Speaker design sounds easy, but is very, very complicated. If you read some of the better, more complete books on speaker design, it will leave your head spinning. What I am saying is look into thoroughly tested designs, and do not try to second guess the designers and substitute any parts!! unless they are accepted as ok by the designer! Building a speaker can be very rewarding, if you do your homework. Homework being: check out the designs, see what folks who built them have to say, how long has the company making the speaker kit been in business, do you have the skills needed to finish them. (Some cabinets are from scratch, some precut, some just need finishing) |
This site in general is good for theory and background and if you go to the index then to section 16 they have a lot of recommended kits. http://ldsg.snippets.org/index.php3 There are quite a few very good diy kits out there but there are a lot more that are not so good. I can recommend Northcreek kits based on experience. it has been a few years but they are very good http://www.northcreekmusic.com Also a nice two way from Ellis audio that I haev heard and is very good http://www.ellisaudio.com/ A fairly new TL design from Madisound that I have not heard but has had lots of good stuff said about it: http://www.madisound.com/thor.html some basic diy info: http://www.loudspeakers101.com/Sound.htm |
