Quick, Easy and Cheap (but not nasty) 3-way

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Hi all,

For those on a limited budget but still want the satisfaction of DIY speaker building, I've knocked together a quick and cheap 3-way using 12" bass 'bins' and mid/tweeter satellites. The woofers are 4 ohm GDN300 (available from IPL Acoustics) with 95dB SPL in 59L enclosures. For the satellites I used the Skytronic silk dome tweeter and 130mm midrange as both match the woofer's SPL. They are cheap and readily available from Premia-Electronics on eBay. The XO is 1st order at 1000/5000Hz.

The approximate total cost (excluding shipping) of the drivers and XO components to make a pair is £70. For that sort of money the results are surprisingly good and the high efficiency means that even low power amps will have no trouble driving them.

I've done a write-up on my site here:

Quick, cheap (but not nasty) 3-way (stevesstuffproject)

Cheers,
Steve