I love this so much! That's a beautiful design and build, and unique finishing style I don't see very often. Traveling at the moment, but have this video saved to re-watch when I get home to my reference system to properly sample the sound demo!
Außergewöhnlich! Ich wünsche Dir, dass die Lautsprecher so gut klingen, wie sie aussehen. Grüße aus Norddeutschland und ein guten Rutsch ins nächste Jahr!
Good morning 🌅, Nice design, this might help, if you put double sided tape on to a full sheet of sand paper and place it on the surface of the front of the cabinets then the driver housing you rub up and down the cabinets you should have a good fit for the housing to cabinets, Good luck with your project, I have built a very large pair of transmission line cabinets many years ago, just recently had to replace the drivers with SEAS DRIVERS 10” and 1” tweeter, powered by NAD , merry Christmas and happy new year, for 2025 ,
Just wanted to comment, to help you build your channel. Stumbled upon your Channel and watched five videos so far. Your content is excellent! Interesting builds, interesting techniques, AMSR-like mellow and low key combined with great audio and commentary - this must take you a lot of time to edit, thank you! And you are very funny - I really like your comments 😊 Greetings from a fellow Dane 😊
Very nice build! This video will help me with my curved build. A point of improvement is the cylinders that are used for mounting are round and the speakers are mounted in their centers, which will cause equal diffraction from every way, amplifying the diffracted frequency. For this reason, manufacturers use face plates that will allow uneven diffraction. A deep roundover could also help here.
Thanks for the comment. The shape of the speaker itself is drop-shaped which is really good for killing sound waves but if they can't get out of the speaker rings it isn't good. Hope I understood your comment correctly.
@ the drop shaped cabinet helps a lot with the cabinet resonance and standing weaves within the cabinet itself. Diffraction happens on the baffle since there is a lot of vibrations around the speaker driver which will exit the speaker at the edge of the baffle. This unwanted sound is amplified if the distance between the driver center and the edge of the baffle is the same. Meaning drivers mounted on a cylinder suffer the most.
You are a master of more trades than I care to count. What a nice build and it sounds very well too. Only small detail would be a better connecting fitting like GR's linier type and maybe vertical instead of horisontal grain direction would look better.
What an amazing idea to use foldable mdf. Box shape should help with standing waves. I think I'm gonna do the same but with different drivers. The only thing which I would change are those speakers holes. They sticking out to much but I can imagine it's hard task to do it differently.
Interesting build and well executed. I would have added a good radius on the inside of the woofer through hole as the total depth was quite large and would behave like a tube with the edge diffraction of the inner edge. But nicely done !
The speaker rings have a cutout that is approximately 15 mm bigger than the woofer cutout with a chamfer from the cutout.. Looking back I would have made the "tube" shorter - great question, nicely observed!
That specific "piano" finish over wood veneer can take anywhere from 7 to 12 layers of clear coat with sanding in between every few coats to reduce orange peel that could cause optical defects in the thick layer of clear coat. The only thing that I will point out as a point of contention is the use of those terminal posts. They look like there's some steel in there. Ideally you'd want to use copper or brass terminal posts to avoid the high frequency attenuation that steel posts can sometimes exhibit. While I don't generally advocate for omitting a tweeter in favor of a wide-band midrange driver, it can provide a unique sound if you do so and is still quite viable for certain types of music. Just expect for there to be more beaming in the high frequencies with higher volume outputs.
Gorgeous speakers, but i prefer speakers that don't need a subwoofer to dig deeper. I would've probably made a bit bigger speaker in diameter and added a strong 8" sub downfiring with a back port. Each to their own.
Thanks for the comment, the glue is filling out the cutouts. When I knock on the speaker it sounds more dense than normal 19 mm thick mdf, I guess because of the curve.
It was a DIY site that unfortunately closed, but I believe the papers said Humble Homemade HiFi, so he probably designed it. However I can't find it on his site!
I don't know how precise your volume measurement needed to be but the square having the same area is an assumption. If the triangle point was 60 degrees (equalateral triangle) the area would be 280 vs the 297 for the square. I think you have something like an 80/50/50 triangle which should make the difference even greater as the closer to a circle the shape is, the lower the area for a given perimeter (where the lowest possible area is a perfect circle).
Try it with the FR driver ran open on top of the box. Retune the woofer to warm the medrange, and slope the top open FR driver back by about 20 degrees. It will be point source and dipole for the best image you will hear.
Strange video. With so many woodworking and finishing videos on TH-cam, this one shows you doing a clear finish that looks really awful. You haven't sanded sufficiently between coats to flatten before applying the next coat. The result is a wavy-looking mess, as if someone poured syrup all over the speakers. The reflecting light against that clear coat only makes the effect worse. Also, by the way, at 4:40 you mention that you have a CNC -- then why are you cutting all those MDF parts by hand with a trim router and a template?? that's the kind of thing a CNC is perfect for! Really don't understand. Lastly, at 12:30 you tapped threads into the black piece but then immediately proceeded to not use them and instead you just jammed the binding posts through the threaded holes with brute force. Again, it makes no sense!
There is only 2 sec of me sanding you can't see how much I have sanded. If I sand any more it will go through. I say in the video that if you want a real high gloss finish you will have to sand and clear coat it again. I worked with painting cars for 9 years . The whole thing with the scanner and CNC was a joke sorry you did not get it. Lastly there was no threads on the binding posts they are made to be forced in. I just used the drill that I had and yes it is made for making threads. Merry xmas
@mustbuildsomething I would have used a coarser grit sand paper for better adhesion.. but im not an automotive finish guy as you were.. just a lowly finish carpenter 🤣.. at any rate, wonderful video and nice work.. Happy New Year!
ok I missed the joke about the CNC and the scanner. my bad. We can talk about all your years of experience with automative and blah blah etc etc, but the bottom line is: that finish looks like shit, totally amateurish. But since you are someone with all those years of automotive experience, it's even more embarrassing isn't it? if you were less experienced we might understand how your finishing skills and finishing result are so poor, but if you're going to brag about all your experience, then you're only making yourself out as a bigger clown because that finish looks absolutely awful!! do you guys really think that is a professional looking finish??? @TheRealBertMoog I know you think I'm just being a hateful troll spewing hate, but that's honestly not what I'm doing. One of the phenomena that TH-cam has created is the "trusted authority" - people who post videos demonstrating their knowledge and skills and providing what to lay people is a tutorial. Properly produced and presented "trusted authority" videos have been a huge educational boon to the worldwide YT audience for the better part of 2 decades. My beef here is that anyone who assumes the mantle of trusted authority in their video also assumes the responsibility of knowing what they're doing / talking about. This video I'm sorry to say is an example where the trusted authority hasn't lived up to that responsibility. That's my beef. If you still think I;m what's wrong with the world then so be it. All the best
This stupid music ruined an otherwise very detailed and tutorial video-- reading the subtitles is the only option to get through this video -- There is too much brushed lacquer on these speaker, it woud have been better to us a spray gun to apply the varnish in very thin coats a few times over-- I very much like the crossovers with HQ parts in them but then you put cheap binding posts with steel nuts in the signal path.....D'oh
I was on the edge of my seat for this one! You proved all my doubts wrong. Well done.
Thanks for the comment. Merry xmas
A true craftsman, he didn’t need $30k in tools, no 3D software, just the bare minimum, some elbow grease and a lot of skill!
Thanks nice of you to say have a great day.
At last…someone who actually cuts small pieces from a huge sheet without waste, and not cutting from the centre of a sheet 👍
Love the CNC scanner 👍
Agree! I am tired watching how most of DIY'ers cut a small piece from the center of large sheets.
I managed to make both speakers out of only one sheet YES :-) Felt great! Thanks for the comment. Merry xmas
@ and cut small dia metal with an angle grinder , use very expensive cnc machinery to make simple parts while telling you it’s a 5 min job 🤷♂️
Masterful! This would be the build of a lifetime for me. Thank you for sharing this with us 🙏
I`m glad you liked it, thanks for the comment very encouraging :)
Excellent attention to details.
Clever cabinet construction
1. No..
1. Definitely No...
Thanks for the comment I try. happy new year
Excellent work!
Thank you very much, happy xmas.
I love this so much! That's a beautiful design and build, and unique finishing style I don't see very often. Traveling at the moment, but have this video saved to re-watch when I get home to my reference system to properly sample the sound demo!
Thank you so much for the nice comment safe travels and a happy new year to you
Thank you so much for the nice comment safe travels and a happy new year to you
Thank you so much for the nice comment safe travels and a happy new year to you
Beautiful work!
Excellent craftsmanship and music too. Bravo!
Thanks happy you liked it :)
you got some mad skills, beautiful work!
Thank you, merry xmas!
Très joli travail !
Merci
Incredible speaker build and such much attention to details, wish i had those skills... hope you enjoy. Very nice video by the way.
Thank you im happy you liked it thanks for the comment :)
Great work! In the fitting process at 5:00 you could have glue a sanding paper on the body and copy the shape by grinding the cylinder on that paper.
You a correct i don`t know where my mind was merry Xmas :)
Gigantesco trabajo de madera y una gran selección musical👋👋👋
Thanks for the comment it was a lot of wood working :) merry Xmas
Great work👌
Thanks for the comment. merry Xmas :)
Außergewöhnlich! Ich wünsche Dir, dass die Lautsprecher so gut klingen, wie sie aussehen. Grüße aus Norddeutschland und ein guten Rutsch ins nächste Jahr!
danke schön Frohes Neues Jahr. :)
Intéressant cette conception, ça donne des idées, merci pour la vidéo.
Merci, Joyeus noël
Joyeux noël ;-)
@mustbuildsomething Joyeux Noël à toi et tes proches aussi, merci pour ton partage :-"
Good morning 🌅, Nice design, this might help, if you put double sided tape on to a full sheet of sand paper and place it on the surface of the front of the cabinets then the driver housing you rub up and down the cabinets you should have a good fit for the housing to cabinets,
Good luck with your project, I have built a very large pair of transmission line cabinets many years ago, just recently had to replace the drivers with SEAS DRIVERS 10” and 1” tweeter, powered by NAD , merry Christmas and happy new year, for 2025 ,
That is a great idea, nicely thought of. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you
Just wanted to comment, to help you build your channel.
Stumbled upon your Channel and watched five videos so far. Your content is excellent! Interesting builds, interesting techniques, AMSR-like mellow and low key combined with great audio and commentary - this must take you a lot of time to edit, thank you! And you are very funny - I really like your comments 😊
Greetings from a fellow Dane 😊
Tak for den fine kommentar, det er sjovt, når der pludselig er en dansker, der ser med :-) Godt Nytår
@mustbuildsomething Tak for svaret - og godt nytår til dig også :-)
Excellent work! I wish I had just a fraction of that skill. I’ve been eyeing those Monacor drivers for open baffle mid/high duty.
Sounds interesting, I think it is great drivers for the price. Happy New Year!
Great work - very nice speakers 😊👍👍
Thank you have a great new year ;)
This was a really nice video and y=the speaker looks great.
Thank you for the comment, happy New Year ;-)
спасибо за юмор в озвучке)))особенно про сканер!!!
Thanks I am happy you got it ;-)
17:03 Perfect solder.. amazing!!
Good my friend 👍 good video 📹
Thank you, nice channel :-)
Very nice build! This video will help me with my curved build. A point of improvement is the cylinders that are used for mounting are round and the speakers are mounted in their centers, which will cause equal diffraction from every way, amplifying the diffracted frequency. For this reason, manufacturers use face plates that will allow uneven diffraction. A deep roundover could also help here.
Thanks for the comment. The shape of the speaker itself is drop-shaped which is really good for killing sound waves but if they can't get out of the speaker rings it isn't good. Hope I understood your comment correctly.
@ the drop shaped cabinet helps a lot with the cabinet resonance and standing weaves within the cabinet itself.
Diffraction happens on the baffle since there is a lot of vibrations around the speaker driver which will exit the speaker at the edge of the baffle. This unwanted sound is amplified if the distance between the driver center and the edge of the baffle is the same. Meaning drivers mounted on a cylinder suffer the most.
Fantastic video, thanks
Thank you for the comment have a nice Xmas
Awesome craftsmanship! I really enjoyed this build video. However my associacion with sewage plumbing is overwhelming...😂
You should just think about saving Princess Peach :-) Merry xmas
Emek verilen sevgiyle yapılan her şey güzeldir. Çok güzel oldu 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank for the kind words, happy New Year!
@mustbuildsomething 🙏🙋🏻♂️
Красавчик 👍 надо самому повторить.
Thanks for the comment.
Great effort, nice looking end results.
Hope you enjoy listening to your music 😊
Thank you, I love listening to music always
Beautiful job they remind me of the fyne f1 and we all know how much they cost you did a very fine job mate
Thank you, the Fyne f1 looks interesting would love to hear them. Happy New Year :-)
Would be nice to hear them live 😊👍👍👍
Could be cosy it`s not a lot that comes trough on a video ;)
Merci beaucoup le travail d'ébénisterie est tout simplement magique ❤
Thank you :)
You are a master of more trades than I care to count. What a nice build and it sounds very well too. Only small detail would be a better connecting fitting like GR's linier type and maybe vertical instead of horisontal grain direction would look better.
Complimenti che bello realizzazione. Bravissimo.
Grazie
Incredible build! 👍👍👍
Thanks :-) Happy New Year!
Fantastic looks amazing 👌👌👌 great job
Thanks for watching and the comment :)
What an amazing idea to use foldable mdf. Box shape should help with standing waves. I think I'm gonna do the same but with different drivers. The only thing which I would change are those speakers holes. They sticking out to much but I can imagine it's hard task to do it differently.
Looking back i would definitely have made them shorter for looks and sound. Thanks for the comment.
Great job
Great comment, happy New Year!
Good work, though I would have preferred a satin matted finish and set the grain direction along the vertical. But it has to fit to your liking..
Wonderful 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks have a great Xmas ;)
Sehr gute Arbeit, Respekt 👍
Danke schön :-)
Interesting build and well executed. I would have added a good radius on the inside of the woofer through hole as the total depth was quite large and would behave like a tube with the edge diffraction of the inner edge. But nicely done !
The speaker rings have a cutout that is approximately 15 mm bigger than the woofer cutout with a chamfer from the cutout.. Looking back I would have made the "tube" shorter - great question, nicely observed!
@ I’m a big follower of Danny Richie at GR-Research and learn a lot from him and his Tech talks and upgrades
Beautiful!
Thanks a lot . Have a nice weekend
Strasznie dużo roboty
Yes, thanks for the comment :-)
Well done.
Thank you :-)
That specific "piano" finish over wood veneer can take anywhere from 7 to 12 layers of clear coat with sanding in between every few coats to reduce orange peel that could cause optical defects in the thick layer of clear coat.
The only thing that I will point out as a point of contention is the use of those terminal posts. They look like there's some steel in there. Ideally you'd want to use copper or brass terminal posts to avoid the high frequency attenuation that steel posts can sometimes exhibit.
While I don't generally advocate for omitting a tweeter in favor of a wide-band midrange driver, it can provide a unique sound if you do so and is still quite viable for certain types of music. Just expect for there to be more beaming in the high frequencies with higher volume outputs.
Thanks for the comment, I can only agree :-)
Congratulation.
Thanks for the comment, happy New Year!
Bellissime!!!!
Merci
Almost makes me think that I can do this… well maybe almost almost😊
I believe in you, if you have the time ;)
respect fo effort.
Thanks for the comment.
Bien 👍
Merci
Gorgeous speakers, but i prefer speakers that don't need a subwoofer to dig deeper.
I would've probably made a bit bigger speaker in diameter and added a strong 8" sub downfiring with a back port.
Each to their own.
I agree, I would like that speaker too. Thanks for the comment, merry xmas.
They look great although I think this flexible Mdf needs a double sheet as there's a lot of places the mdf is now only a few mm thick.
Thanks for the comment, the glue is filling out the cutouts. When I knock on the speaker it sounds more dense than normal 19 mm thick mdf, I guess because of the curve.
Good jop.Bravo
Thank you have a merry Xmas :)
Congratulations, what a well executed and original speaker! It also sounds well, are you satisfied with the result?
Where did you get the kit with drivers and crossover?
Nice speakers! 😊👍✅️
It was a DIY site that unfortunately closed, but I believe the papers said Humble Homemade HiFi, so he probably designed it. However I can't find it on his site!
amazing, when can i make it too.
Thanks, don`t thinks I can share crossover design thats not mine. But you can copy everything else;)
I don't know how precise your volume measurement needed to be but the square having the same area is an assumption. If the triangle point was 60 degrees (equalateral triangle) the area would be 280 vs the 297 for the square. I think you have something like an 80/50/50 triangle which should make the difference even greater as the closer to a circle the shape is, the lower the area for a given perimeter (where the lowest possible area is a perfect circle).
Thanks for the comment, I am not sure that I understand:-) Merry xmas
👍👍
Dobra robota. Głośniki i zwrotnica muszą przepracować 200 godzin, żeby pokazać pełnie brzmienia.
Thanks for the comment and advice :)
nice build but I came for the DIY speaker drivers?
I didn`t think that one through... It is going great with the video, I think I will wait with changing the titel for the algorithm gods
Think he means who manufactured the drivers, model etc., nice vid, have subed
@@thebeaglebeat3615 No I meant, the title says DIY speaker drivers, and I was looking forward to seeing speaker drivers made.
Hope you used a respirator when painting. 2k paints are nasty for you.
....... and when cutting and sanding MDF
Thanks for the comment you are of course right :-)
Yeah mdf sanding is the worst. I try to remember :-)
Try it with the FR driver ran open on top of the box. Retune the woofer to warm the medrange, and slope the top open FR driver back by about 20 degrees. It will be point source and dipole for the best image you will hear.
Sounds interesting ;) Thanks for the comment
Dipole, point source wha? Im new to home audio. I know mainly mobile audio.
Its hard to watch at them
Broooo ask Someone with cnc.
Happy new year ;)
900
Качество пайки за гранью добра и зла 🤦♂
Thanks for the comment.
Wear a mask when cutting MDF its nasty stuff.
I try to remember, it really is :-) Happy New Year
69 😎Nice!
Nice comment ;)
you worked too much on the boxes for those spk .
Yes but it`s the only way i can learn Thanks for the comment.
Strange video. With so many woodworking and finishing videos on TH-cam, this one shows you doing a clear finish that looks really awful. You haven't sanded sufficiently between coats to flatten before applying the next coat. The result is a wavy-looking mess, as if someone poured syrup all over the speakers. The reflecting light against that clear coat only makes the effect worse.
Also, by the way, at 4:40 you mention that you have a CNC -- then why are you cutting all those MDF parts by hand with a trim router and a template?? that's the kind of thing a CNC is perfect for! Really don't understand.
Lastly, at 12:30 you tapped threads into the black piece but then immediately proceeded to not use them and instead you just jammed the binding posts through the threaded holes with brute force. Again, it makes no sense!
There is only 2 sec of me sanding you can't see how much I have sanded. If I sand any more it will go through. I say in the video that if you want a real high gloss finish you will have to sand and clear coat it again. I worked with painting cars for 9 years .
The whole thing with the scanner and CNC was a joke sorry you did not get it. Lastly there was no threads on the binding posts they are made to be forced in. I just used the drill that I had and yes it is made for making threads. Merry xmas
@carlpetitt2241 Dude get over yourself. You are what's wrong with the world.
the information flew right over your head
@mustbuildsomething I would have used a coarser grit sand paper for better adhesion.. but im not an automotive finish guy as you were.. just a lowly finish carpenter 🤣.. at any rate, wonderful video and nice work.. Happy New Year!
ok I missed the joke about the CNC and the scanner. my bad.
We can talk about all your years of experience with automative and blah blah etc etc, but the bottom line is: that finish looks like shit, totally amateurish. But since you are someone with all those years of automotive experience, it's even more embarrassing isn't it? if you were less experienced we might understand how your finishing skills and finishing result are so poor, but if you're going to brag about all your experience, then you're only making yourself out as a bigger clown because that finish looks absolutely awful!! do you guys really think that is a professional looking finish???
@TheRealBertMoog I know you think I'm just being a hateful troll spewing hate, but that's honestly not what I'm doing. One of the phenomena that TH-cam has created is the "trusted authority" - people who post videos demonstrating their knowledge and skills and providing what to lay people is a tutorial. Properly produced and presented "trusted authority" videos have been a huge educational boon to the worldwide YT audience for the better part of 2 decades. My beef here is that anyone who assumes the mantle of trusted authority in their video also assumes the responsibility of knowing what they're doing / talking about. This video I'm sorry to say is an example where the trusted authority hasn't lived up to that responsibility. That's my beef. If you still think I;m what's wrong with the world then so be it.
All the best
first
ja du var
This stupid music ruined an otherwise very detailed and tutorial video-- reading the subtitles is the only option to get through this video -- There is too much brushed lacquer on these speaker, it woud have been better to us a spray gun to apply the varnish in very thin coats a few times over-- I very much like the crossovers with HQ parts in them but then you put cheap binding posts with steel nuts in the signal path.....D'oh
Thanks for the comment, sorry you did not like all of it. The lacquer was only applied with a spray gun. Merry xmas :-)
К чему весь этот геморрой?