After a long hiatus of DIY speaker research, I once again have a job and can consider building a decent set of speakers to ditch these horrible KLH speakers I have.
I'm going for a two-way design, either TM or TMM, depending on what drivers I end up with. Either way, for the M, I want to use a Peerless 830883, which Speaker City told me they'd have in within a week or two.
For the tweeter, I was thinking XT25 or Hiquphon, but I'm worried about the power they can take. I play things LOUD, and the louder I want it, the higher I have to cross the mid, but it's hard to go very high with 830883. I know I can get a mid that goes higher, but price is somewhat of a concern.
Another thing is that I'm EXTREMELY sensitive to even the SLIGHTEST brightness in a speaker. Even a little brightness is PAINFUL to me. I have yet to hear a metal tweeter I like, though I'm not well-versed in different speaker brands to know for sure I'd dislike ALL of them.
Any suggestions? Price preferably < $100/driver, can go a little over if need be
Can I do Hiquphon OWI-fs (ferrofluid) and cross at like 2.8kHz or so second-order? If so, where can I order that? Zalytron doesn't seem to have it.
Oh, and this will be for both music (pretty much everything but rap) and HT about 60 music / 40 HT
I'm going for a two-way design, either TM or TMM, depending on what drivers I end up with. Either way, for the M, I want to use a Peerless 830883, which Speaker City told me they'd have in within a week or two.
For the tweeter, I was thinking XT25 or Hiquphon, but I'm worried about the power they can take. I play things LOUD, and the louder I want it, the higher I have to cross the mid, but it's hard to go very high with 830883. I know I can get a mid that goes higher, but price is somewhat of a concern.
Another thing is that I'm EXTREMELY sensitive to even the SLIGHTEST brightness in a speaker. Even a little brightness is PAINFUL to me. I have yet to hear a metal tweeter I like, though I'm not well-versed in different speaker brands to know for sure I'd dislike ALL of them.
Any suggestions? Price preferably < $100/driver, can go a little over if need be
Can I do Hiquphon OWI-fs (ferrofluid) and cross at like 2.8kHz or so second-order? If so, where can I order that? Zalytron doesn't seem to have it.
Oh, and this will be for both music (pretty much everything but rap) and HT about 60 music / 40 HT
http://www.zaphaudio.com/tweetermishmash/
rather than "going-it-alone" you might consider his 2-way..
http://www.zaphaudio.com/audio-speaker17.html
rather than "going-it-alone" you might consider his 2-way..
http://www.zaphaudio.com/audio-speaker17.html
Use the Dayton RS 28, or if you really are that scared of a metal tweeter, Seas 27TDFC. Both can crossover low and are considered best in price class.
I'm using a Vifa DX something or other. It was only like $30 per tweeter at parts express and is a textile dome tweeter. It plays pretty loud... 92db efficient and 140watts RMS. I've got mine crossed at 2khz and it works nicely. Pretty smooth sounding.
Oh, also, I'm looking for something as detailed/revealing as possible for a decent price (without being bright, as I mentioned before). Are the ones you guys mentioned pretty good in that area? I'll take a look at them in the afternoon, need to get to bed now.
Thanks for the suggestions
Thanks for the suggestions
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