Over the past three months I have been working on three speaker projects.
First, to get back into the hobby I built a huge set of open baffle line array speakers which expanded into a three way system with a tweeter array and stereo subwoofer towers. Since everything was intended to see how much performance I could get form the cheapest parts, nothing in the rig is high end or fancy:
I had no real intention to keep them, but they grew on me and are now proudly on display in my front living room which serves little practical purpose other than offering a place to do yoga and it is connected to my dining room area.
Then, partially out of necessity I used some old parts from a failed JBL speaker set to build a new 2.1 system for my master bathroom. Using a pair of nice and modestly priced 3" full-range speakers from Tang Bang and then used a very decent 10" subwoofer driver from Dayton Audio to make a nice sealed subwoofer. Since they were for a bathroom, I painted them bright, happy, fun colors:
I am really loving these when I am showering, brushing my teeth, getting dressed, taking a bath, or whatever one might do in a master bath.
One of the main driving factors for getting back into the hobby was to build a new set of main speakers for my primary critical listening rig. This was necessary since my old "perfect" speakers had failed due to a materials choice I made when building them. They were ruined and I needed something new. So, after much research and the excitement of a new technology coming from Denmark's Scan-Speak, I spent nearly a year designing and now building my next state of the art speakers:
I have not completely finished the project, these are just the speakers stacked as they will be in my listening room (which I will no longer call a HT since I am doing away with surround sound). I still need to get my external crossover, move everything up to the listening room, hook it all up, and tune it out. But, you can see the general design.
They are stacks of driver "modules" where each driver is in its own self-contained unit consisting of a stackable baffle and if necessary a cabinet. Since the tweeter needs no cabinet, it is open in the rear other than the rear protruding brace necessary for stable stacking. The midrange units have a small sealed enclosure, tuned for the ideal performance from the 7" midrange drivers (should get solid output to as low as 150Hz, but I plan on a 250Hz crossover point). The 10" woofers are very large enclosures to accommodate the best possible performance from them. I am excited to get these installed and tuned up.
All of this makes me very happy. I may want to make a habit of building speakers as a regular hobby. Who wants a custom set of speakers designed just for them?
First, to get back into the hobby I built a huge set of open baffle line array speakers which expanded into a three way system with a tweeter array and stereo subwoofer towers. Since everything was intended to see how much performance I could get form the cheapest parts, nothing in the rig is high end or fancy:
I had no real intention to keep them, but they grew on me and are now proudly on display in my front living room which serves little practical purpose other than offering a place to do yoga and it is connected to my dining room area.
Then, partially out of necessity I used some old parts from a failed JBL speaker set to build a new 2.1 system for my master bathroom. Using a pair of nice and modestly priced 3" full-range speakers from Tang Bang and then used a very decent 10" subwoofer driver from Dayton Audio to make a nice sealed subwoofer. Since they were for a bathroom, I painted them bright, happy, fun colors:
I am really loving these when I am showering, brushing my teeth, getting dressed, taking a bath, or whatever one might do in a master bath.
One of the main driving factors for getting back into the hobby was to build a new set of main speakers for my primary critical listening rig. This was necessary since my old "perfect" speakers had failed due to a materials choice I made when building them. They were ruined and I needed something new. So, after much research and the excitement of a new technology coming from Denmark's Scan-Speak, I spent nearly a year designing and now building my next state of the art speakers:
I have not completely finished the project, these are just the speakers stacked as they will be in my listening room (which I will no longer call a HT since I am doing away with surround sound). I still need to get my external crossover, move everything up to the listening room, hook it all up, and tune it out. But, you can see the general design.
They are stacks of driver "modules" where each driver is in its own self-contained unit consisting of a stackable baffle and if necessary a cabinet. Since the tweeter needs no cabinet, it is open in the rear other than the rear protruding brace necessary for stable stacking. The midrange units have a small sealed enclosure, tuned for the ideal performance from the 7" midrange drivers (should get solid output to as low as 150Hz, but I plan on a 250Hz crossover point). The 10" woofers are very large enclosures to accommodate the best possible performance from them. I am excited to get these installed and tuned up.
All of this makes me very happy. I may want to make a habit of building speakers as a regular hobby. Who wants a custom set of speakers designed just for them?
