Speaker building

[sebr023]

Can’t remember the name of the channel at the moment, but there a woodworking guy that got into audio and build a listening room and speakers. He tested mdf vs birch plywood and others (IIRC) and didn’t have much difference between material.

And you can always test the enclosure, measure it, and make adjustment in your component/ crossover design to make it sound optimal for the material you choose.

Now we have active dsp which is even easier to make a speaker sound good because you can change its curves in real time.

I had the chance to listen to the Solen Mura 5b. The store is a short diatance from ma house. And the guy that designed it is pretty cool. The small-ish speaker that packs a punch. From my ears, at say they’re about 80%-85% as good as my CSS audio criton 1td and 2td. On for home theater uses, it’ll be good enough.

Attached picture of said 1td and 2 td’s

 

[peter halle]

@sebr023 I hope you wear hearing protection in the shop. It would be a shame for you and those like you who really appreciate music to have that unnecessarily impaired in the future.

Peter

 

[tjbnwi]

My “top shelf” Radio Shack speakers (which I still have and are pretty good, but not really excellent) we’re purchased circa 1975. They are pretty (real walnut veneer) over 5/8” particleboard.

I don’t know how particleboard compares to MDF acoustically, but cost-wise, not a huge difference. So I guess particleboard was used interchangeably.

Physically, big speakers.

My 25 year old Tivoli Audio radio has remarkably nice sound out of an appropriately 4” speaker and a 5” x 10” x 8” box. Those are appropriate dimensions and I will update when I locate the radio.

That radio is the reason I think acoustic engineering plays a big role in how a speaker sounds. A radio that small should not sound that good.

Addendum:

Still in production, and smaller than I remembered. Updated dimensions: 4.5 x 8.375 x 5.25 in

And apparently they have added blue tooth, which mine does not have.

Model One BT

Imagine the ideal radio.With a tuner that brings clarity to many of the weakest stations and Bluetooth, the Model One radio begins with a handmade wood cabinet that is both beautiful and the ideal acoustically inert housing. With just three knobs, it is the antithesis of today’s ever more...

tivoliaudio.com

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I have the Music Hall model, they do sound great.

 

[Packard]

On a somewhat related subject, I have seen music practice rooms constructed on TV shows and they are built with sound absorbing materials. That approach is 100% wrong. If anyone is planning on making a music practice room, or needs a separate quiet space, they should start a thread and explain.