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speaker redesign

for a school project, i'm redesigning the cabinet for my speakers at home. by opening up the existing speaker i found the whole design to be fairly low grade. as of right now the speaker placement consists of the bass woofer at the bottom, with the mid range and tweeter side by side above the woofer. if i were to reorient them so that they a place upwards in progression (woofer bottom, mid middle, and tweeter top) will that affect the sound at all?
exxf597
twl
3,251 posts
 
Yes, it will place the drivers in a line source configuration, which may improve imaging, and horizontal dispersion, if everything else is done right.
s7horton
1,077 posts
 
If you are really looking to change the sound, I wouldn't be aftraid to look for a different crossover. You should get pretty drastic results with a new one.
subaruguru
1,375 posts
 
You'll find AFTER measuring them at various points on the vertical axis whether or not they are more forgiving with the tweeter on top or the mid. All depends upon the drivers and the crossover. I'd suggest building the thing as a (sub)woofer cabinet on the bottom, and then a monitor on top, which will allow you to flip the top for voicing it optimally. Then you could make some in one cabinet, but you're actually better off acoustically (distortion, cabinet radiation spuriae, etc) by keeping them separate anyway! If you don't want to get this careful, then just stick the tweeter at ear level with the mid underneith, and keeping their distance as small as possible (usually...again, a function of MANY variables). You're just getting your driver's license here, so realize that this is a VERY complicated science/art, yet have fun with your first project.
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