I have been thoroughly enjoying my Yamaha WXA-50 MusicCast with my old set of B&W DM-100 speakers.
However the boxes are so old and splitting on all thr corners.
I would like to use my CNC to make some new boxes up, but would absolutely love to do something a bit unique with them. I have no issues 3d designing and carving on my 1mx1m CNC fir all sorts of things.
Something to note is that I have 4 of these bookshelf speakers that I used to have hooked up on my dads Onkyo amp. At this stage 2 of these speakers are just sitting spare with the other 2 connected to the Yamaha amp.
The sound of these speakers with the Yamaha are just beautiful. I am wondering if there is a design worth looking into for using all drivers if I build 2 larger sized bookshelf speakers.
If I were to think about using 2 of the 6inch B&W woofers with the tweaters per box, is this likely to downgrade the sound?
Are there any suggestions to repurpose all 4 speaker drivers to a new designed box to use with the Yamaha WXA-50?
Is it worth exploring having the 2nd 6" in a new box as 1 front firing and 1 side firing?
Open to ideas.
However the boxes are so old and splitting on all thr corners.
I would like to use my CNC to make some new boxes up, but would absolutely love to do something a bit unique with them. I have no issues 3d designing and carving on my 1mx1m CNC fir all sorts of things.
Something to note is that I have 4 of these bookshelf speakers that I used to have hooked up on my dads Onkyo amp. At this stage 2 of these speakers are just sitting spare with the other 2 connected to the Yamaha amp.
The sound of these speakers with the Yamaha are just beautiful. I am wondering if there is a design worth looking into for using all drivers if I build 2 larger sized bookshelf speakers.
If I were to think about using 2 of the 6inch B&W woofers with the tweaters per box, is this likely to downgrade the sound?
Are there any suggestions to repurpose all 4 speaker drivers to a new designed box to use with the Yamaha WXA-50?
Is it worth exploring having the 2nd 6" in a new box as 1 front firing and 1 side firing?
Open to ideas.
Use the additional woofers to make a 2.5 way with an inductor for the second woofer. The impedance will be about half at the lower end so make sure the amp can drive it. Keep the tweeters as spares.
The 0.5 woofer can be placed at the back of the box in line with the front woofer to give push-push arrangement and can still be a large bookshelf speaker.
The 0.5 woofer can be placed at the back of the box in line with the front woofer to give push-push arrangement and can still be a large bookshelf speaker.
Do I retain the original crossover by B&W DW100?
Do I connect the second woofer in parallel with the main driver, but add an inline inductor?
The WXA-50 can drive 75w per channel. It also has a separate RCA out for an active sub. I don't have a sub just yet. However, in saying that, I do have at my disposal 2x passive JBL Music 1 subs. Each of the subs has a 5" woofer with a coil attached to the back of the driver.
On a separate note, I am intrigued by a back loaded horn design. My CNC could very easily cut all the intricate parts. Not sure if there is an option of a bookshelf version of that design utilising 2.5.
Keep the original xo and connect the series inductor and 0.5 woofer directly to the terminal so it's in parallel (not a cascaded filter). It's easy to try out as with one of the boxes connect a 3.9mH - 4.7mH before the terminal and connect the other speaker as normal. Leave the xo and tweeter in place as the inductor will roll off the FR. Easiest is to try one channel only so amp L does the main speaker and amp R does the 0.5 woofer. Doing this will give you an idea if you like the sound.
The WXA-50 may not do a 4 ohm load as the specs show power into 6 ohm but 4 ohm is shown in the user manual specs so a bit hazy. It has a sub out RCA at line level and also has RL Aux line out but they would be fixed line level so no volume control from them. The JBL passive subs would need their own power amplifiers.
The WXA-50 may not do a 4 ohm load as the specs show power into 6 ohm but 4 ohm is shown in the user manual specs so a bit hazy. It has a sub out RCA at line level and also has RL Aux line out but they would be fixed line level so no volume control from them. The JBL passive subs would need their own power amplifiers.