To Buy or to DIY, here is my question

chorus,

Not to get off subject, but if you’re going to have your tools out anyway, a simpler DIY project with much higher return on investment vs. store bought is building your own acoustic panels since the room dimensions and how it’s acoustically treated will have the biggest influence on how your speakers end up sounding.

GIK Acoustics carries Knauf’s ECOSE material, much better to work with than fiberglass, and some Guilford of Maine acoustic fabric gives you top quality components.  For frames, use premium pine one-by (3/4” actual thickness) trim the appropriate width and assembled with glue and pocket screws.  Get fancy and add some gussets in the corners to help position and hold the material and you’re good to go for absorption treatment.

lemonhaze,

Very impressive cabinet build - no plain wooden boxes there!  Enjoy your Tannoy project.

@tomic601 

That construction sounds neat and super complicated. But why would I ever need to build it like that? Because someone else did? Some people will have a tough time building a speaker...I'm not one of those. Nice try kid.

My future speaker build

cut 6  holes in Tennessee Cedar, 2 FR + 3 to 4 tweeters

Screw drivers in,. waaaa laaaa done. 

Open Baffel is the only way to design FR. Boxes trash the sound of a   FR. 

8  months will upload pics

@sandthemall Thank you for the compliment, nobody has called me “ kid “ lately, brings back memories custom building crossovers with a FFT running on a Comadore PET in 1982… ah to be young again….

wishing you the best in music

Jim

@tomic601,

Thanks for getting the joke. I knew well that you might actually be more knowledgeable than me when I wrote that...lol.