DIY is the way to go if you want the most for your money. There are a huge number of excellent drivers out there. I would do a 2 way open baffle (plate) speaker and cross to a sub woofer at 125 hz. Use a 6" mid range woofer and a dome tweeter. Cross at 12 db/oct with 6db down point at around 2500 Hz you can find schematics for cross overs on line or design it yourself. The equations are simple. The trick is finding drivers that will cover those ranges with about the same sensitivity. You will pobably have to pad one of the drivers a little. I would use a potentiometer. adjust it till the response is flat, check the resistance and replace it with a high quality resistor.
I made such a system for a friend of mine who has muscular dystrophy. He is a music teacher and almost totally paralyzed. He has a van he drives with joy sticks!
I used Corian and MDF for the plates and Focal drivers. They do not sell individual drivers any more. The subs were 12" Dayton Titanic 3's in Corian enclosures. We used a TACT preamp and amp for the plates and a QSC amp on the sub woofers. The Tact provided the cross over. The plates hang from the ceiling with the subs below. I still get compliments on that system. The goal was to give him the best possible system for as little as possible and we beat the $8000 limit.
I made such a system for a friend of mine who has muscular dystrophy. He is a music teacher and almost totally paralyzed. He has a van he drives with joy sticks!
I used Corian and MDF for the plates and Focal drivers. They do not sell individual drivers any more. The subs were 12" Dayton Titanic 3's in Corian enclosures. We used a TACT preamp and amp for the plates and a QSC amp on the sub woofers. The Tact provided the cross over. The plates hang from the ceiling with the subs below. I still get compliments on that system. The goal was to give him the best possible system for as little as possible and we beat the $8000 limit.