What is the DIY speaker you consider “best” and why?

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Hi,

I’ve a limited experience in building my own speakers, and by now the best speakers I’ve built are by far the Silbury with MA10.3.

What is the DIY speaker that you have built, designed or heard that is the best for you?

Please explain also why you consider it “best”.

I consider Silbury with MA10.3 superior to FHXL with MA11MS because of the detail and extension they have, but still the FHXL is a very very good speaker and extremely easy to build.

Thanks in advance to everyone.
Roberto
 
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I have done a few and always comes back to Accuton drivers. They don’t “stand in the way” for whatever you put in front of them😊
 
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zintolo said:
Hi,

I’ve a limited experience in building my own speakers, and by now the best speakers I’ve built are by far the Silbury with MA10.3.

What is the DIY speaker that you have built, designed or heard that is the best for you?

Please explain also why you consider it “best”.

I consider Silbury with MA10.3 superior to FHXL with MA11MS because of the detail and extension they have, but still the FHXL is a very very good speaker and extremely easy to build.

Thanks in advance to everyone.
Roberto
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My tower speaker using the Markaudio chn110 with bass port has forced me to revalue every thing I have learned before. Crossovers are VERY bad for soundquality, both passive and active.

I sold my Genelec SAM monitors and Im not going to build another 3 way active crossover speaker with expensive drivers. No two or three way speaker sound as good as the one I have now.
 
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Both in the photo gallery:

PrimeRadiant Axia (single ceramic tweet; multi-tweets still in progress). 2-way but minimalist with "single-driver characteristics" such as point-source coherence.

Stacked micor55 LX. Two complementary fullrange drivers straight-through XO-less perfect on-axis frequency response down to low 40s. (Not LX cardioid OB top.)
 
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Only half of a speaker . Better Lowther ( Dx4 and up although dx3 is not so bad either - no fostex under any circumstances ) in big front horn .
Maybe ( questionable) some sort of open baffle and sympathetic winds .
You can safely forget any diy and semi diy effort in traditional monkey coffin speakers all the Troels and Bagby wannabes beating pros in their own game on the budget. It's just a delusion of a hobbyists but a nice hobby in itself.
 
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The best DIY speaker I heard to date is "The Loudspeaker 2" from Troels Gravesen.

I have built the following speakers:
Amish (ScanSpeak) Troels
Sp95 (scan speak) Troels
Ellam flex (scan speak)Troels
Cno mk2 (seas) Troels
Cno 2.5 (seas) Troels
Cno4 (seas) Troels
Next4 (seas) Troels
Bifrost (seas)
TL2 (PA drivers) Troels

Currently building:
AtiRi (audio technology+Faital) Troels

I also heard huge amount of commercial speakers, from all the audio spectrum.

TL2 is one of the best speakers regardless of price. You can make it better by giving it a better source better amplifier, it will reveal it effortlessly and will never be the weakest link in the system. Many speakers I had said very clearly, "I come this far and now no more" Not so with the TL2.
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limono said:
Only half of a speaker . Better Lowther ( Dx4 and up although dx3 is not so bad either - no fostex under any circumstances ) in big front horn .
Maybe ( questionable) some sort of open baffle and sympathetic winds .
You can safely forget any diy and semi diy effort in traditional monkey coffin speakers all the Troels and Bagby wannabes beating pros in their own game on the budget. It's just a delusion of a hobbyists but a nice hobby in itself.
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Could you describe the (minimum) "big front horn" please? Thanks.

I have Fidelio PM2A (ticonal), homeless PM6A, and (stored in the US) DX3. I double-notched the 15ohm Al PM6A to flatness above 2khz but horn/waveguide ought to help below that.

Notes on PM6A, F200A, W300Aii, FE108eΣ, and my Supravox TLonken.
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Post in thread 'Supravox 8" TLonken... while city of 22M laid flat'

Belated drawing of the thread-title TLonken, 17L 1.5m-line converted from a very inexpensive but solidly-built (18mm MDF), ready-made labyrinth cabinet. Measurements are inexact and certainly non-optimal. The TLonken has served as a testing platform for "high-powered" (low Qts) 8-inch fullrange drivers including: Supravox, Lowther PM6A, Isred/MKHIFI drum-paper, and Fostex F200A....

During the Chinese New Year holiday I was "idle-fishing" and saw bargain-priced F200A and W300Aii, both models of course NLA/rarely show up/usually very expensive. Turned out to have suffered damage but still...
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