Lets keep this thread uncluttered, A separate Designing your own speaker from scratch discussion thread has been created. I am an advocate of simulation as part of the design process so later posts will feature this, but even if you don't want to simulate hopefully you will still find the thread useful.
#BUILD THE BEST SPEAKER ENCLOSURE DESIGN HOW TO#
The intent of this thread is to give someone a starting point and things to think about rather than a prescription on how to do it. I’m not interested in starting any religious wars on design choices There are many different design philosophies, and it is not my intent to try and cover them all, though where appropriate different directions may be suggested. I’m also happy for this to be more of a live thread with suggestions for corrections or additions to the core posts taken on board and potentially amended. Note that I am not an expert, I am just a guy who has been playing with speakers for the better part of 30 years, I’ve learnt quite a lot just by experimenting, a lot from reading and I’ve probably forgotten at least half of what I at one point knew or understood (or thought I understood!!).Īs I don’t have expertise in all areas (some might claim in any!) I’m thinking that I will put in a number of placeholder posts, with the idea that members with more experience in those areas can write a post and I (or another Moderator) can paste the content into the relevant placeholder post. If you have got this far and are still game then read on
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If you haven’t done any of the above you may want to have a look at Paul Carmody’s excellent FAQ " Proven Designs" first, which covers why you should build a proven design as your first project. You bought books like David Weems' “ Designing Building and testing your own speaker system” and Vance Dickasons " Loudspeaker Design Cookbook" and have decided it is time to design something from scratch.Īlternately you may have followed AllenB’s excellent tutorial " Designing Crossovers Without Measurements" but have decided to take it to the next level and do measurements in which case Joseph D'Appolito's book " Testing Loudspeakers" and his article " Testing Loudspeakers, Which Measurements Matter" will be useful.
#BUILD THE BEST SPEAKER ENCLOSURE DESIGN DRIVERS#
Perhaps you started out like me, cobbling together random drivers with off the shelf or textbook crossovers, but never quite worked out why they didn’t work out as well as you imagined.
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You have been doing this DIY speaker thing for a while, probably built a couple of proven designs from people like Zaph, Troels Gravesen, Paul Carmody or any number of other successful designers.