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UA_Iron
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Definitely getting into this idea. I want to build some monsters. I can design the cabinets easy. The analysis tools for crossover design and speaker selection get a little involved. Anyone have any experience?
mustang_00
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no but i got the idea of making a time machine. i hit my head on the bathroom sink and as i was laying passed out i had a vision... the vision of the flux capacitor.
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UA_Iron
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I thought about a machine to kill God.
chris302001
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lol at storing flux.....
Creepusmaximus
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I built some book shelf speakers that rock. A guy who made 6K-10K a pair speakers wanted to get his name out so he posted up the whole plans for a pair of speakers that would cost around $350 to build. They rock and I'll put them up against $1200a pair B+W's any day. With a good sub they are sweet but they can hit 40hz no problem on their own. I could probably send you the info if your interested.
BTW you can run huge power through these with no problems, cristal clear.
BTW you can run huge power through these with no problems, cristal clear.
chris302001
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I've built a couple sub boxes, but nothing for indoors/home stuff.
Got links?
I messed around with that through most of the 1970s, but kind of hit the limit of what you could do with no measurement gear and no mainframe (in the time before PCs...). Crossover design is, or was, damn difficult, especially if you're trying to compensate for the drivers' pass-band irregularities. Most midrange speakers seemed to have response like a rollercoaster and required more compensation than a simple textbook crossover can do. We ended up just doing iterative testing with a big box full of capacitors and inductors, substituting values until the sound was "close enough".
I'm sure drivers are a lot better now than the KEF and Audax stuff I liked in the '70s. And there are more tools for measurement and design calculation that will run on a PC. But I haven't kept up, I don't know what's out there anymore.
Right before I got burned out and gave it up was when the Dynaudio stuff from Denmark was just hitting the market. Only it was called SEN-Lab then, and if you wrote off for data sheets, the cover letter would be a hand-written note from the CEO of the company.
Then I got a pair of Quad Electrostatics, which made anything I built sound like a cardboard box, so I found other interests.
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UA_Iron
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Yeah, I'd love to see the plans for those bookshelfs creepus.
dabuffguy - you can get woofers and components pretty easy? Thing is I would need all the T/s parameters for the speakers to design around. If they aren't specified then its kind of like a shot in the dark.
I was thinking about something like this:
HTGuide Forum - It's time for a Statement announcing my latest project..
Parts express has a bunch of cool builds:
Parts-Express.com - Project Showcase Index: Browse Through Speaker Building Projects From The Last Four Years
dabuffguy - you can get woofers and components pretty easy? Thing is I would need all the T/s parameters for the speakers to design around. If they aren't specified then its kind of like a shot in the dark.
I was thinking about something like this:
HTGuide Forum - It's time for a Statement announcing my latest project..
Parts express has a bunch of cool builds:
Parts-Express.com - Project Showcase Index: Browse Through Speaker Building Projects From The Last Four Years
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