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 SE/microbe SE.html
http://zaphaudio.com/SR71.html
http://zaphaudio.com/ZBM4.html
or my favorite: http://htguide.com/forum/showthread.php4?t=27583

 

[MikeHunt79]

Re: active crossover via software

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

http://www.monacor.de/en/produktseite_suche.php?artid=3226&spr=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/hoejttalerenheder-hifi-4/vnr/104400/

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

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.