Stuck at home? Make a speaker or something for goodness sake!

mozartfan1,271 posts08-13-2021 1:25amIts just that none, zero , of the commercial speakers interest me.
So that is why I had to design my own speaker, w/o any advice, suggestions, ideas from my tech geek nor anyone here on audiogon.
I had to make my own design, nilly willy, for the good or the bad.
Tried this, that, then swaped out that, for this, and so on.
Til finally i have pretty much my Final Speaker til death.
You could not even give me a speaker to replace my own design.
You may not like it, but thing is , its my music, my ears, and this speaker is as close to my perfect ideal of how a speaker should voice.
Again, you might say ***THAT!!**

And I will respond, Its as close to my hopes of speaker nirvana, more than I could ever expect.
Each person has to come to his own ideas/experiences of how he wishes his ideal speaker to voice.
I have plans to add a DL8, the white cone wide band
Will bea shootout twix the
DL 6.5 Neodymium
vs
DL 8/Ferrite magnet weighing in at a blsitering 8 lbs!!!!!!!!!, Woden cone
One heck of a shootout.
One or the other will be champ of wide bands.
My guess is I'll like things about both and so keep both. Swap out, depends on the music selection.
Sort of adding spice and variety.

So like yeah, my speaker is all original, my ideas, no one elses.

I had to copy this post, from another topic, full range. 
I'll just leave it there and also post it here, So folks know exactly how i arrived at my contraption, how it morphed into what IT IS,, 
What shall we call it?
Best Bang Speaker. (as in Tang Bang)

dwytopx7 posts08-12-2021 8:48pm
That's just what I did Mozart I took the Electrovoice Georgian and removed the bass cabinet covered it with Dynamat after painting it and then I time aligned the mid and Tweet. I had to take the mid range 848 out of the cabinet and put it on top because it needs to go back further than is possible inside the cabinet. With the face of the cabinet removed the mid range needs to be back 8 3/8 inches from the front of the outer cabinet and the tweeter goes where the mid range used to be and it needs to be back 9 7/8 inches. It sounds like music now making it hard for me to get off my duff and rewire it with some OCC.


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EV made some incredible drivers through the years. 
The EV A1's/1974. and many other earlier horns, wide bands and such.

I am not following about 
off setting the mid horn and tweet horn, back some inches...
Why?
If you could post a  vid like I did, so we can all see whats going on.

My only interest now is testing other DavidLouis wide bands. 
Not sure why the audiophile community has over looked this speaker line. 
My classical music never sounded better with DL wide bands. 

I could never go back to any dome mid tweeter, 2khz-15khz. 

My paper 3.5 inch tweet is the exception. Its sort of like a  wide band tweet, the cone is 3.5 inches, so dispersion is superior to any old dome tweet.  made in china, the kind you might see in  cheap speakers  way back in the 1970;s. But this lil guy is new modernized, with double magnets. 
China is making some junk speakers  for sure, but there are a  few gems in the pile.
Just need to know what to look for.
This Kasun is a gem of a  tweet at $60/pair.
The DL wide band a  real special speaker that makes muisc , which i can not get in a  commerical speaker.
I do not like any commerical speakers.
The Wilson;s I know are nice, but wayyyy too heavy, and of course wayyyy out my budget. 
So i had to make my own **Wilson** on a  budget. 

Not so much a scratch build as a strip out and major modification. Not quite finished yet, but tested at several points along the way, so no real idea of the final sound. I hope to have them finished this weekend.

I expect to have them apart several times before I’ll consider them truly finished, as with so much of my stuff, an idea will pop into my head, and in I go again, quite often I must say reverting to how it was and consigning that idea to the bin. :^)

Speakers were originally a pair of Gale GS302 that I have had doing nothing for some time.

https://cursorium.co.uk/speaker-project/

I have all the parts for both a subwoofer and an active crossover at 100 hz.  Right now I have too many summer chores to do, but I am looking forward to starting these two soon!