Agreed.
I feel like I've been building bigger versions of the Hyperion for some time.....larger Synergy horns sitting on top of double 18" PPSL subs.
The Hyperion's smaller and all-in-one form factor, could be very appealing for a normal audio room.
At this point of information, it does kinda look to me like the Hyperion really isn't anything all that new...other than an in-home Synergy/sub optimization.
And one that's gone active...but that's nothing new technology wise.
Many of us have had great success tuning our DIY synergies with dsp.
It's just new in a DSL released product sense, it seems.
Bottom line: Looks totally DIYable to me 😀
Hi Soldermizer,
About 4 years ago, you looked at the possibility of building the bookshelf point source horn. Did you ever get anywhere with that? It’s still a viable and cost effective option. Starting with a commercially available plastic waveguide and adding your own woofer and mid-tweet works well. It lets the mid bass work up to about 600Hz and the mid tweet works like a high sensitivity FAST speaker on up.
About 4 years ago, you looked at the possibility of building the bookshelf point source horn. Did you ever get anywhere with that? It’s still a viable and cost effective option. Starting with a commercially available plastic waveguide and adding your own woofer and mid-tweet works well. It lets the mid bass work up to about 600Hz and the mid tweet works like a high sensitivity FAST speaker on up.
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Hi XRK,
No, I gave up too easily. The closest I got was a few DIY horns made of elastic fabric hardened with Gorilla Glue rather than fiberglass. I used a BMS 5" coax for the "synergy". To be honest, I've never built a serious speaker, although my 2' cube plywood boxes for 15" Alpine car woofers have held up well for several years and look as ghastly as when they were new 🙄
As I've often "complained" in other threads, around 2015 I had the "awful" luck to buy a pair of Yorkville Unity U15 about $800 delivered. They got some minor tweaking, gutted the busted x-overs, and run active. I've been happy since, save for occasional re-EQ. While not a true Synergy, they are probably 95% of what a real Synergy is. In any case, I'm realistic enough to know that I would stand no chance of bettering the U15 with any DIY effort of my own. I conjecture that, if active EQ is allowed, it'd be a tall order for a DIY build to best it. But you guys are welcome to try! Amateurs like me will sit back and applaud your efforts. 🙂
My speaker perpetration days may not be over, but they have definitely been inactive since 2015.
Great news on the Danley Hyperion. Well into the five figures, I'd guess. I wish Danley success of course. If I were starting from zero, I'd probably still go with one of the more modest speakers described earlier. I'd guess the Go2 or the SM60 for modest home use.
My latest audio turmoil was that my "media center", the amazingly cheap Pipo X9, died after about 4-5 years of good service. Fortunately I have an ancient wheezing Dell Latitude (I fondly call it "Lassitude" for its pokey Atom processor) that stood in so I could play tunes while the new Pipo (this one an X9S) was ordered. The new one is "defective" -- the touch screen is unresponsive -- but I'll probably keep it since it's normally used with a wireless keyboard and mouse, and everything else works fine. For $190 for 4 GB RAM 64 GB "hard drive" and 64-bit processor, I guess I can't complain. I didn't mean for this to be a Pipo testimonial, but they do make a line of interesting media box and other PCs, win or linux. As 2 of 3 models I've received had serious defects, I can't say much for their quality control, however.
Hi XRK,
No, I gave up too easily. The closest I got was a few DIY horns made of elastic fabric hardened with Gorilla Glue rather than fiberglass. I used a BMS 5" coax for the "synergy". To be honest, I've never built a serious speaker, although my 2' cube plywood boxes for 15" Alpine car woofers have held up well for several years and look as ghastly as when they were new 🙄
As I've often "complained" in other threads, around 2015 I had the "awful" luck to buy a pair of Yorkville Unity U15 about $800 delivered. They got some minor tweaking, gutted the busted x-overs, and run active. I've been happy since, save for occasional re-EQ. While not a true Synergy, they are probably 95% of what a real Synergy is. In any case, I'm realistic enough to know that I would stand no chance of bettering the U15 with any DIY effort of my own. I conjecture that, if active EQ is allowed, it'd be a tall order for a DIY build to best it. But you guys are welcome to try! Amateurs like me will sit back and applaud your efforts. 🙂
My speaker perpetration days may not be over, but they have definitely been inactive since 2015.
Great news on the Danley Hyperion. Well into the five figures, I'd guess. I wish Danley success of course. If I were starting from zero, I'd probably still go with one of the more modest speakers described earlier. I'd guess the Go2 or the SM60 for modest home use.
My latest audio turmoil was that my "media center", the amazingly cheap Pipo X9, died after about 4-5 years of good service. Fortunately I have an ancient wheezing Dell Latitude (I fondly call it "Lassitude" for its pokey Atom processor) that stood in so I could play tunes while the new Pipo (this one an X9S) was ordered. The new one is "defective" -- the touch screen is unresponsive -- but I'll probably keep it since it's normally used with a wireless keyboard and mouse, and everything else works fine. For $190 for 4 GB RAM 64 GB "hard drive" and 64-bit processor, I guess I can't complain. I didn't mean for this to be a Pipo testimonial, but they do make a line of interesting media box and other PCs, win or linux. As 2 of 3 models I've received had serious defects, I can't say much for their quality control, however.
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