I’m happy to sign up to DIY Audio. Thanks to the people here involved in making so much useful knowledge available. In the last few years, wanting to learn some woodworking and appreciating quality gear and music, I have made a few audio things like absorbers and diffusers for room acoustics, and then a pair of Voigt pipe speakers. They turned out so well that they are all I really need. But!, I’m not done with making speakers, yet.
I hope to ask a few questions regarding my current project, more involved than the pipes, an active hybrid open-baffle speaker using Hypex Fusion amps. I am almost at the point of installing a port and testing the prototype bass cabinet, modeled after the Qualio IQ.
I have attached photos of listening room with my Voigt Pipes (Cube Audio F10 Select drivers), Benchmark DAC3 HGC and Kinki Studio EX-B7 monoblock amps.
I hope to ask a few questions regarding my current project, more involved than the pipes, an active hybrid open-baffle speaker using Hypex Fusion amps. I am almost at the point of installing a port and testing the prototype bass cabinet, modeled after the Qualio IQ.
I have attached photos of listening room with my Voigt Pipes (Cube Audio F10 Select drivers), Benchmark DAC3 HGC and Kinki Studio EX-B7 monoblock amps.
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Welcome from the Left Coast :^)
How do you like the F10s?
Where did the Voigt design come from?
dave
How do you like the F10s?
Where did the Voigt design come from?
dave
Hi, the F10s are wonderful. Could not be happier with the way they sound. (insert the usual glowing adjectives, really) In case you are wondering if I actually paid all that $, I lucked out on a great Black Friday deal on those drivers from a dealer in Quebec. I had started getting ready to build a different speaker (the Helios but w/HypexFusion) when the Cubes became available, so I jumped on them as a perfect first speaker build. (no crossover) As a result, I have been sitting on the Hypex amps and some drivers for a while.
The dimensions for the Voigt pipes were generously provided by Janos of Real World Audio channel on You Tube in a video graciously made in response to a question I asked him. (the vid. pops up if you search for the Cube F10 Select driver on YT) The manifestation that handful of simple numbers into a cabinet of unique design was 100% my ideas and efforts, built over several months using pretty basic tools and 50 y.o. old, ‘repurposed’ wood I had at hand. So great. I’ll make a post of the, for me, epic process sometime.
Hey Dave,
Thanks for your reply. I’m sorry but I’m unsure what you mean. What did you want to know? …the plans for the new speaker? I thought this was just for introductions, rather than technical discussions.
Thanks for your reply. I’m sorry but I’m unsure what you mean. What did you want to know? …the plans for the new speaker? I thought this was just for introductions, rather than technical discussions.
Cool! Should you happen to find yourself in Calgary on April 23, you're welcome to join us: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...garians-get-together-2025.420531/post-7916467
Tom
Amphora, sometimes real stuff often gets mixed up in the intros.
I grew up in the flat-lands, grew up in Stettler, spent 4 years at U of A before moving west.
dave
I grew up in the flat-lands, grew up in Stettler, spent 4 years at U of A before moving west.
dave
Hi Amphora, Welcome to diyAudio forums.
I was born in Edmonton, so I know what your going through. I’m in Calgary now, so I too feel some of your chilling pain.
I remember meeting Dave-Planet10 back when he used to live in Edmonton, but now he gets to enjoy above zero temps in Victoria while we Albertans freeze.
Like I say: “Summer is for building speaker cabinets, Winter is for working on electronics”. Jack
I was born in Edmonton, so I know what your going through. I’m in Calgary now, so I too feel some of your chilling pain.
I remember meeting Dave-Planet10 back when he used to live in Edmonton, but now he gets to enjoy above zero temps in Victoria while we Albertans freeze.
Like I say: “Summer is for building speaker cabinets, Winter is for working on electronics”. Jack
Hi Dave, Don’t think I’ve been to Stettler. I have lived in Edmonton, Calgary, the Okanagan, Vancouver, Quebec City, all over BC doing forestry, S. Korea. Now back in Ed.
You haven’t missed much. Before Calgary it was the centre of the petrol industry in AB.
dave
dave
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Either by virtue of Murphy’s Law, or classic irony, it seems like the day after you penned that remark the temperatures in Edmonton and Calgary rose a dramatic 30 degrees C. From -25 up to +5 in the span of a day! Is winter over?
Please nobody jinx these milder temperatures by uttering “I love S………)
Jack
Hi Dave, it’s taken a couple of days to dredge through my cobweb’d memory’s, but back in the mid 70’s, when I was a teenager, I met you at a shop called “Super Service TV”. You were working in the stereo section of the store, and were very generous with advice on speaker cabinet DIY. I think the store also serviced a lot of famous brands, so you were able to bring in a wide variety of raw drivers and other components which would have been impossible to get otherwise. I’m trying to remember what all you helped me procure: eight KEF B200’s, a couple of Cerwin Vega 15”s, Dynaco Pat-4 and stereo 80 kits and loads of advice. In the days before the internet or computers, you and Audio Amateur mag were all I had.
I Know you won’t remember me, and its 50 years late, but thanks for all your help and advice, Jack
The start of my retail career. Moved from there to Sound Hounds in Victoria.
Of interest perhaps: the original Brick was a couple blocks north and the boss made a lot of business sucking off customers. There are now a million stores. All bad.
dave
Of interest perhaps: the original Brick was a couple blocks north and the boss made a lot of business sucking off customers. There are now a million stores. All bad.
dave