Show us your DIY speaker projects!
- Thread starter Dan ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
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Thanks for the compliments guys. That LaScala style two way was actually built to be a center channel between two K-horn style clones I built for a friend of mine shown in these pics. The bass bins were built from 72 Klipsch factory plans modified with 1'' sides like the new LaScala IIs to improve bass performance. The woofers are K-33 replacements sold by B&K Sound. The cornerhorns use the same woofers, mid range drivers and horns only in a three way system with a Beyma CP-25 tweeter. I started building these because although I've always loved the Klipschorn sound I thought the mid range horn and tweeter could be improved upon. I pretty happy with how these turned out both lookswise and sound quality.
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Although Jim is going the extra mile and putting grill cloth on his. I just used the cooling racks to keep things like tricycles and ball bats from smooshing my tweeters.
Ray
19 Months in the making, here are my DIY Speakers
This is my first attempt at building speakers. I used a plan that was available on the internet and modified it to suit my room and needs. I revised the cabinets to use rabbeted joints and beefed up the walls to 1 1/2 Inch MDF. The crossover is a series crossover. (my brother in law is and electrical engineer he did the final design). The woofer / midrange are vifa, the tweeters are scan speaks. I drive this with my B&K AVR307. It is capable of letting me use these in two channel, two channel with sub and several other combinations up to the 7.1 for home theater use. These started out as the EROS MKII, but became somewhat altered in the final process. I did not use the radius cuts on the cabinet, and we altered the crossover and the cabinets. It was a great starting point. I could not have even attempted it without his original plans to begin with.
The speakers sound fantastic. Every type of music I have tried just sounds excellent. The insides have two inch black hole foam in the open area. The tweeter is in a sealed chamber filled with acoustic poly. Every seam is sealed the back was made with a removeable door to access the crossover if we need to change it or tweek the port length. These replace a set of Mirage speakers that I was totally satisfied with. There is no choice which is better, these just sound amazing. I have been surfing this site and others for years to try to get info and am grateful for all the knowledge gained. If it were not for sites like this I would never have gotten the urge to do this.
The only drawback to these is the extreme weight, not so easy to move around at my age (56).
This is my first attempt at building speakers. I used a plan that was available on the internet and modified it to suit my room and needs. I revised the cabinets to use rabbeted joints and beefed up the walls to 1 1/2 Inch MDF. The crossover is a series crossover. (my brother in law is and electrical engineer he did the final design). The woofer / midrange are vifa, the tweeters are scan speaks. I drive this with my B&K AVR307. It is capable of letting me use these in two channel, two channel with sub and several other combinations up to the 7.1 for home theater use. These started out as the EROS MKII, but became somewhat altered in the final process. I did not use the radius cuts on the cabinet, and we altered the crossover and the cabinets. It was a great starting point. I could not have even attempted it without his original plans to begin with.
The speakers sound fantastic. Every type of music I have tried just sounds excellent. The insides have two inch black hole foam in the open area. The tweeter is in a sealed chamber filled with acoustic poly. Every seam is sealed the back was made with a removeable door to access the crossover if we need to change it or tweek the port length. These replace a set of Mirage speakers that I was totally satisfied with. There is no choice which is better, these just sound amazing. I have been surfing this site and others for years to try to get info and am grateful for all the knowledge gained. If it were not for sites like this I would never have gotten the urge to do this.
The only drawback to these is the extreme weight, not so easy to move around at my age (56).
Cost to build
These cost me about $1250.00 to build. That includes several tools and sheets of MDF that were of course never used but much needed. I got all the parts from Parts Express , except the tweeters which came from madisound.
I could not build these for profit, they took me 19 months of free time as it is. I don't have much, but now I can relax and listen to these, again they are incredible!! Thanks for the nice comments.
These cost me about $1250.00 to build. That includes several tools and sheets of MDF that were of course never used but much needed. I got all the parts from Parts Express , except the tweeters which came from madisound.
I could not build these for profit, they took me 19 months of free time as it is. I don't have much, but now I can relax and listen to these, again they are incredible!! Thanks for the nice comments.
Elfasto
Super Member
Yeah, that's about how long it took me to get mine to the current state (3 kids kinda take up one's life).
Still gotta finish the grilles.......
MrGee
Stereotomus Lobotomus
Ray, those speakers are stunning! They look like you could put ProAc badges on them and no one would know...
Amazing detail and a really finished quality look!
I bet with that kind of weight and thickness, they are very acoustically "dead" and a rap on the cabinet would only hurt ones knuckle, not give that hollow echo sound many speakers make.
VERY impressive!
:thmbsp:
Amazing detail and a really finished quality look!
I bet with that kind of weight and thickness, they are very acoustically "dead" and a rap on the cabinet would only hurt ones knuckle, not give that hollow echo sound many speakers make.
VERY impressive!
:thmbsp:
Hi all,
I build my speakers about 15 years ago and I actually just sold them.
This were the Visaton VIB Extra II:
About 110cm high and weight about 25 kg a piece. I have enjoyed them very much, although the were a bit pushy, I mean very much on the foreground.
Besides that, they really need space.
I have an old, mostly wooden house now and they just don't fit anymore (and my wife also thinks in terms of size they don't fit).
I build my speakers about 15 years ago and I actually just sold them.
This were the Visaton VIB Extra II:
About 110cm high and weight about 25 kg a piece. I have enjoyed them very much, although the were a bit pushy, I mean very much on the foreground.
Besides that, they really need space.
I have an old, mostly wooden house now and they just don't fit anymore (and my wife also thinks in terms of size they don't fit).
Badwater
New Member
The following are links to some speakers that I have built over the past four or five years:
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/117028024nJFzcZ
Fostex FX200 with FT17H supertweeter, MLTL. The design was done using Martin Kings MathCAD worksheets. The spearkers are now relegated to mains in the HT system.
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/563207595uOJfXq
Fostex FE166ES-R in Fostex factory recommended backloaded horn with Fostex T90A supertweeter. In the background is a DIY subwoofer using a 10" Seas L26 in a ported cabinet. This is the same driver that Terry Cain used in his Bailey sub.
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/562755820iCRMRC
Open baffles using a Eminence Alpha 15A on the bottom with Electrovoice SP12B and T35 tweeter on top (third picture). The pictures show the progression of the design. The design is based upon the work of Martin King and used his worksheets. No sub is needed with these. The base is plenty low and incredibly clean.
I now need to build some nice baffles as they are definite keepers. :thmbsp:
All three systems are very good, but the OB's are my favorite. There is just something special about OBs that is hard to describe.
Bill
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/117028024nJFzcZ
Fostex FX200 with FT17H supertweeter, MLTL. The design was done using Martin Kings MathCAD worksheets. The spearkers are now relegated to mains in the HT system.
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/563207595uOJfXq
Fostex FE166ES-R in Fostex factory recommended backloaded horn with Fostex T90A supertweeter. In the background is a DIY subwoofer using a 10" Seas L26 in a ported cabinet. This is the same driver that Terry Cain used in his Bailey sub.
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/562755820iCRMRC
Open baffles using a Eminence Alpha 15A on the bottom with Electrovoice SP12B and T35 tweeter on top (third picture). The pictures show the progression of the design. The design is based upon the work of Martin King and used his worksheets. No sub is needed with these. The base is plenty low and incredibly clean.
I now need to build some nice baffles as they are definite keepers. :thmbsp:
All three systems are very good, but the OB's are my favorite. There is just something special about OBs that is hard to describe.
Bill
markus
Master Procrastinator
here's my latest . .
IKEA Expedit 'Bookshelf Baffles'
currently loaded with vintage Motorola (Jensen-made) 8 inchers. treated the cones with 4 or 5 coats of Damaar varnish, running them off a MAgnavox PP 6V6 amp.
when first fired up, they seemed to be lacking in the highs a bit - I trhink the Damaar treatment has broken in as now they sound really nice in the highs . . . :scratch2:
I have three more sheets of the IKEA Birch veneered MDF, so I plan to make a few other 'slide-in' speaker baffles so I can 'roll' different speakers in there . . . I do have stacks of vintage 4's, 5's, 6.5's, 8's, 10's, and 12's
version two I think will employ a Aperiodic membrane on the back side of the cube which I think'll improve bass extention . . .
http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=162063&highlight=motorola
IKEA Expedit 'Bookshelf Baffles'
currently loaded with vintage Motorola (Jensen-made) 8 inchers. treated the cones with 4 or 5 coats of Damaar varnish, running them off a MAgnavox PP 6V6 amp.
when first fired up, they seemed to be lacking in the highs a bit - I trhink the Damaar treatment has broken in as now they sound really nice in the highs . . . :scratch2:
I have three more sheets of the IKEA Birch veneered MDF, so I plan to make a few other 'slide-in' speaker baffles so I can 'roll' different speakers in there . . . I do have stacks of vintage 4's, 5's, 6.5's, 8's, 10's, and 12's
version two I think will employ a Aperiodic membrane on the back side of the cube which I think'll improve bass extention . . .
http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=162063&highlight=motorola
Masonic Man
New Member
Dynaudio Twynn
Greetings:
Does anyone have a cabinet plan/layout for the Dynaudio Twynn? I have the drivers and crossover schematic's but need the cabinet plans.
Thanks,
Todd
Greetings:
Does anyone have a cabinet plan/layout for the Dynaudio Twynn? I have the drivers and crossover schematic's but need the cabinet plans.
Thanks,
Todd
VERY impressive!