Well, with your size room, I would suggest no smaller than a 12” woofer. Often you can buy a completed unit for the same as the sum of the parts. Then you balance your requirements for the rest. For example if you like the high end consider a 4-5” FR. If you don’t need it as much, or if you want the add tweeters at a later date, consider 5-8“ FR. The satellite boxes you will want to build yourself as this might not be something readily available on the market.
The idea is to only do what you have to, to achieve what you want. KISS. No need to involve elements that turn into a complete headache when you get in too deep.
The idea is to only do what you have to, to achieve what you want. KISS. No need to involve elements that turn into a complete headache when you get in too deep.
Okay, it looks like I am steering you in a direction you’re not looking to go.
Good luck with it.
Good luck with it.
I suspect you'd appreciate a speaker with a wide frontage. Something with a low baffle step. Maybe an econowave style speaker.
Budget is around $800. I can build the enclosure for pretty cheap at work. I will just source wood where I can from scraps.
No mids in that build? What is the frequency response of a system like that? With only the woofer and the tweeter.
The compression tweeter works well even below 1kHz so there's no gap. Response is what you make it, do you use an equaliser?
Rather than such complexity, try this design. IMHO the best speaker i have owned. Used with my Pass design FET amp for a while, before my hearing declined
http://www.frugal-phile.com/boxlib/pensils/Pensil10p-plan-140613.pdf
http://www.frugal-phile.com/boxlib/pensils/Pensil10p-plan-140613.pdf
I do not use an equalizer.
Would a tweeter like this be a better match? This fall off around 500 hz and I'm finding large, 12-15", drivers that fall off around nearly the same point. Might not even need a crossover as they are pretty well matched
Would a tweeter like this be a better match? This fall off around 500 hz and I'm finding large, 12-15", drivers that fall off around nearly the same point. Might not even need a crossover as they are pretty well matched
The situation may call for a modular construction. Build the D'Appolito front firing arrangement first. Then build the bass section. Stack the two. Arrange it so you can "stack" a separate rear firing module and top firing module (if you still want them).
Unsure why this isnt done more often. One would think a box "with the best sounding midrange" and other with "the best sounding tweeter" - etc - along of course with other boxes that have "other" midrange and tweeter units would be popular among DIY.
All designed to a decently engineered stackable form factor, where the sections of reproduction of the classic Woof-mid-tweet or Help-FR spectrum bands could be exchanged in a few minutes.
Like a ship of theseus speaker.
Unsure why this isnt done more often. One would think a box "with the best sounding midrange" and other with "the best sounding tweeter" - etc - along of course with other boxes that have "other" midrange and tweeter units would be popular among DIY.
All designed to a decently engineered stackable form factor, where the sections of reproduction of the classic Woof-mid-tweet or Help-FR spectrum bands could be exchanged in a few minutes.
Like a ship of theseus speaker.
+1 to @AllenB's suggestions. Look at Pi Speakers kits. For the money, you could get a seven Pi corner speaker and a 3 pi subwoofer and have money left over. Alternatively you could combine the 3-pi sub and 3 pi into a single loudspeaker or forego the sub and use a pair of 3-pi, etc. Response curves are on the small graph icons on the specs and prices page.
I also wondered why this isn't done more often. I feel like it could all be in the same tower with them just seperated by some pieces of MDF. If resonance with the connected boxes is an issue then could also sandwich acoustic board between the boxes in the tower between the two pieces of MDF
In your shoes I 'd go to diysoundgroup page to look for what suit my budget. Good Q/P.
The rightmost column of the entries in the table here. Understand that you would have to supply your own cabinets from the plans made available by the designer.