I designed and made my first set of loud speakers 23 years ago. They were vast ugly items that sounded, well, like nothing else I'd ever heard. But not great. I'd taken a few of the principles I'd read about in books on speaker design, and tried to apply them. Retrospectively, I should have stuck to a tried and tested design rather than think of something new.
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| Big, ugly, and loud. Home made speakers. |
My second set of speakers where much much better, but still had problems. I remember I purchased the high frequency drivers, I said to the guy in the shop "Don't I need to use a
cross over with these?", and he replied "Naa, don't worry about that, just solder in this capacitor." No wonder those boxes had such an interesting mid-range 'presence'.
Fast forward to today, I've heard and used a great many different types of loud speaker. And the time may have come to build another set... after all, there are now a myriad of websites and
forums dedicated to loud speaker design and construction.
Of course, cheap loud speaker are much better than they used to be, and you can probably buy a pair for less than the materials required to make one. So I must think carefully!
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| The MkII speaker was a huge improvement! |
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