Who has built their own speaker systems

I built some in a crude way decades ago, but more recently wanted to modify an enclosure to hold subwoofers. Dunlavy recommended joining the DIY Loudspeakers list, and I did, and got a discount on the subs I bought and a lot of good advice. You'll be buried in email, but you can delete most of it. I don't have the Web address, but you could do a search and find it. If you can't find it, get back to me and I'll try to find it in my chaotic records. There are a lot of RFEALLY knowledgeable people writing for the list, as well as the usual assortment of flakes (as far as I can tell). Good luck!

Just curious . Hey Carl ,don't be bashful . I'll admit in the early 70's I obtained a set of plans , ( pages and a full scale orthographic plan (top) view ), for "The Mello Monsters" and built four of them . They were an article, I believe, from an early 60's Popular Electronics monthly magazine . They were a folded horn labyrinth enclosure , supposedly equal to a 16 foot straight horn . They each took a sheet and a half of 4x8 plywood , I used marine grade particle board 3/4 thick . That was some tough board to cut . Used 4 Lafayette 12" woofers , 4 Phillips 5" mid ranges , and 8 Philips dome tweeters- 2 per cabinet . Bought a Lafayette LR-5000 4 channel reciever 40wrms x 4 . I'll have to say it was impressive to hear weird sounds and passages of music that sounded as if one was in the orchestra . I still have a pair in the basement . They can take a small wattage and shake the house and still sound decent . I miss stores like Lafayette , some carried top brand name audio electronics , and you could order them through the mail from their catalog . Who' next ? FBI .

My design ideas are less extreme and perhaps more elegant, but I don't feel the need to be ridiculed by the jerkwads on here that don't know as much about speaker design as I do (which is most all of them). A few of my designs might be good enough to be "world beaters" one day, you never know. The point is, you started this thread as sort of a confessional to say "look what I did tens of years ago...gee, I'm glad I'm past that stage now"...There's entirely too much of that bull dung going on in this hobby already. I just don't look at speaker design that way, and don't feel the need to justify my speaker design philosophies to anyone in a public forum, because the "public" doesn't need to know anyhow. And as far as nano-decible measurements go, the human variable is never absent in gathering this "data", and certainly no one on this forum has their room dialed in enough to make use of such skilled-labor intensive testing/manufacturing. And most assuredly, anyone who can't even hear the full frequency range to begin with (anyone over age 40), has no business commenting on loudspeakers in the first place. I'm a speaker hobbyist and audiophile, and I refuse to apologize for my philosophy to anyone, especially if they think they've "seen it all, heard it all"!