Is it time in your hobby to build a speaker kit?


Not to save money, but to learn what you are talking about. Get your hands dirty. Touch all the parts. Can you screw? Can you solder? Want to experience something most of your audiophile friends never will?


Try out these sites:
www.madisound.com
https://meniscusaudio.com/
www.solen.ca

http://www.taylorspeakers.com/

https://greatplainsaudio.com/

Do this to have fun. Do this to roll your own crossover out of exotic Teflon and copper foil.

Best,

Erik
erik_squires

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Good choice @N80! The stand mounted version, or the floor stander? Both are made with the same parts, just a different enclosure (plans for both monitor and transmission-line enclosures are provided with the kit). Great Neo 3 pdr tweeter, Danny Richie-designed and custom-made woofer/midrange driver, and audiophile quality x/o parts (caps, resistors, etc).

Danny is well known in the loudspeaker industry, doing x/o consulting work for other companies. He also offers mods for mass-market speakers built to a price point (and therefore compromised), such as the Elac's. His mods "correct" some engineering choices with which he disagrees.

@n80, GR Research sounds perfect for you. Danny Richie supplies the drivers, x/o parts, enclosure damping material, connectors, hardware, etc. He leaves the enclosure to the customer, providing he or she (yeah sure ;-) the internal cu.ft. volume required for the speaker design you order.

As you are content with your speakers (for now ;-), take a look at his subwoofer designs. He developed them in partnership with Brian Ding of Rythmik Audio, and they are something special. Sealed and OB/Dipole, both with Rythmik’s Servo-Feedback circuitry, and Danny’s paper-cone version of the Rythmik 12" aluminum cone-woofer. He provides the plans for his 2 cu.ft. enclosure design for the woofer, both a normal sealed version, and one with double walls, the space between them intended to be filled with sand, for damping of the enclosure walls. Advanced subwoofers designed not for home-theater use, but for music.

Another good source is GR Research. Sealed, ported, open baffle, OB/Dipole sub, great designs.