mightycicadalord
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Started a new project, one that I wanted to design myself from start to finish. I have made many kits but this time I wanted to do it all myself as I didn't really learn much from them aside from woodworking skills. I wanted to document the build here and start a hub for the many questions I have, rather than PMing a bunch of folks.
I am going to attempt to utilize as many parts I have around for this, and meet a few goals. So far I have the cabinets made, I'm sure you can see where inspiration came from. Driver recesses are made but I may decide on different drivers as time goes by, I attempted to keep the recesses within 1-2mm of other driver choices. I speculate the tweeter may be changed, the recess should accommodate many options but a faceplate will be 3D printed if need be.
At my current stage I am attempting to develop a passive crossover for the speakers, and I plan to load the cabinets to generate some FRD and ZMA files to load into VCad. I tried a round today but think I kinda borked it so tomorrow may yield better results. I did land on a good amount of stuffing I can recreate for both chambers that has the BMR driver measuring and sonding very, very nice. I'm learning a ton at this stage, mostly that you should gather as much possible information about the speaker before attempting to start a sim of the components. This is probably the biggest challenge and if I can't quite reach the results I want, I will simply go digital and control these with DSP + Amps. Any help there is much appreciated.
Nicest cabinets I've made so far, I plan on veneering them but they came out so nice I might not.
Fancy shot of the BMR driver. I toyed around with them before building and I immediately felt there was something special about the midrange coming from them. Even just one in mono yields some interesting spatial qualities.
These were tough to route, but I think I nailed it. Pretty good with a router if I do say so myself. It's so snug I have to use a little tool to wiggle the drivers out, perfect
I am going to attempt to utilize as many parts I have around for this, and meet a few goals. So far I have the cabinets made, I'm sure you can see where inspiration came from. Driver recesses are made but I may decide on different drivers as time goes by, I attempted to keep the recesses within 1-2mm of other driver choices. I speculate the tweeter may be changed, the recess should accommodate many options but a faceplate will be 3D printed if need be.
At my current stage I am attempting to develop a passive crossover for the speakers, and I plan to load the cabinets to generate some FRD and ZMA files to load into VCad. I tried a round today but think I kinda borked it so tomorrow may yield better results. I did land on a good amount of stuffing I can recreate for both chambers that has the BMR driver measuring and sonding very, very nice. I'm learning a ton at this stage, mostly that you should gather as much possible information about the speaker before attempting to start a sim of the components. This is probably the biggest challenge and if I can't quite reach the results I want, I will simply go digital and control these with DSP + Amps. Any help there is much appreciated.
Nicest cabinets I've made so far, I plan on veneering them but they came out so nice I might not.
Fancy shot of the BMR driver. I toyed around with them before building and I immediately felt there was something special about the midrange coming from them. Even just one in mono yields some interesting spatial qualities.
These were tough to route, but I think I nailed it. Pretty good with a router if I do say so myself. It's so snug I have to use a little tool to wiggle the drivers out, perfect