After heaving built a few pairs of more audiophile like speakers it's time for me to built something with a bit more oomph. A want to built a pair of compact floor standing speakers with built in subwoofers. For the subs i will be using the TangBand W5-1138SMF. I like the neodymium version a bit more but those are hard to find in Europe and are very expensive. For the mids and highs i will be using a full range driver to keep things simple. At the moment i think i will be using the Tang Band W3-926SDF but i haven't completely decided on that one.
For the enclosure i want to built something i'm addicted to for quite a wile now, a transmission line. After a bit of modeling in Hornresp i came up with a pretty good looking response. Yes, it could be a bit flatter but it's not too bad. I can always change it later on.
After spending a bit of time in Sketchup i came up with a pretty awesome looking enclosure to my taste. I did have some clearance issues with that big ferrite magnet. A double stacked baffle was used to solve those issues. I also had to find a way to incorporate the fullrange driver into the enclosure. In the end i came up with a small closed box of around 1liter. I would have liked it to be a bit bigger but there wasn't much I could do about it without making the box look ridiculous.
Because of the small closed box i might have to cross the drivers a bit higher than i originally anticipated. I could possibly use a bit of the natural roll off from the full range driver though. This speaker won't be very efficient but I don't really mind that, my amps has way more than enough guts to power a pair of these.
The only thing i'm not to sure of is the crossover because i haven't crossed drivers this low before (around 150 - 200Hz). I certainly do need an l-pad for the full range driver but do I also need a baffle step compensation cicuit? For the rest i would like to keep things simple, just a two-way 2nd order crossover. Any suggestions would be helpfull.
For the enclosure i want to built something i'm addicted to for quite a wile now, a transmission line. After a bit of modeling in Hornresp i came up with a pretty good looking response. Yes, it could be a bit flatter but it's not too bad. I can always change it later on.
After spending a bit of time in Sketchup i came up with a pretty awesome looking enclosure to my taste. I did have some clearance issues with that big ferrite magnet. A double stacked baffle was used to solve those issues. I also had to find a way to incorporate the fullrange driver into the enclosure. In the end i came up with a small closed box of around 1liter. I would have liked it to be a bit bigger but there wasn't much I could do about it without making the box look ridiculous.
Because of the small closed box i might have to cross the drivers a bit higher than i originally anticipated. I could possibly use a bit of the natural roll off from the full range driver though. This speaker won't be very efficient but I don't really mind that, my amps has way more than enough guts to power a pair of these.
The only thing i'm not to sure of is the crossover because i haven't crossed drivers this low before (around 150 - 200Hz). I certainly do need an l-pad for the full range driver but do I also need a baffle step compensation cicuit? For the rest i would like to keep things simple, just a two-way 2nd order crossover. Any suggestions would be helpfull.