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?
Rusty Messages: 1457 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.
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.
They look stunning. Perfectly positioned and matches the wall color.
How much did you spend in total in assembling everything when you did a few years ago? Can you remember?
Rusty Messages: 1457 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
Illuminati (3rd Degree)
Well I do know it would be more expensive now. But I seem to remember maybe 4 or 5 hundred for parts and material. It's probably been close to 20 years or so. Wayne discontinued the Theater 4 Pi's some time ago. It uses an Eminence Delta 15" woofer and Eminence compression tweeter and horn. Smooth and dynamic. Just what I crave. I used to blow the grills off the woofers from enthusiastic levels. They're just press fit in the recess. I don't indulge that so much these days.
The tower 2 Pi's might have been around 3 hundred or so for parts and materials. Really a bargain I'd imagine to many commercial speakers that would cost several times more. We used solid Ash wood stock over the MDF 1/4 top, sides and part of the baffle. WIth some 3/8 and 1/2 to create my version of an Art Deco style.
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