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Title: Do real cabs have round speaker grilles?
Post by: Minwah on November 26, 2003, 02:08:01 pm
I am trying to justify using Happ round speaker grilles for my cab...I wanted to route slots but I think I will mess that up  :-\

I can't actually remember seeing any 'real' cabs with anything other than either small drilled holes or routed slots with the speaker(s) behind...

Anyway, take a look at the pic - do you think these will look any good?
Title: Re:Do real cabs have round speaker grilles?
Post by: SirPeale on November 26, 2003, 02:26:40 pm
They'll look fine.

The reason for the routed holes is it's much more difficult to destroy a speaker when it's behind some wooden slats than it is when it's exposed for the world to see.  Damn vandals.
Title: Re:Do real cabs have round speaker grilles?
Post by: menace on November 26, 2003, 02:31:12 pm
My berzerk cab had a single speaker covered with a grill.  looked pretty good.
Title: Re:Do real cabs have round speaker grilles?
Post by: Minwah on November 26, 2003, 02:38:41 pm
They'll look fine.

The reason for the routed holes is it's much more difficult to destroy a speaker when it's behind some wooden slats than it is when it's exposed for the world to see.  Damn vandals.

I kinda figured that is probably the case...but I am trying to avoid doing things to my cab that wouldn't have been found in a real arcade cab.

Thanks for the replies, I guess menace has given me all that I needed to hear :)
Title: Re:Do real cabs have round speaker grilles?
Post by: GamingGreg on November 26, 2003, 02:39:09 pm
A friend of mine did the same thing with his MAME cabinet and it looks great.  Yours will too.  Mine are behind a metal mesh as that's what the existing cabinet had (it was a cabinet conversion).
Title: Re:Do real cabs have round speaker grilles?
Post by: Santoro on November 26, 2003, 02:47:14 pm
I've got almost the same grilles on my cab, maybe a little bigger. I love the way they look.  

As far as authenticity, they aren't vandal-proof, so I doubt they would be used in a retail environment.

I feel that as long as the controls, cabinet shape, and monitor are close to authentic, the cab will look and feel authentic to a casual observer.  That is what matters to me.

EDIT: Photo at http://ww2.santoro.com:8888/Mame/images/IMG_1392.JPG  The flash makes them seem very obtrusive, in real life, they blend into the black paint and are just noticeable enough.
Title: Re:Do real cabs have round speaker grilles?
Post by: night on November 26, 2003, 10:54:55 pm
mine -> http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=9292

they are flush with the surface, with grill material (was an aiwa shelf stereo) stretched over the front
Title: Re:Do real cabs have round speaker grilles?
Post by: OSCAR on November 26, 2003, 11:30:54 pm
Round grilles were not uncommon.  Some were mounted flush, others were surface mounted. Examples of a plain, surface mounted grilles would be the earlier Stern cabs like Scramble, Super Cobra, Berzerk, Frenzy, etc....

http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/images/F/cFrenzy.jpg
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9447



Here's my original Williams round speaker grille flush with speaker board:

(http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tmp/grille1.jpg)




Car stereo speaker grilles installed on my MAME cabinet (these look a lot like the ones you have pictured):

(http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tmp/grille2.jpg)

Title: Re:Do real cabs have round speaker grilles?
Post by: Cisco Kid on November 27, 2003, 02:14:55 am
Only problem I see ... look how close the grills are to the edges .... what are you going to do for a marquee retainer ... the Happs marquee retainer will interfere with the grills (other than shaving it down to nothing ... or cutting part of the grill circ. into the marquee)???
Title: Re:Do real cabs have round speaker grilles?
Post by: Minwah on November 28, 2003, 08:06:51 am
Thanks for all the replies - very helpful :)

I think part of the reason I was so concerned, is that they are more 'on show' than usual (inc. the cabs pictured).  I have based the cab on the Atari System 1 design - check the pic (kindof explains why it isn't a problem Cisco Kid...)