Dave's 8" woofer + 104mm tweeter speaker build.

[DaveFred]

Hello,

I am a little late in starting on my InDIYana 2023 build, I spent quite a bit of time testing drivers to see which ones would work best for what I wanted to do. For those who do not know, the Midwest Audio Club has an annual get together in Fort Wayne Indiana in April where one of the things they do is have a friendly theme speaker contest. This years is, Mix a =>8" driver to a tweeter <=104mm inna box <=1.5 cubic feet. My entry will be a Wavecor WF223BD01 8.75" woofer, Seas Prestige 27TBCD/GB-DXT tweeter and Dayton 10" passive radiator in about a 1.3 cubic foot box, about 21" tall, 15" deep and 12" wide.

Enclosure front/back/top/bottom will a pseudo translam with me making translam panels then butt joining them with a lock rebate joint. The baffle itself will start out as a 3" thick panel, but more than half by weight will be removed from it by the time the enclosure is done. Top/bottom/back will be ~1.125" thick panels with the sides being regular 3/4" baltic birch panels with ~1/4" cherry thick veneer applied to them.

BTW, I am soliciting name suggestions for this build, so please suggest some!

[DaveFred]

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[1Michael]

Sea of Waves😆

[tktran]

the Sea Waves

[JonMarsh]

Hello,

I am a little late in starting on my InDIYana 2023 build, I spent quite a bit of time testing drivers to see which ones would work best for what I wanted to do. For those who do not know, the Midwest Audio Club has an annual get together in Fort Wayne Indiana in April where one of the things they do is have a friendly theme speaker contest. This years is, Mix a =>8" driver to a tweeter <=104mm inna box <=1.5 cubic feet. My entry will be a Wavecor WF223BD01 8.75" woofer, Seas Prestige 27TBCD/GB-DXT tweeter and Dayton 10" passive radiator in about a 1.3 cubic foot box, about 21" tall, 15" deep and 12" wide.

Enclosure front/back/top/bottom will a pseudo translam with me making translam panels then butt joining them with a lock rebate joint. The baffle itself will start out as a 3" thick panel, but more than half by weight will be removed from it by the time the enclosure is done. Top/bottom/back will be ~1.125" thick panels with the sides being regular 3/4" baltic birch panels with ~1/4" cherry thick veneer applied to them.

BTW, I am soliciting name suggestions for this build, so please suggest some!

Great stuff! I love it when the sawdust starts to fly!

[DaveFred]

Doesn't sound like much when you say it, but took a fair amount of time, cut out the driver openings in the baffle and fastened T-nuts on the back of the baffle for fasteners to hold the drivers in,

[DaveFred]

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[DaveFred]

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[svenarajala]

Excellent share of all the pics for this build!

I'm trying to think of a creative name... I like the first 2, so I will just throw this one out there... Bamboo Tsunami