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Thread: Building center channel |
    
New member Username: Fusseli
Post Number: 1
Registered: Oct-04
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| Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 12:58 am: |
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i have been slowly changing paths of my home audio over to my home theater system. i have phased out computer speakers and run everything from my comp (audigy2 zs) to my receiver now (denon avr-685) on 6.1. i have a modest set of speakers pieced together from a pair of old Fisher towers, to an old Bose monitor as my center, and 3 acoustic authority speakers as my rears. ive been looking at upgrading speakers but i dont like the prices for quality material in home theater equipment; stuff gets expensive really fast.
my solution is to build my speakers, one by one per channel. i am starting with the center, as my bose monitor only has 1 full-range speaker i think replacing it would make the biggest improvment for my system right now.
i have bought all parts and am about half way through consruction of the speaker. it is 2-way with 2 woofers and one tweeter, 1.25cuft box vented at 46hz. i designed the box in winisd pro, so i have the flattest response possible :smile: the next step in my plan is to do the surrounds and eventually towers, but towers will cost some $$ and probably wont be until next summer :frown:
the goal of the project is to take the time and craft a high-quality product at a fraction of the cost of buying a retail equivelent. the center will cost about 135$ and will hopefully be on-par with somehting in the 200$+ range.
center channel parts list:
2x Dayton Audio 6" Reference Series Woofers - 28$ each
1x Dayton Audio 1" Euro Series textile dome tweeter - 20$
2-way Dayton 2.5khz crossover - 20$ (bought one instead of crafting my own :wink
Gold Plated Speaker terminal - 3$
1/2" high-density fiber board, 2'x4' - 6$
silicon caulk - 5$
wood glue - 6$
one roll black vinyl self adhesive - 15$
note- the speaker will weigh at probably around 30lbs, which is pretty damn heavy, the speakers alone are about 10.5lbs total, and the HDF board is easily twice that.
[URL=http://www.partsexpress.com/]www.partsexpress.com[/URL]
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New member Username: Fusseli
Post Number: 3
Registered: Oct-04
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| Posted on Sunday, December 25, 2005 - 08:39 pm: |
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any comments/suggestions? please..? |
Gold Member Username: Jan_b_vigne
Dallas,
TX
Post Number: 7020
Registered: May-04
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| Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 12:00 am: |
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http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/1/184621.html |
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