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Well, with Kevin's (KJP) help I'm building/designing my first speakers. These are the DA175's I was given like last year by a member on here (Sorry I forget who it was 
ops: but thanks!) and Kevin has graciously provided some Dayton DC28 silkies for the tweets. The tweets are modded as here:
http://www.partsexpress.com/projects...kdome/mod.html. The brace is the only thing that came out a little rough, but it's inside so it doesn't matter :twisted: This is two days of work 8O Thanks to my friend Mr. Beitz I finished the basic cabinets in one day. He's an awesome older guy I know, I called to see if he could help me out with some cuts (I don't have a table saw) and when we finished he said, "You wanna just finish these things?" And we did
Let me tell you, for quick construction there's nothing like a brad nailer. Glue, nail, move on :T Anyway, we're looking at .8 cu ft. Tuned to 32ish hz. These are partly just my first venture into speaker design so I wanted to do a ported design rather than just having WinISD and Unibox tell me X volume is .707 and build it to that. I wanted something a bit more hands on so I played with ported alignments until I got what I thought was the best compromise between extended response, box size, port size, power handling etc. The woofers can only play full range up to 15W which should be around 95 db. I figure for near field (Using them as my dorm/computer speakers) in the brick dorms I'm in they'll be great! Plus I plan to add a subwoofer. THis might have caused some to just make them sealed, but I can push them much harder if I pass to a sub around 60 hz or so and they are still flatter below around 80hz I think so it's good! :T Well, it's been great fun so far! Here's the pics. Bondo is a beginner cabinet builder's friend, especially a beginner cabinet builder who drops his box on it's corner while moving it across the garage...
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ops: but thanks!) and Kevin has graciously provided some Dayton DC28 silkies for the tweets. The tweets are modded as here:http://www.partsexpress.com/projects...kdome/mod.html. The brace is the only thing that came out a little rough, but it's inside so it doesn't matter :twisted: This is two days of work 8O Thanks to my friend Mr. Beitz I finished the basic cabinets in one day. He's an awesome older guy I know, I called to see if he could help me out with some cuts (I don't have a table saw) and when we finished he said, "You wanna just finish these things?" And we did
Let me tell you, for quick construction there's nothing like a brad nailer. Glue, nail, move on :T Anyway, we're looking at .8 cu ft. Tuned to 32ish hz. These are partly just my first venture into speaker design so I wanted to do a ported design rather than just having WinISD and Unibox tell me X volume is .707 and build it to that. I wanted something a bit more hands on so I played with ported alignments until I got what I thought was the best compromise between extended response, box size, port size, power handling etc. The woofers can only play full range up to 15W which should be around 95 db. I figure for near field (Using them as my dorm/computer speakers) in the brick dorms I'm in they'll be great! Plus I plan to add a subwoofer. THis might have caused some to just make them sealed, but I can push them much harder if I pass to a sub around 60 hz or so and they are still flatter below around 80hz I think so it's good! :T Well, it's been great fun so far! Here's the pics. Bondo is a beginner cabinet builder's friend, especially a beginner cabinet builder who drops his box on it's corner while moving it across the garage...Image not available
obviously I made all the other parts to fit one way and the rear to the otherway and it took me a minute to figure out what I'd done.
Nice to see that you're putting them to use.
. Here are the pics! I oversanded the top on one side of one of the boxes, so I had to add a 1/16 or so layer of bondo and feather it in, it turned out just fine.
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