Ultimate DIY speaker design?

Thanks Face,

I suppose good bang for the buck was when I did it a decade ago

but nowadays the drivers and parts are not cheap anymore.

I had my whole cost no object 3 way cross over for a few hundred bucks; nowadays the same part will cost over 1k. (used 12 gaugae foil inductors)

Back then the King of speaker caps were the Hoveland musi caps, and nowadays the Mundorf is the king. and I checked the prices, if I want to switch the tweeter cap with the Mundorf then it will be like $200 bucks.

(back then, crazy and single, now married with children. wife won't let it happen!)

Having said that, i'm contemplating buidling a 2 way sealed for HT. Will buy a used REL as SUB.

Here's an excellent bang for the buck kit: http://www.madisound.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=35_38_436&products_id=8644

That's an excellent deal. Since I don't build the box myself, the whole thing together is about $800-900. So now the question is, what can I get for $800-$900 used? probably a used pair of ProAcs.

I'm sure the kit has much better quality in terms of parts than the ProAcs, but then which one will sound better is still yet to be confirmed.

Face, I'm curious in knowing your designs.

cheers,

KC

I have written a couple of practical books on loudspeaker and crossover design:

http://novelbooks.weebly.com/index.html

Mac

Here's taking the guess work out of it for you

Best of Luck

Peter