Hi All,
I'm new to this forum and I have a new speaker project !
A few words about myself. I live in Paris, France. I'm 30, married and a child.
I'm an engineer and I like: creating stuff and listening to music...
This is what brought me to DIY audio.
Two years ago, I completed my first speaker project, with which I'm not really satisfied today... I want to start something better. It is a two-way speaker based on 2 Monacor SPH-176 woofers and a 1 Monacor DT-254 tweeter. I have a Sherwood PM-9805 Vinyle, Yamaha A-S700 and Cambridge Audio A500.
There are several problems with my current setup:
- Sound is too directional and doesn't fill the room, specially the high frequencies which are too close to the ground level. I need to sit down in the direction of the speaker to hear them loud.
- It sounds like the sound is lacking mid-range. The bass are blurry and the tweeter is ok but the mid-range is absent. The spectrum doesn't sound linear.
- Not enough power
- Don't look good
So, now I would like to have a 3-way speaker and to make it more fun, I decided to use only French loudspeakers. This is why I named my project "The French Touch":
- 1 tweeter: Audax TW025A28, 8 Ohms, 94dB, 70 WRMS
- 1 midrange: Davis Acoustics 16GKLV6M, 6.5", 8 Ohms, 95dB, 130 WRMS
- 1 sub: Atohm D300P04, 12", 4 Ohms, 91dB, 200W RMS
I have attached the plan of the speaker. Sorry for the metric system...
I would like to add two shelfs at the bottom of the speaker, in order for the tweeter to be higher to the ceiling. I don't know if it's a good idea. It doesn't look good... In any case I need an idea to put my speakers higher than just putting them on the floor.
I intend to use a first order passive filter with the following layout:
- Tweeter : 5kHz - 20kHz
- Midrange : 300Hz - 5kHz
- Sub : 20Hz - 300Hz
I have attached the values of the components for the filter.
I intend to post my progress on this new project, here.
Because I have very limited budget and time, I will have to distribute the building phase over at least 6 months...
I'm new to this forum and I have a new speaker project !
A few words about myself. I live in Paris, France. I'm 30, married and a child.
I'm an engineer and I like: creating stuff and listening to music...
This is what brought me to DIY audio.
Two years ago, I completed my first speaker project, with which I'm not really satisfied today... I want to start something better. It is a two-way speaker based on 2 Monacor SPH-176 woofers and a 1 Monacor DT-254 tweeter. I have a Sherwood PM-9805 Vinyle, Yamaha A-S700 and Cambridge Audio A500.
There are several problems with my current setup:
- Sound is too directional and doesn't fill the room, specially the high frequencies which are too close to the ground level. I need to sit down in the direction of the speaker to hear them loud.
- It sounds like the sound is lacking mid-range. The bass are blurry and the tweeter is ok but the mid-range is absent. The spectrum doesn't sound linear.
- Not enough power
- Don't look good
So, now I would like to have a 3-way speaker and to make it more fun, I decided to use only French loudspeakers. This is why I named my project "The French Touch":
- 1 tweeter: Audax TW025A28, 8 Ohms, 94dB, 70 WRMS
- 1 midrange: Davis Acoustics 16GKLV6M, 6.5", 8 Ohms, 95dB, 130 WRMS
- 1 sub: Atohm D300P04, 12", 4 Ohms, 91dB, 200W RMS
I have attached the plan of the speaker. Sorry for the metric system...
I would like to add two shelfs at the bottom of the speaker, in order for the tweeter to be higher to the ceiling. I don't know if it's a good idea. It doesn't look good... In any case I need an idea to put my speakers higher than just putting them on the floor.
I intend to use a first order passive filter with the following layout:
- Tweeter : 5kHz - 20kHz
- Midrange : 300Hz - 5kHz
- Sub : 20Hz - 300Hz
I have attached the values of the components for the filter.
I intend to post my progress on this new project, here.
Because I have very limited budget and time, I will have to distribute the building phase over at least 6 months...
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