Rolling your own


How hard is it to build your own speakers and have them sound great. I dont want to make to simple the fact of building expensive speakers but It looks like some off the shelf drivers and crossovers and go to, is it Poland? to have a few hundred cabinets built and finished to your specs.

What about copying current hi end speaker designs, and the drivers, and the way their cabinets are built. Some of the best playing guitars I have ever played were custom built.
Can you study this craft then do it your self or can you make a 15k mistake? What do you do if you want to sell them.

Really peaking my interest currently is maybe a copy of the legacy focus with some atc drivers? With a copy of the dunlavy tower woofers, or my ultimate, a copy of the German Physiks Gaudi with 4 ddd bending wave drivers, six mid metal driver speakers and 4 super sub woofers? The parts not including cabinets (if you didnt buy the gp subs) about 15k do you need special crossovers for the ddd's I burnt mine up but the new crossover is suppose to take care of that. Could you use pro audio crossovers that are active and adjustable?

The only home built speakers I heard are usually horns which are ok but not what I want.

The type of music I listen to mostly modern alternative,classic rock, Ill keep my electrostats for the old smokey jazz thing. But some times I want a concert in the hole ( the room is undergrond) so i want the db inthe 110-120 range.

My room is 20 x 25 and have different ss amps and 4 big 250w tube monoblocks. I live in the middle of no where and no one else around the area has this vice.

Thanks

Kelton
kelton
Clueless,

I have all the stuff (drivers, crossovers, stuffing, spikes, wires and posts.) I'm just waiting on the delivery of the cabinets and x/o boxes from Lee Taylor and Co. The crossovers for the Rhythm Sig. look incredible. I'm excited to actually hear them. Then I'll have lots more opinions to post.

To bide my time I am buying music! Love the Brian Eno "Another Green World" disk and the new Jim O'Rourke "Insignificance" is really interesting.

-Karl
Fellow audiogonners your search is over! Go to ZALYTRON.com There you will find all worlds best drivers. Better yet you can get the kits. I mean i've searched and i found it. I'm requesting something special. Don't know if they can do it. I want the SEASW17EX woofers + the RAVEN 2. Keep in touch Paul
I have built many speakers from Zalytron. Aria 7 TLR towers and Aria 7 monitors are still in my collection. Very nice indeed!

I also have built a couple from ACI. Their DIY site can now be found at www.subwoofers.com. I recently built their Titan II sub. All the reviews are not wrong!

If you have time and the equipment to work with you can turn out speakers for a fraction of the cost. The results are stunning. Enjoy!!!
Hey Lance welcome to Audiogon I know zero as to electronics. So hope the "kits" are not mind-blowers. Take a look at the THORS and tell me what you think. As well tell me your opinion of the ODINEX. I see the ARIA6 has the RAVEN1 + FOCAL 6W4254 and the ARIA5 has as well the famous RAVEN1 + which woofers? (FOCAL 5K4211-?) Have you heard the R2 or the famous R3($$)?
i am waiting on cabinets right now. i bought all the woodworking tools and started on the project. what a disaster. i built some firewood. it is fun though.