Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Speaker Building for All! Build the Best Speakers for Less Money - A Simple Project

I accept been a home amphitheater and music enthusiast for the endure 15 years. In the endure 5 years I accept become complex in apostle architecture and added types of audio accompanying projects. If there is one affair that has appear to abrade me it is the lies and misinformation apropos home audio systems over the endure 2 decades.
My assumption is that companies like Blose accept fabricated so abundant money off of biting barter that they don't ambition us to acquisition out what they accept been up to.
What accept they been up to? Basically slapping some junk-off-the-shelf apparatus together, afraid their name on it, commercial millions of dollars and appearance up these actual shitty articles by the hundreds of percent.
In added words; you get about 1/5th the amount on your dollar and that is on a acceptable day and a annealed sale. Neither of which you are acceptable to acquisition any time soon.
The estimated locations costs on a Blose Home Amphitheater arrangement of about 2000.00 retail is about 250.00 dollars max. I'm getting generous. The apostle drivers acclimated in their speakers are agnate to about a 6 dollar driver. No joke!
Bose makes the drivers so they can say they are account 1,000,000 dollars anniversary if they want. Replacements are about 70.00 to 100.00 anniversary depending on the unit. You can acquisition college superior drivers from online retailers for about 12.00 USD.
Okay abundant Bashing! What's my Point?
If you are accidentally accessible with some basal copse alive accoutrement you can calmly accomplish some actual bargain and abundant aural speakers. Yes, you can analyze them anon to Bose if you wish. Are they better? Alone you can decide, but I've heard both and I accept no agnosticism in my apperception which are better.
Here's what you do:
1. Order some HiVi analysis B3N drivers from an online retailer.
2. Solder some affairs assimilate the disciplinarian terminals.
3. Mount the HiVi B3N drivers in some baby boxes that you fabricated out of MDF or besom ply plywood.
4. Run the affairs to a appropriate home amphitheater receiver.
5. Set the receiver crossover to 150Hz and set your capital speakers to "small". (use with a bargain subwoofer)
6. Now about-face on some music. You can use your PC to accommodate the tunes.
It took me about 4 hours to body these speakers. I could not accept the after-effects and how acceptable they sounded. This is a abundant baby disciplinarian that alone costs about 12 dollars from Locations Express. I initially congenital these little speakers for my wife because she capital a baby arrangement upstairs. They articulate so acceptable we affiliated them to the TV and use them to play movies and music in our active room.
For Home Theater
You will charge to use a subwoofer with these for home amphitheater as they are actual baby and accept bound bass. But even after a sub they complete absolutely acceptable at low aggregate levels.

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