DIY Speakers

DIY speakers are a great way for saving lots of money. You can make speakers for your home theatre or audio system by having instructions and full guide from different sources such as magazines and internet. DIY speakers can be designed according to the requirements and available space. Do-It-Yourself kits are designed for incredible sound and fast assembly. DIY speaker kits normally include all drivers, assembled crossovers, damping materials and input cups with binding posts, wire, screws, and solder. Cabinets are optional. Kits are available in singles or pairs. They come with complete instructions and can be assembled in an afternoon with a soldering iron, drill and a phillips screw driver. If you have your do-it-yourself home theater speakers hooked up--but that's just the beginning. You'll need to customize your speaker levels to match the acoustics of your room.



A simple calibration session can give you a better-sounding home theater in less than 15 minutes. For some, the passion for music can go to "extremes." However, what is extreme to one music lover seems sensible to another. To those who enjoy movies, an entire room (not to mention the cost), can be devoted to have the " theater experience" at home. To the music lover, the DIY electrostatic loudspeaker is the best and most cost effective way to have the "concert experience" at home. I do hope some out there will find it interesting to read about DIY speaker project. The drivers and the crossover are all well known for most speaker builders, but I think I can contribute with some new «design» solutions (or perhaps I should say ideas) on building cabinets, and use of cabinet materials. In building speaker cabinets, there are two main schools (correct me if I am wrong). Either you can build a speaker cabinet as rigid as you can (risking to get a high resonance frequency in your cabinet), or you can build a speaker cabinet not so rigid and fill it up with some kind of resonance killing material (to prevent low resonance frequency in the cabinet). DIY crossover units in speakers have always seemed to be a very poor way to go about the task of separating drive to the two or more drivers. Building DIY electronic crossovers is a doddle but then you need all those extra pesky amplifiers - OK for stereo but not for an eight channel system. The transmission line speaker system (TLS), which is a kind of the enclosure type, seems to be popular recently and increases rapidly.

You can find instructional guide for DIY transmission line speakers from several online sources and magazines.