DIY Nearfield Monitors

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.

Depending on design... if
Driver spacing and any driver staggering
Or mounting type, I.e. flush mount
Etc, the answer would be yes...
If not, you could hear some differences
In time alignment or cabinet
Diffraction

Also, you would need to make sure
That if the wooferis ported you
Would need to alter the porting
For the current box

If you change the driver's placement on the baffle(distance from each other AND edges), you are changing the sound.

IMO, pick up a pair of KEF Q100's and put the drivers in a new enclosure to your liking. There is no accounting for baffle diffraction in the crossover. Although the frequency response may change, due to the waveguide loaded tweeter and it's crossover design, it may not be as significant as other designs.