Building desktop speakers

[sifis_samos]

I am willing to build a pair of small desctop speakers for my pc. I already have built a nice tripath ta2024 to drive them.
So an option is the μfonken, but i dont know if my fe83en will be ok for this project, and i am not willing to pay 100e for another pair of 3inch ..
Any other suggestion? For lets say 2-3max lts cabinet?
My target is a mild speaker, not aggressive and pleasant to listen for hours.

[picowallspeaker]

My suggestion is to use a fe83en in a 2-3 lts cabinet .

[sifis_samos]

You mean the recomended cabinet by fostex? Well i havent heard so many good thoughts about these default cabinets.
Any other thought?

[picowallspeaker]

Two fe83en in 0,5 lts and two subwoofers

[dantheman]

You may want to go to the FullRange forum for this. People there might be able to help you better if you want to stick with a FRer. Zaph has a 5" two way kit sold through Madisound that looks pretty good. It was just recommended for the same purpose on another forum yesterday.

Good Luck,

Dan

[sreten]

Hi, Try searching, there loads of threads on this subject, /Sreten.

[planet10]

Originally Posted by picowallspeaker

My suggestion is to use a fe83en in a 2-3 lts cabinet .

I did some sims. This driver sort of works in uFonken but rolloff is pretty ugly and xMax is exceeded long before 1 W input (2nd sim -- the well behaved curve is FF85).

2-20 litres sealed would be my recommendation... these sim pretty close, you get a slightly smaller bump at rolloff with the bigger box (1st sim).

dave

[Bigun]

Dave - look like you have some kind of box sim that works on the Mac - is this freeware that I can get a cop of ?

[sifis_samos]

Guys everybody makes the same mistake.. I asked for a small speaker, maximum 2-3liters, so any option with 4 or 5inch drivers simply will not do! i want to place them right-left to my monitor, and so, i dont want to cover all my desk with 2 larger speakers.
μFonkens i think that are the best for this job.. but i find it strange that there is no design using a 3inch woofer for example and a small tweeter..

[Scottmoose]

I'm not particularly. Main issue is that a 3in woofer is essentially an oxymoron; you can't beat the laws of physics. It will either have a high Fs, adequate sensitivity & miserable power-handling, or a low[er -these things are relative] Fs, greater power-handling (again, these things being relative), but miserable sensitivity.

When you get down to 2in - 3.5in sized drivers, IMO, there is little benefit to going 2-way, viz. a very small midbass + a tweeter. A high quality wideband driver of that size will do pretty much everything the equivalently proportioned 2 way would. On the bottom end it will have almost exactly the same compromises, but no XO means no attendent issues related to such devices, and less components = potentially reduced costs.

I use a pair of uFonkens for exactly these duties myself; they're as good as anything I've heard for this purpose, better than most, and even make handy micro-monitors. Annoyingly good actually, within the obvious limitations that you would expect of course.