Hi everyone - noobie here. I was into speaker building when I was a bit younger, but fell away from the true arts as priorities changed.
I want to build a floor standing tower type enclosure and have been thinking about using some "economy" speakers. I like the looks and description of the Statment series (the Monitor and Mini versions, specifically). Unfortunately, I don't want to sink $500 - $600 into the project just for parts.
I have been looking at the 6.5 inch Dayton DC160-8 as a possible woofer for a new project. In addition to cost, I like these because they seem to perform well in a small box. I have been running some scenarios and it looks these will respond down to ~43Hz with a pretty flat response curve. This is in a ported enclosure tuned to 43Hz.
Because the enclosure demands are small, I was thinking that I could put two of them into a 1 cu ft enclosure. This will maintain the tuning mentioned above.
I am throwing around the idea of wiring 4 of these woofers in series-parallel. This would have the benefit of keeping the load at 8 ohms, increasing cone area, and will increase power handling. Each pair (or single?) woofer would be in a sub-enclosure.
I have some ideas on a mid and tweeter, but maybe we can start with this. I think, as with other projects here, the crossover is going to be the biggest challenge, and I could use some help there. It sounds like I will need to consider baffle step correction in the design.
Any thoughts are appreciated!
Thanks
I want to build a floor standing tower type enclosure and have been thinking about using some "economy" speakers. I like the looks and description of the Statment series (the Monitor and Mini versions, specifically). Unfortunately, I don't want to sink $500 - $600 into the project just for parts.
I have been looking at the 6.5 inch Dayton DC160-8 as a possible woofer for a new project. In addition to cost, I like these because they seem to perform well in a small box. I have been running some scenarios and it looks these will respond down to ~43Hz with a pretty flat response curve. This is in a ported enclosure tuned to 43Hz.
Because the enclosure demands are small, I was thinking that I could put two of them into a 1 cu ft enclosure. This will maintain the tuning mentioned above.
I am throwing around the idea of wiring 4 of these woofers in series-parallel. This would have the benefit of keeping the load at 8 ohms, increasing cone area, and will increase power handling. Each pair (or single?) woofer would be in a sub-enclosure.
I have some ideas on a mid and tweeter, but maybe we can start with this. I think, as with other projects here, the crossover is going to be the biggest challenge, and I could use some help there. It sounds like I will need to consider baffle step correction in the design.
Any thoughts are appreciated!
Thanks
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