These are the modern resonant cabinets that I referred to, designed for old german radio speakers (see image below)
They are called Reso's and are designed for Saba speakers, though the designer is working on a baffle to fit other drivers.
I'm hardly able to comment on not stripping out old gear, given my mono buildout; but I'm not comfortable with the wholesale gutting of antiques for eBay profits. That is what Saba speakers are.
Thats where the WildBurro speakers come into play for me, as well as the Fostex speakers.
The guy that is building these cabinet kits is redesigning the face panel baffle to variable dimensions for alternate sourced speakers like the WBA stuff. So I'm watching in anticipation.
The OP of the thread is a gent named David Wong. I met David here in SoCal, in his travels, but he lives in Hong Kong. Hes a civil engn'r with tons of massive bridge design work. He now runs a medical instrument manufacturing biz in HK. Hes deeply involved with audio fanatics from around the world, amazing audio travels, always listening to, and posting about amazing systems - and having a really impressive system of his own building, including some beautiful horns, and a really slick system for improving on Denon DL103 stereo cartridges (long story of removing the plastic housing and replacing it with one of his custom aluminum bodies).
David bought a Reso kit and speakers and has been raving about it. There are a bunch of other people raving about the design, and sound.
So, I'm listening, watching, reading, learning. I'm leaning more towards an open baffle, for ease of building, but will likely complicate it by using stone or unobtanium,.... But this kits is said to be quite a nice project for a speaker build.
This is a two driver version. There is a one driver version, I think? People also use these in vintage design cabinets like some from Western Electric.
personally, I'd like to see something different for legs, but not sure of what. The speaker is open on the bottom, utilizing the floor reflection as part of the design theory. So it needs to stay open. The legs also lean the cabinet back, exposing the open cavity outward toward the listener.
The designer monitors and participates extensively in the thread, and does a far better job of explaining it than i ever could.
thread begin:
http://www.lencoheaven.net/forum/index.php?topic=1738.0assembly of kit "tutorial":
http://www.lencoheaven.net/forum/index.php?topic=1738.msg23386#msg23386