Building a large 3 Way enclosure
Requirement: 3 way speaker active/passive speaker compared against my benchmark reference 4 way active system which scored a perfect 10 with listeners.
Subjective requirement: A speaker which could emotionally move the listener, as several people who auditioned the 4 way speakers did say they could feel the music and raise emotion levels.
Here is the picture of the 4 way speaker system running active with 8 channels of amplifiers, using two 4 way active crossovers crossed at 140hz, 450hz, and 3.3khz. There are separate enclosures for the sub woofers and the rest of the 3 way. The subwoofers are 4* 8 inches ported with the port tuned at 26hz, and are generally capable of shaking the floor and can quite easily reproduce the deepest growl in movies which you can feel. The rest of the 3 speakers cover the spectrum from 140hz-20khz with a fairly flat line. The crossovers are entry level analogue, and I generally need to reduce the slope of the mid/tweeter for old songs, and with minor adjustments they sound fantastic across all genres of music. So once these speakers were made after several months of fine tuning the enclosures and matching the speakers, this quickly became the benchmark. So I have been trying for the past several months to build a slightly smaller version with a higher family acceptance factor which one might be happy to install in the living room or a dedicated listening room, but which would come close to the quality of these benchmark speakers. I will perhaps open another thread posting pictures and specifications or maybe post it later in this one, but this thread is about the 3 way speakers.
So here goes.
Requirement: 3 way speaker active/passive speaker compared against my benchmark reference 4 way active system which scored a perfect 10 with listeners.
Subjective requirement: A speaker which could emotionally move the listener, as several people who auditioned the 4 way speakers did say they could feel the music and raise emotion levels.
Here is the picture of the 4 way speaker system running active with 8 channels of amplifiers, using two 4 way active crossovers crossed at 140hz, 450hz, and 3.3khz. There are separate enclosures for the sub woofers and the rest of the 3 way. The subwoofers are 4* 8 inches ported with the port tuned at 26hz, and are generally capable of shaking the floor and can quite easily reproduce the deepest growl in movies which you can feel. The rest of the 3 speakers cover the spectrum from 140hz-20khz with a fairly flat line. The crossovers are entry level analogue, and I generally need to reduce the slope of the mid/tweeter for old songs, and with minor adjustments they sound fantastic across all genres of music. So once these speakers were made after several months of fine tuning the enclosures and matching the speakers, this quickly became the benchmark. So I have been trying for the past several months to build a slightly smaller version with a higher family acceptance factor which one might be happy to install in the living room or a dedicated listening room, but which would come close to the quality of these benchmark speakers. I will perhaps open another thread posting pictures and specifications or maybe post it later in this one, but this thread is about the 3 way speakers.
So here goes.

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