DIY Audio – Speaker Building, Crossover Design & Home Audio Projects
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You may wonder what tools are needed to get started building your own custom loudspeakers. The list is surprisingly small if a person is simply trying to build a basic box with bracing. What tools do you need? A plunge router with bits, a circle jig, and clamps. Is that really it? Yes, surprisingly. But…
Why use a shelf filter? While designing a speaker using a full range driver, I ran into a common problem: the sensitivity shifts upward at a specific point making the higher frequencies output more decibels than lower frequencies. This problem is not unique to these drivers, though. Baffle step is another instance where this can…
Tools for Speaker Builders As with starting any new hobby, a person gets excited. They want to throw themselves into it whole-heartedly. And just like a new relationship, a person just throws themselves into it, especially in the honeymoon period. Now, if you are like me, you already were interested in some area related to…
There are a lot of subwoofers out there, but is there a best subwoofer? Best subwoofer for home theater? best subwoofer for sound quality? Depending on what you are trying to accomplish there definitely can be a best a subwoofer. Here, I’ll take a look at some different subwoofers I have used and what I…
The new Max-X MX15-22 subwoofer is a high excursion beast. Subwoofer box design can be tricky. C an we design a subwoofer box that has deep bass?
Recently Sound Advice had a boombox competition. The goal was to take a premade boombox kit from Parts Express and transform it aesthetically to just wow people. I ended up with the MK boom, an inexpensive $130 kit. It was small, so I had to get creative.
DIY Speaker Design Process While at MWAF, Kirby and I got to really meet each other and decided that we wanted to collaborate on a DIY Speaker project. Inspired by Kerry Armes beautiful design and ScottK from PE simple crossover, I decided to get to work on this. I wanted to keep this diy speaker…
This DIY $100 Subwoofer will SHAKE your House Overview There’s always been a lot of really good subwoofers. But most are really expensive. I wanted to make the best home theater subwoofer under for $100. Now when I say under $100, that is for the subwoofers themselves, not the entire build. But even finding a…
I;ve had my hands on a few 2.1 boards in the past. They seem to always come up short. Not this one! With DSP, DAC, fiber optic in and whole house audio…this offers everything I have been looking for in a 2.1 amplifier.
Let’s be honest with Audio there is typically a certain amount of WAF (wife acceptance factor) that needs to be considered. And typically subwoofers are the least accepted component of a home theater or stereo. They are just ugly boxes that sit in the corner and make loud booms aka bass. But what if we could take that same subwoofer and make it not only a central part of your home theater, but also a central part of your home décor? That is exactly, what I choose to do.