Past History: My First Loudspeaker by max-
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I don't think I ever posted this photo -- it's my very first loudspeaker.
It cost me $15 total to make: $10 for the 8-inch driver and $5 for the piezo tweeter. The rest was scrap wood, wire and a few electronic parts I had lying around.
Now the interesting part was that this loudspeaker sounded much better than my 3-way Jensens which were twice the size and 20X the cost. Its sound was simply more accurate and pleasant, with a tight punchy bass.
But even more interesting was the piezo tweeter which was a total piece of garbage when front-facing. But when I placed it over a cone for 360 degree dispersion, the highs suddenly opened up with the most spacious, natural sound I ever heard!
A few months later I built two much bigger 3-way loudspeakers, better than the Jensens, but still not quite as good as this one.
I hope I didn't bore too many people to death with this post;-)
Comments (3)
This is awesome !!!!!!
I remember the time as if it were yesterday when you could build anything to achieve the sound, big bass, mids, tweets but what I find most interesting is how you mounted your tweeter on a cone to flood the high sounds into the box....genius.....where were you when I was fitting out my house and car :)
Great share Max, a surprise and a joy :)
Bored? Nah... I just happened to think of my stepfather. He used to build his own speakers, too. They never looked this cool, though—and he always loved cranking the volume up so high that the speaker cones would eventually tear lol
I like it. You can certainly knock together sound systems that are considerably cheaper than big-name brands.
The speakers attached to the amplifier I used for my mixing desk consist of two cabinets with a pair if 18 inch dual concentrics in each - these cover bass and mid-range fantastically. For the top end I use a pair of very cheap stereo speakers obtained second hand.
The overall sound from this Frankenstein setup is just fantastic to my ears. :-)