diy studio monitors

[augerpro]

How are you going to deal with baffle step?

While active XO have their strengths they are not a substitute for knowledge and experience in speaker design, especially an off the shelf one. My suggestion is either 1) learn how design a loudspeaker, starting with the passive XO, or 2) build an established design like these: http://www.rjbaudio.com/Microbe%20SE/microbe%20SE.html
http://zaphaudio.com/SR71.html
http://zaphaudio.com/ZBM4.html
or my favorite: http://htguide.com/forum/showthread.php4?t=27583

[MikeHunt79]

Originally posted by dondiba
otherwise i think about a new monacor driver of same kind = coax.sp-30pax :

http://www.monacor.de/en/produktseit...pr=EN&typ=full

interesting point : no cross over is required if i understand well
thank you for your opinion
regards
dondiba

I've also been looking at this driver for nearfield studio monitor use...

I'm sure it should sound good without a tweeter, but you'll definatly need a sub as you'll struggle to get much below 100hz out of it. It seems sensitive, and has had some good write ups on here.

I already have a sub, so I'm also looking to build nearfield studio monitors sometime in the future. This driver seems to tick all the boxes, just use a HPF...

EDIT: Ignor everything I just said about the above driver, I thought you mean't this one:

Monacor SPH-30X

http://www.monacor.dk/produkter/hoej...-4/vnr/104400/

I got the names mixed up as they both have "30" in them.

Originally posted by taloyd
Hello,

Not sure what computing platform you're going to be using, but for music from the computer, I use Foobar 2000 with a crossover plug-in. As most computers today have both the CPU overhead and a 6/8 channel soundcard, I'm just using the computer itself as an active crossover, and feeding the outputs to an old NAD 6 channel amplifier.

If you can find a piece of software that does this outside of Foobar, it will save you the $200, which can be used elsewhere...

peace,
-tal

Good idea, but remember you'll need a multichannel soundcard to pull this off...

My delta 1212m only has 2 (very good) analogue outs, so I'd have to upgrade to the 1616m if I was going to go for a 3 way diginal crossover.

Also, using something like e-mu's patchmix can work well for making your own crossovers at driver level, so it will work with all software. It's fiddly but it works.