Hi everyone, long-time lurker, first-time poster here.
I've started getting my feet wet in DIY and am looking to take on my next project.
I built an active C-Note based pair of speakers in gloss-white for the living room and an RPi + Tone DAC streamer using Plexamp and Plex to manage the library.
My main system (currently) is a '75 Luxman L100u fully refurbished driving Dynaudio Contour 1.3 mkII speakers.
I just sold a pair of Klipsch KG4's with upgraded tweeters (Crites Ti) and a refurbished/rebuilt crossover (that I did).
I saw a handful of great reviews around the new Dynaudio Heritage speakers and began lusting after them, but the price was simply a deal killer. This led me down the path of looking at DIY builds for an upgraded speaker to replace my current Dyns with. I play mainly classic rock and electric blues with a sprinkling of Bluegrass and bebop when the occasion (or the bourbon and hour) calls for it. Mid-sized man cave where I generally am just entertaining myself.
I am not un-handy, but definitely not an artist and do not have the equipment for a full-on build, so I've been gravitating towards flatpacks and pre-engineered kits. I was looking pretty closely at the GR-research stuff (sans cable and power cords) and love the CNC flatpacks that they are offering for the X-LS and X-static models.
I am looking for great clarity and a neutral speaker (the Luxman adds just the right amount of warmth for me, and I'm also eventually planning to build the amp and preamp tube kits offered by Elekit). I'm open to bookshelf or floorstanders and am intrigued by horns and open baffle designs, but this build needs to be something manageable in both its scope, cost and footprint.
I'd love to hear some thoughts on how the GR-R's would compare against the Dyns and if there are other full kits that I should look at. Ideally I'm budgeting somwhere in the neighborhood of $1K to $1.5K but I always accomodate for scope-creep!
Thanks in advance - I love the great info on this forum and am closely following a number of the other project threads as well!
Peter
I've started getting my feet wet in DIY and am looking to take on my next project.
I built an active C-Note based pair of speakers in gloss-white for the living room and an RPi + Tone DAC streamer using Plexamp and Plex to manage the library.
My main system (currently) is a '75 Luxman L100u fully refurbished driving Dynaudio Contour 1.3 mkII speakers.
I just sold a pair of Klipsch KG4's with upgraded tweeters (Crites Ti) and a refurbished/rebuilt crossover (that I did).
I saw a handful of great reviews around the new Dynaudio Heritage speakers and began lusting after them, but the price was simply a deal killer. This led me down the path of looking at DIY builds for an upgraded speaker to replace my current Dyns with. I play mainly classic rock and electric blues with a sprinkling of Bluegrass and bebop when the occasion (or the bourbon and hour) calls for it. Mid-sized man cave where I generally am just entertaining myself.
I am not un-handy, but definitely not an artist and do not have the equipment for a full-on build, so I've been gravitating towards flatpacks and pre-engineered kits. I was looking pretty closely at the GR-research stuff (sans cable and power cords) and love the CNC flatpacks that they are offering for the X-LS and X-static models.
I am looking for great clarity and a neutral speaker (the Luxman adds just the right amount of warmth for me, and I'm also eventually planning to build the amp and preamp tube kits offered by Elekit). I'm open to bookshelf or floorstanders and am intrigued by horns and open baffle designs, but this build needs to be something manageable in both its scope, cost and footprint.
I'd love to hear some thoughts on how the GR-R's would compare against the Dyns and if there are other full kits that I should look at. Ideally I'm budgeting somwhere in the neighborhood of $1K to $1.5K but I always accomodate for scope-creep!
Thanks in advance - I love the great info on this forum and am closely following a number of the other project threads as well!
Peter
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