I hate to tell you, but the crossovers you have will likely sound terrible, and the drivers will likely not integrate well unless your tweeters have an extremely low resonant frequency, or your woofer can play much higher than most 8's. I have been building speakers for several years now, if you want something that sounds better than your JM Labs, you will need to either buy expensive software and measurment devices and design crossovers, or use a design someone else has perfected. Check out murphyblaster.com, there are some great sounding speakers there. I built the MBOW 3 way and it compares well with $2500 commercial speakers. Also check out the Madisound discussion board and Speakerbuilder.net for more tutorial. Unfortunately it is not as easy as slapping some drivers in a box, people think speakers are overpriced, but the design phase is very time consuming and difficult. Hope this helps.
Building my own
Alright I have decided that im going to build my own speakers. I was org going to buy a center ch speaker but when I got one and had it set up I decided that I liked my two ch set up but the place would not give me my money back so I had to do store credit and I bought two JM Lab 8in W cones and two Toxid 5 tweeters and two KRK crossovers that have been modified but I cant remember how.
So I think Im going to use these new speakers as a set of mains in my living room and move my current JM Lab 906 speakers to my bed room and pull them out as surround sound speakers when watching movies in the living room. So my question is would these speakers sound alright working togeather? I know the cross over is different and I know that Im going to build a cabnet that is alot different than the one the 906 have.
Also tell me what you think of my idea I want to do a transmission line speaker is this a good idea or should I make bookshelf speakers out of them? When I had a friend create a design for a transmission line speaker for me he said that the responce would be 90db and have a responce ragne from 38-23k.
And since I am a noob at speaker building what do I need to be carefull about? What are some hints of the trade? Im planing to use 3/4in MDF for the materal is this a good choice? Also when I finish the speakers should I go with venneers to finish it or paint it or do what? I want to keep this project as cheap as i can the budget is 350 so after buying the drivers i have 100 bucks left to play with.
So I think Im going to use these new speakers as a set of mains in my living room and move my current JM Lab 906 speakers to my bed room and pull them out as surround sound speakers when watching movies in the living room. So my question is would these speakers sound alright working togeather? I know the cross over is different and I know that Im going to build a cabnet that is alot different than the one the 906 have.
Also tell me what you think of my idea I want to do a transmission line speaker is this a good idea or should I make bookshelf speakers out of them? When I had a friend create a design for a transmission line speaker for me he said that the responce would be 90db and have a responce ragne from 38-23k.
And since I am a noob at speaker building what do I need to be carefull about? What are some hints of the trade? Im planing to use 3/4in MDF for the materal is this a good choice? Also when I finish the speakers should I go with venneers to finish it or paint it or do what? I want to keep this project as cheap as i can the budget is 350 so after buying the drivers i have 100 bucks left to play with.
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