I’m considering building the Heissmann DXT Wave floor standers. I’m leaning toward the active build, but might go passive. These will be used for stereo music and as main left/right for home theater.
Before settling on the build, I’d like to find a center channel design that is compatible (the same speakers, ideally). On the DXT wave website, Alexander says to use the DXT-mon as a center channel, but there’s no way my wife would let that sit below our TV. I need to find something that looks somewhat like a typical center, meaning short in height and long horizontally.
Does anyone know a design that might fit the bill? I was wondering if I could even modify the DXT wave design to lay sideways in a W-T/M-W arrangement. I’m not too keen on modifying that design, especially since the circular baffle cutout detail is pretty critical to getting to DXT tweeter performance right. Although maybe that isn’t very important when laid horizontally.
Has anyone else here actually built the DXT wave? i’ve seen a number of people say it’s a good design, but I haven’t seen any kind of build logs or first hand reviews.
Thanks for any advice!
Before settling on the build, I’d like to find a center channel design that is compatible (the same speakers, ideally). On the DXT wave website, Alexander says to use the DXT-mon as a center channel, but there’s no way my wife would let that sit below our TV. I need to find something that looks somewhat like a typical center, meaning short in height and long horizontally.
Does anyone know a design that might fit the bill? I was wondering if I could even modify the DXT wave design to lay sideways in a W-T/M-W arrangement. I’m not too keen on modifying that design, especially since the circular baffle cutout detail is pretty critical to getting to DXT tweeter performance right. Although maybe that isn’t very important when laid horizontally.
Has anyone else here actually built the DXT wave? i’ve seen a number of people say it’s a good design, but I haven’t seen any kind of build logs or first hand reviews.
Thanks for any advice!
Would you settle for a DXT Wave for a center channel, only without the woofer parts?
Once you have ordered them, you could experiment a bit. I would do that.
Once you have ordered them, you could experiment a bit. I would do that.
Yes, horizontally laid. Sound radiation would depend on the crossover filter. It may be a different one from original,
something to be explored. If you were determined to acquire dxt wave as L/R speakers, it would be possible to
experiment with mtm before commiting to it.
something to be explored. If you were determined to acquire dxt wave as L/R speakers, it would be possible to
experiment with mtm before commiting to it.
Understood. Do you think it would be a bad idea to try the whole thing as a W-T/M-W configuration? You have a good point about just buying the speakers to try it if I want to build the wave anyways.
Worst case I just use all those drivers as a left or right channel if it doesn’t work out.
Worst case I just use all those drivers as a left or right channel if it doesn’t work out.