DIY Nearfield Monitors

If you don't really want DIY you could check out the new GMA Rio speakers, or the Vandersteen "monitor" speaker (check out the Vandersteen website).

Jax2

Yes, Radian is the one I was trying to remember!

I thought of the idea after seeing a used pair of Galante speakers for sale.

Thank you everyone for other interesting ideas....it seems there is a Wilson style DIY cabinet somewhere on the internet...will try to find and post the link if anyone is interested....

Cwlondon, there is a Wilson type DIY cab out there. I was slobbering over the possibilities of trying it out. Except for the fact that it would take me 2 years..or cost me the same as a Wilson if I had someone else build it. But its an awesome attempt to see.

CW - I had a pair of Rhapsodys for a year or two. I liked them, but felt they lacked extension. Corner placement helped the lows. Mids and imaging was great. He made a larger version, I think called the Buckingham maybe(?). I don't know that the larger driver he used for those was also Radian.

Hello everyone.

As an update to this thread, a variation on the question:

If

1) You removed all components from a speaker and
2) Put them into a DIY cabinet, but one with a shape or finish more to your DIY liking, where
3) The internal volume of the cabinet was roughly the same as the original

Should the speaker sound more or less the same?

(Yes, I know there are differences with structural rigidity, cabinet resonances, materials etc. Perhaps also diffraction effects from the front face of the cabinet and obviously port vs no port.)

But if for example, I love a pair of sealed mini monitors but would prefer a WATT shaped cabinet, do you think I could simply transplant the drivers and crossover into a similarly sized and sealed cabinet and get + / - a similar sound?

Thanks for any ideas, or for any other updates on DIY monitors.