Eric
How about you posting about something that you have made. I personally have designed and built a pair of cabinets with a dozen drivers in each. My very first speaker building project. Wired and used and actually sounded like I expected them to. Rob has pics of his latest project and written a critic on the sound, how it works for movies and the differences for listening. I missed out on most of the thread on the cables and so really have no idea about what that is about.
The thing is this is a small group of people a few of which have made their own gear. I wish I had a better camera, as I would like to post pics of a couple of tube amps I have built from scratch and which I modified from the original designs.
We really want to encourage DIY or there would not be posts to links on DIYers, tips on modifications, crossover calculators, etc.
I posted earlier about the guy that damaged his home with the power of his bass horn. Well he did and showed the results on the web.
You have no information about yourself on your profile and only posted info on your system very recently, of which it seems the only tweaks are store bought.
You have to admit that designing speakers that have in a pair 8 subwoofers, 16 woofers, 4 midranges and 8 planar tweeters seems a bit excessive.
Did you finish the box calculations, or design the crossover networks? How far did you take the design? Any special bracing for the part that holds 4 12" subwoofers? What kind of materials did you come up with to line the boxes. Sound proofing, sound damping, some of each? Anything special for defeating standing waves, and how many compartments for the 8 woofers in each cabinet? Ported? Size? Line array or some other configuration?
And I am serious. I really want to know. I would never want to build anything like this but I like hearing other guys thoughts on things like this. Evidently since you came up with a figure on the drivers you must have some specific ones in mind.
The dozen drivers in one box speaker that I built used only 4" full range drivers with an 8 ohm impedence and I built by weaving a wiring harness so that the total impedence of the speaker was 8 ohms. One I dismantled and one is put out of the way, but see the thing is someone told me that if I used an equal number of full range, strong on the mids drivers on each side of a tower and wired them out of phase that I could get imaging that was close to stat pannels at a fraction of the cost and could drive them with a fraction of the power.
Guess what. Its true. Now that might sound like messing around with odds and ends for the hell of it to you, but I spent a lot of time, effort and a chunk of change to find out if I could get the imaging at pennies on the dollar for Stats. And at least for me wiring a dozen drivers of 8 ohms each and 6 out of phase from the other 6 and coming out with an 8 ohm load was not easy. That is DIY.
And sincerly Rob is not picking on or at you, he like me wants to know how far did you DIY even if you didn't build it.
Discussion is what it is all about because we are stretched around the world and most can not get to listen to any other members systems.
David....I only know enough to be really dangerous ....Thatcher