I'm a hobbyists woodworker and audiophile. I have built several pairs of speakers and turntables. I'm so happy to have found this channel!! Well shot video, your designs are great and you are very entertaining! Keep it going please!
I built a few speakers too, with FR drivers. Please try this, for the EXPERIENCE: With lots of Blue Tack or plasticine, mount an open 5" FR driver on top of a speaker box with a woofer in the box. And slope the open FR back a bit, to how you like it. All you need other than that, is an inductor on the woofer. But you can make a filer for the open FR driver if you like. I did it with 100 mf cap to take the strain out of the open FR driver but it seemed to work well without it (remarkedly). 😅 How it sounds: When a FR driver is open (out of the box) you get more treble output and also more extended highs! Med range (above 300 hz) sounds like a ribbon med range speaker, it's so clean! And the lower med in the woofer fills in the voice sound, so it's not lean in the voice sound. It sounds like an open 9" tall by 3" wide aluminium ribbon driver on a boxed woofer (yet it's all paper cone). Doesn't sound like a cone and it's dipole and point source. Sounds seem to come from nowhere, and if there is any REVERB in a recording you are going to hear it! So good that it's sometime really difficult to know if some sounds are outside or from the speakers. I have fairly often mistaken a voice in the speakers for a real voice in the room (and jump out of my skin) and even mistaken a jet sound in the speakers for a low flying jet over our house! And I looked out the window for a few seconds. 😅 Once, my friend tried to stop his phone from beeping (for a few seconds) and then realised that it was from my speaker's. So when I listen to a good live recording, all my memories of watching bands, flood into my imagination and I'm "right there" again, with the band, at the venue (rather than the band in my room). At another level! Great for string quartet and all the best FR suited recordings and great for house music too (cos of the woofer). Brass sounds, sound metallic, and so realistic! My bought B&W 706 speaker's sound "foofy" after hearing my made speakers (especially on brass).Unlike normal speakers, my made speakers have nearly as much highs from the back of the speakers, as from the front. 😅 Truely an experience I never had before in my hifi life and the experience makes me glad that I'm alive. 😅 Makes me want to live for ever! 🎉 TRICK! Use a stationary phase plug driver for best treble (no enclosed dust cap cavities that cause that "sippy" sound). 😅 Or if you don't use phase p.ug drivers, get rid of any whizzer cone (they are a second sound source and out of time alignment) and get rid of the dust cap dome, with the enclosed cavity (if you use those type drivers). And (regardless of what type FR driver) slit the cone of the FR driver with a hobby blade (about 5mm out from the center edge). Make cuts right through the cone, making sure the edges DON'T TOUCH by manipulating the blade so the cut is as wide as this font. 😅 Make the cuts 1 cm long and with 5mm gaps (that are not cut) right around. This makes the best treble I ever heard! Even better than tweeters, It extends the highs so well that it doesn't sound like a FR driver anymore. Sounds like they are really expensive speakers, sweetest treble in the world! 😅 I took my speakers to the local hifi shop and they went crazy over them and a visiting high end rep also was impressed. 🎉
I love your channel. I need to read up on that software. That’s pretty cool. I grew up in the 80s and yeah, we had Loud cars we always bought a cross overboard
I just discovered you and subscribed immediately you make it look so easy I cannot wait to make $100 speakers - just have to save to buy $10,000 worth of carpentry equipment!
Amazing paint job! Thanks for all your effort and enthusiasm. Lovely, tidy workshop by the way. Just prdered a pair of these drivers. Considering a voigt pipe type design. The BIB version is interesting too.
@@sonnoradesign Good man! I will let you know. I'm more of a wood butcher than a cabinet maker like yourself. There are some mad angles to work out on my design. Are there any Cad tools that you use to help with this stuff?
Try mounting an open 5" FR driver on top of a speaker box with a woofer in the box and an iductor on the woofer. Use a lot of Blue Tack or Plasticine, for quick experimental mounting of the open FR driver on top of the box (and slope the driver back, to your liking). If there is any reverb in a recording, you are going to hear it! Sounds come from nowhere! 😅
Dude I love your channel. Nice workshop and wood skills. Nice design aesthetic with the white and breadboard top. Yeah maybe a baffle step correction could boost bass even further. Love to see the Freq chart. I am looking at getting a mike too soon to create my own charts and learn more about electronics. Keep up the good work.
Hey Peter. Thanks man. I’m glad you are enjoying it. Those are playing even better after breaking In. I’ll post the filters and curve soon. I’d encourage you to get it. Sounds really nice.
Nice build. Sound without low end... I'm never seen full range without some kind of compensation, baffle step and notch filter. Maybe in some obscure horn constructions. Looking forward for next video. Subscribed, because it's LOOKING GOOD.
Great video..like to see the development of your ideas.. particularly when things don't turn out as well as expected and you have to modify in some way. As in your port characteristics... Problem solving and workings out on show is what I personally would like to see... Thanks
such a nice project and outcome! BUT STILL i think backbassports have a very limited effect of amping that bass accurate in a fullrange setup in 3way 4 way they are more effective in my opinion but as the curve displayed its more like a flat response which is not bad at all did u check the airvelocity on the ports below 14-18m/s also i would always brace and flange the port aswell mby i missed that part. i like that design and top&bottom maple finish tho🙏🏼 especially the legs! finally some more storing space😂 (storing chairs is the worst) keep on sanding and sending! wish u only the best from austria
Superb looking boss. You have talent. Would love to see more videos on subwoofers and class looking soundbars and amplifier chassis for Hypex modules with miniDSP
Great video. I also would like to see and do a small speaker cabinet design for the SB Acoustics SB20FRPC30-8 8" Paper Full Range, I have seen very good reviews about this speaker and it would be an interesting project to do. 🙂
Really interesting and FUN to watch your vids! Thanks for the guidance. I just ordered my MarkAudio CHR-90s....YIKES, it'll be my first speaker build but really appreciating the education you so aptly give during the projects.
I would to see build by you on 8″ SB20FRPC30 superb SB acoustic FR driver and maybe an Eminence Lab12 sub in one great looking design for a superb 20-20K fullrange speaker for large room
Friend I would be keen to see a video on a nice 8” or 10” DVC subwoofer that is connected and use with stereo speakers instead of a plate amp and seperste amp So the stereo amp should drive this left right spesker and the dvc subwoofer
Maybe build a box with a concave front baffle for a future build. The entire front baffle would be a giant wave guide.in theory it would have an incredible sensitivity if used with the right driver. I plan on doing this myself in the future.
Actually now we're planning a speaker project with my brother and a carpenter friend. My choice is MA full range driver as well :) I would have few questions to you ;)
Where is the analysis of the design based on which you decided to make this box? where are the response, phase, impedance, delay, offset curves and generally all their reasoning and design work? i'm sick of seeing carpenters copy random boxes and call them speakers... you tried to copy the design that came with the speaker which is at least wrong, not to say false... the correct design for this particular speaker , it is 40lit total volume, with a 72mm diameter tuning tube and a total length of 165mm without flared ends, and F3 frequency from 41hz to 46hz depending on the damping material, and the size of the room...
I'm a hobbyists woodworker and audiophile. I have built several pairs of speakers and turntables. I'm so happy to have found this channel!! Well shot video, your designs are great and you are very entertaining! Keep it going please!
Thanks Jay!! I will keep it going for sure. Wanna see your speakers sometime.
I built a few speakers too, with FR drivers. Please try this, for the EXPERIENCE:
With lots of Blue Tack or plasticine, mount an open 5" FR driver on top of a speaker box with a woofer in the box. And slope the open FR back a bit, to how you like it. All you need other than that, is an inductor on the woofer. But you can make a filer for the open FR driver if you like. I did it with 100 mf cap to take the strain out of the open FR driver but it seemed to work well without it (remarkedly). 😅
How it sounds:
When a FR driver is open (out of the box) you get more treble output and also more extended highs! Med range (above 300 hz) sounds like a ribbon med range speaker, it's so clean! And the lower med in the woofer fills in the voice sound, so it's not lean in the voice sound. It sounds like an open 9" tall by 3" wide aluminium ribbon driver on a boxed woofer (yet it's all paper cone). Doesn't sound like a cone and it's dipole and point source. Sounds seem to come from nowhere, and if there is any REVERB in a recording you are going to hear it! So good that it's sometime really difficult to know if some sounds are outside or from the speakers. I have fairly often mistaken a voice in the speakers for a real voice in the room (and jump out of my skin) and even mistaken a jet sound in the speakers for a low flying jet over our house! And I looked out the window for a few seconds. 😅 Once, my friend tried to stop his phone from beeping (for a few seconds) and then realised that it was from my speaker's. So when I listen to a good live recording, all my memories of watching bands, flood into my imagination and I'm "right there" again, with the band, at the venue (rather than the band in my room). At another level! Great for string quartet and all the best FR suited recordings and great for house music too (cos of the woofer). Brass sounds, sound metallic, and so realistic! My bought B&W 706 speaker's sound "foofy" after hearing my made speakers (especially on brass).Unlike normal speakers, my made speakers have nearly as much highs from the back of the speakers, as from the front. 😅 Truely an experience I never had before in my hifi life and the experience makes me glad that I'm alive. 😅 Makes me want to live for ever! 🎉
TRICK!
Use a stationary phase plug driver for best treble (no enclosed dust cap cavities that cause that "sippy" sound). 😅 Or if you don't use phase p.ug drivers, get rid of any whizzer cone (they are a second sound source and out of time alignment) and get rid of the dust cap dome, with the enclosed cavity (if you use those type drivers). And (regardless of what type FR driver) slit the cone of the FR driver with a hobby blade (about 5mm out from the center edge). Make cuts right through the cone, making sure the edges DON'T TOUCH by manipulating the blade so the cut is as wide as this font. 😅 Make the cuts 1 cm long and with 5mm gaps (that are not cut) right around. This makes the best treble I ever heard! Even better than tweeters, It extends the highs so well that it doesn't sound like a FR driver anymore. Sounds like they are really expensive speakers, sweetest treble in the world! 😅 I took my speakers to the local hifi shop and they went crazy over them and a visiting high end rep also was impressed. 🎉
I love the history in those chair legs, perfect for a speaker!
Thanks Capra!! I loved it too.
Absolutely love the retro book design of those speakers.
Thanks my friend!! I wanted to make those it’s been a while.
Way to be faithful to some classic design and bringing your flavor and fun to the project! Can’t wait for video #2.
Thanks again Cody!! Let’s keep them coming.
Love the design and the soundtrack. You make it seens easy. Congrats.
Woohoo!
Your videos are so well produced and I appreciate how well you document the whole design process. Looking forward to seeing what you create next!
Hey thanks!!! I’m glad you liked it man. I’ll keep posting for sure!!!
Welp. You got a new sub. Thank God there is a new speaker builder around. The current crop have gotten stale.
Thanks Luke! Hope you keep enjoying it. Let me know if I get stale please!
You put a smile on my face sir. Love your personality. I want to build my first set soon.
That’s great to hear!! Hope you do it soon. It’s a lot of fun!
Sharp design, looking good .
Thanks for watching!
Brilliant you made very good speakers boxes and now the time is listen sound quality. I m from Pakistan Karachi
Cheers Mohammad! Thanks for watching!
My pleasure sir
A great follow-up project would be a subwoofer in the same style to complement the speakers. Great video btw!
That’s right! I’ve been thinking about it. Great input!
I love your channel. I need to read up on that software. That’s pretty cool. I grew up in the 80s and yeah, we had Loud cars we always bought a cross overboard
Hahah. Right!!! Too many subwoofers! Never enough
It's great to see your design process 👌
Thanks fot watching Jay!
You guys are the best lay them down 😮
Woohoo! Thanks my friend!
Look forward to that, you produce fine work and I love the production.
Thanks for watching!
You are a great guy.... Thank you for this video.....
Thank you for watching!!
I just discovered you and subscribed immediately you make it look so easy I cannot wait to make $100 speakers - just have to save to buy $10,000 worth of carpentry equipment!
Right!! Comes with time. I’ll post basic tools to start soon.
I think I will attempt to make something like that next week. I have not a used a router since high school shop class, but we'll see how it goes.
Haha! Go for it!! It’s a lot of fun!
I've looked at many designs and DIY kits but nothing inspires me like your designs.
Thanks Glen. Appreciate it. Let’s do it.
Amazing paint job! Thanks for all your effort and enthusiasm.
Lovely, tidy workshop by the way.
Just prdered a pair of these drivers.
Considering a voigt pipe type design.
The BIB version is interesting too.
You should try! There are a lot of designs for the mark audios, let me know how it works!!
@@sonnoradesign Good man!
I will let you know.
I'm more of a wood butcher than a cabinet maker like yourself.
There are some mad angles to work out on my design. Are there any Cad tools that you use to help with this stuff?
Wow sounds good for the size of this driver
Now we can see a sub to match with these nice speakers. 👍
Congratulagions.
Thanks man! I’m glad you liked it. I’d love to make a sub for those. Maybe soon!!!
Beautiful stuff as always. Keep the videos coming.
Thanks Mark.I’ll keep them coming!!
Very clear sounds like some Harmon Karden or Polk audio
Thanks Robert!!!
Great video - I was going to suggest a baffle step network to help with the low end response but you are on it!
Yup. It helps! But the speakers are sounding even better now.
Try mounting an open 5" FR driver on top of a speaker box with a woofer in the box and an iductor on the woofer. Use a lot of Blue Tack or Plasticine, for quick experimental mounting of the open FR driver on top of the box (and slope the driver back, to your liking). If there is any reverb in a recording, you are going to hear it! Sounds come from nowhere! 😅
Sounds good my friend!!!
Dude I love your channel. Nice workshop and wood skills. Nice design aesthetic with the white and breadboard top. Yeah maybe a baffle step correction could boost bass even further. Love to see the Freq chart. I am looking at getting a mike too soon to create my own charts and learn more about electronics. Keep up the good work.
Hey Peter. Thanks man. I’m glad you are enjoying it. Those are playing even better after breaking In. I’ll post the filters and curve soon. I’d encourage you to get it. Sounds really nice.
Nice build. Sound without low end... I'm never seen full range without some kind of compensation, baffle step and notch filter. Maybe in some obscure horn constructions. Looking forward for next video. Subscribed, because it's LOOKING GOOD.
That’s right! I ended up with a baffle step compensator and notches. But the drivers got so much better after breaking in… I’ll post the graphs soon
Great video..like to see the development of your ideas.. particularly when things don't turn out as well as expected and you have to modify in some way. As in your port characteristics... Problem solving and workings out on show is what I personally would like to see... Thanks
Thanks a lot. I’d keep it real. Cause you are right, it not always runs that well! Haha. Cheers
such a nice project and outcome!
BUT STILL i think backbassports have a very limited effect of amping that bass accurate in a fullrange setup
in 3way 4 way they are more effective in my opinion
but as the curve displayed its more like a flat response which is not bad at all
did u check the airvelocity on the ports below 14-18m/s
also i would always brace and flange the port aswell mby i missed that part.
i like that design and top&bottom maple finish tho🙏🏼 especially the legs! finally some more storing space😂 (storing chairs is the worst)
keep on sanding and sending!
wish u only the best from austria
Hey Stefan! Thanks man! I did check the air velocity, don’t remember now but it sounds good.
Очень стильные и красивые колонки получились.
Молодец!
Однозначно +
Thanks My friend!! I appreciate it!! 😎
Superb looking boss. You have talent.
Would love to see more videos on subwoofers and class looking soundbars and amplifier chassis for Hypex modules with miniDSP
Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll keep it in mind. I have some ICE power boards here and I want to make something… let’s see.
Great video. I also would like to see and do a small speaker cabinet design for the SB Acoustics SB20FRPC30-8 8" Paper Full Range, I have seen very good reviews about this speaker and it would be an interesting project to do. 🙂
It looks really good and a good “bang for the buck”. I just think that the cabinet for a vented would be big. Which is ok. Thanks for the suggestion!
Have you ever seen the molded plywood speaker cabinets Charles Eames designed for Stephens speakers?
I’ve seen them now! Wow! Good stuff. Loved it. Thanks Joe.
Good job. Thanks for your help!💪
Really interesting and FUN to watch your vids! Thanks for the guidance. I just ordered my MarkAudio CHR-90s....YIKES, it'll be my first speaker build but really appreciating the education you so aptly give during the projects.
Thanks Aaron. Those drivers sound really good. You gonna love it. Thanks for watching!
Sand It... Sand It....
Lovely...
Right!!! Hehe
I used to work in a cabinet shop. Being the new guy my name was "Mr. Sandsomemore." Somehow the name stuck with me despite other guys being hired.
Haha! That’s right! I feel it.
Hello...Sonnora,..new friend ,.nice video👍👍
Thanks a lot!! Cheers
well done mate.....!!! kind regards from germany
Thanks Erwin! Not sure where you are but I love berlin! Cheers
Hey bro have you ever used RIT dye it will change the color and keep grain like a guitar
Nope never. Getta try that.
Looks nice!
Thanks again! Frequency response coming soon…
I would to see build by you on 8″ SB20FRPC30 superb SB acoustic FR driver and maybe an Eminence Lab12 sub in one great looking design for a superb 20-20K fullrange speaker for large room
That is an interesting idea! 20 to 20000 is ideal. I’ll try something similar with what I have here. Thanks my friend!
Friend I would be keen to see a video on a nice 8” or 10” DVC subwoofer that is connected and use with stereo speakers instead of a plate amp and seperste amp
So the stereo amp should drive this left right spesker and the dvc subwoofer
Thanks for the input Anand.
Very nice you're the man
Thanks Nilton!
at 26:23 are those Pioneer SA series amp and preamp?
Thats right! I love those! Bough a few back in the day. Sa7500, Sa8500 and Sa8800
@@sonnoradesign I had the sa8800...one of the best I have ever had
Boa, Be! Acabei de descobrir esse seu canal! 💣💣💣💣
Boa Pop!! Vamos com tudo!!!
👏👏love these
Thanks!!!
I like this video💗
Thanks Mario!
@@sonnoradesign I am happy to follow your videos.
Quite a “gritty” performance
Thanks!! More to come.
Maybe build a box with a concave front baffle for a future build. The entire front baffle would be a giant wave guide.in theory it would have an incredible sensitivity if used with the right driver. I plan on doing this myself in the future.
Hey Mike. Thanks for the input man! Let me know how it goes! That’s interesting.
Caramba very good
Ai ai ai!!
FEASTREX have some FR drivers that cost 70 grand a pair! 😅
Let me check that!!! Love those FR
Great video but Music is too loud
Thanks for the input!
I'm still waiting a demo.
That’s right. Those are really cool speakers. I was listening again the other day.
👍👍
nicht schlecht ,machmal muss man mit einem breitbänder seine ohren durch pusten.
Thats Right!! Cheers!
thumbs up by 15 seconds
Thanks Danny!! Thats cool!
@@sonnoradesign Sanding... lol so true. No shortcuts, no tricks, just sanding
Thumbs up already for the cover pic :) subscribed after 20 seconds ;) cool design!
@@MrJakigabi thanks Gábor!! Glad you liked it!
Actually now we're planning a speaker project with my brother and a carpenter friend. My choice is MA full range driver as well :) I would have few questions to you ;)
Sandie!!!!
Hahaha! Right
Where is the analysis of the design based on which you decided to make this box? where are the response, phase, impedance, delay, offset curves and generally all their reasoning and design work? i'm sick of seeing carpenters copy random boxes and call them speakers... you tried to copy the design that came with the speaker which is at least wrong, not to say false... the correct design for this particular speaker , it is 40lit total volume, with a 72mm diameter tuning tube and a total length of 165mm without flared ends, and F3 frequency from 41hz to 46hz depending on the damping material, and the size of the room...
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😂😂😂😂 sandpaper
Haha right?!
how a diy is a high end? they are not even at the right elevation... :( just empty buzzwords