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Do you feel excited having tall DIY speakers than commercially made ones? [message #99708]

Tue, 18 August 2026 23:10

Hank
Messages: 56
Registered: December 2025

Baron

I don't know if we are many, but I always get genuinely excited by tall DIY speakers. In fact, I will pay for such speakers without hesitation than going for the shiny company made speakers. I don't enjoy having short speaker, earbuds and all of those tiny sound gears... I go for the tall ones.

One of the reasons that I like those DIY tall speakers is that it feel personal since people who make it at their shops must be passionate audiophile who know what a good speaker should look like.

Have you had the experience of having a pair of tall DIY speakers that made you believe they are better than the commercial ones? What was unique about that made it fall in love with the pairs? Or do you always buy commercially made ones?

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Re: Do you feel excited having tall DIY speakers than commercially made ones? [message #99709 is a reply to message #99708]

Wed, 19 August 2026 16:53

Rusty
Messages: 1456
Registered: May 2018
Location: Kansas City Missouri

Illuminati (3rd Degree)

I helped a friend build a pair of 2Pi Towers a couple of years back. They're tower speakers, with high sensitivity drivers. The build is a rectangular box and a rear port without a tube. Just the thickness of the mdf used for their construction. A very simple crossover. And they sound dynamite. My friend had been using a pair of Technics 2 way budget bookshelf speakers he'd had since a teenager. The transition to these was staggering.
I'd built a pair of Pi horn loaded bass reflex speakers years before that are BIG and sound BIG. I use tube and solid state amps with it. High sensitivity speakers have quenched my desire for fidelity.

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