped the high quality French locktite and used some maple syrup instead. I didn't have any problems with the newest speaker.
Before me rounding torx screws size a bit too small.
Devialet has been clever enough to use same sized screws all over the place, so the only thing I had to manage was not to lose any, which I didn't. Thankfully the lost ones were found after a bit of crawling around on the floor swearing.
Here's the heat shield removed.
When the screws were removed and the PCB still seemed to be welded in place, I turned the egg around and kept on losing screws. Before the dissection I hadn't found any instructions on the interweb about disassembling the inner parts of the Phantom, so I didn't know if there was any screw going the whole way through to the other side of the speaker.
After removing the heat shield.
After removing all the screws both PCBs still felt like welded to the chassis. What to do?
I believe she'll appreciate it.
Update.
While I'm lying on the couch in the garage trying to sleep, I'll pass some time continuing the Phantom Slayer Business.
After the egg split open and revealed its guts, the dissection continued. It involved removing a good handful of non magnetic screws soaked in high quality red French locktite. Thankfully the quality of the screws was downright awful in one of the speakers, and rounded screw heads did emerge more often than I liked. Seems like Devialet had spotted the problem and procured screws of a stronger metal alloy in later production. That, or they skipped the high quality French locktite and used some maple syrup instead. I didn't have any problems with the newest speaker.
Before me rounding torx screws size a bit too small.
Devialet has been clever enough to use same sized screws all over the place, so the only thing I had to manage was not to lose any, which I didn't. Thankfully the lost ones were found after a bit of crawling around on the floor swearing.
Here's the heat shield removed.
When the screws were removed and the PCB still seemed to be welded in place, I turned the egg around and kept on losing screws. Before the dissection I hadn't found any instructions on the interweb about disassembling the inner parts of the Phantom, so I didn't know if there was any screw going the whole way through to the other side of the speaker.
After removing the heat shield.
After removing all the screws both PCBs still felt like welded to the chassis. What to do?
Living room: Kii Three/BXT with Control.
Den: Tannoy Precision 8 iDP with TS112 iDP subwoofer.
In the cupboard, waiting for a sibling: 1st gen. Phantom Silver running DOS1
My Phantom Voyage
Den: Tannoy Precision 8 iDP with TS112 iDP subwoofer.
In the cupboard, waiting for a sibling: 1st gen. Phantom Silver running DOS1
My Phantom Voyage
