I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah!


I just received shipments of 4 subwoofer drivers and they will not be going into a distributed bass array. 

I'm replacing my left and right speaker stands with powering subwoofers with 2 subwoofer drivers each.  I call them powering because they will be powering the 2-way monitors that will sit on top.  Here's a beauty shot of the insides.

The amp has all the DSP power I could need to produce perfect speaker measurements.   I wonder if JA at Stereophile would wax poetically if I priced them high enough?? laugh

1744240613802.pngeriksquires · 2025-04-09 11:17 pm at 11:17 PM

erik_squires

I am a big fan of going fully active and have also used top notch components going with passives with great success but love the ability to fine tune with actives and overall results the best. I once owned a $7k, 25 years ago so would be much more now, pair of two way car speakers that were simply incredible as they should be. The passive crossovers looked like super high end small amps in a machined enclosure with foil caps, custom caps, very thick solid copper circuit board...yet I ended up testing then going right back to active. Of course part of that was the need for very precise tuning in the particular vehicle I had them in.

I also understand your need to do what you are doing and the fun factor of doing so with the bass department, great plan, sure it will do what you need and those look like a very good deal for the price on the (sub)woofers:)

 

Great drivers in the monitors as well!

Rick

 

 

 

Kind of like a Verity speaker with the monitor on top of the sub cabinet. Sure you are aware of isolation techniques.

Have fun! Keep updating.

I’m sad to learn that Verity Audio went out of business last year despite their website still being up.

I must admit that while the ideas and speaker are attractive I got here in a very roundabout way.  If I had had more foresight, or if I had a better budget today I’d have made something more visually coherent like the Verity models.  I'd also have kept the top units sealed and therefore much smaller.

Among the big desires for me in this project is to fully re-implement the 2-way crossover and have full control over the equalization.  I thought about going the miniDSP route, with the Flex HTx - but my Goddess how the cable count balloons.