first project

[ceebmoj]

Hi all,

I am about to start my first speaker project. I have been reading round a number of web pages manly linked to from hear. Any way I found the following project that looks nice and simple and low cost for a first time.

http://www.vikash.info/audio/standi...c&height=175&width=111&depth=147&threshold=50

However I have also seen this wine bottle project on this web site and liked the Idea of cylindrical enclosures.

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=104218

I have a good bit of wood work experience so what I was going to do was turn cylindrical sealed wooden enclosures for the TangBand W3-871S, with a nice flowing external shape but constant diameter internal cylinder to create the sealed volume for the speaker.

As in the wine bottle project I was going to use two enclosures and drivers per side I.e. 2 on the left and two on the right.
After all that rambling my question is should I use the same internal volume as the first project i.e. 2.86 litres in a cylinder form i.e. a cylinder of r 7cm d 18.5cm roughly?

Blake

 

[John L]

That should be an interesting project. It is a good one to show your lathe skills. 🙂

 

[ceebmoj]

does any one know if I should be using the same volume?

 

[John L]

does any one know if I should be using the same volume?

I am assuming that you mean "litres" and not "decibels" correct?

 

[ceebmoj]

yes should I ues the same volume of enclosure behind the speaker of 2.86 litres? in the form of a cylinder of r 7cm d 18.6cm?

blake

 

[planet10]

Ideally the inside would be somewhat irregular to minimize standing waves. The ouside would ideally flow like the Fujitsu TEN or the midrange in the B&W Nautilus...

How are you planning to utilize 2 drivers/side? 1.5 way? Bipole?

dave