Recent content by Smitty

For your viewing pleasure, a video of wiring up the three drivers to the three crossover modules and then tying in the three crossover modules to the cable between the loudspeaker and the amplifier. It's a long one but has chapters. It contains plenty of soldering and some surprising drilling...

It took me about two hours to cut the four facets. At first it was slower because I tried some different things. Chiseling from the top and using wood files did not work so well for me. A rasp worked fairly well but it tends to end up with a slightly rounded facet. Maybe that is due to my lack...

A longer video for the long weekend. Using hand tools to cut the facets.

Thanks for the feedback. I have the next video about cutting the facets on the face of the loud speakers filmed and edited. I think it is more interesting than this very short one although it was also edited with a heavy hand. More than two hours of raw footage became eight and half minutes. 😅

A very short video on some finishing (taping, sanding, and chiselling) work on the cabinets after the final panel was glued on.

Short video on gluing on the last panel of the speaker cabinets:

Final assembly of the crossover boards:

I got them from Ian but I think I was his last customer for caps.

Assembling and soldering the most complicated section of the crossover for the tweeter:

Taking the crossover from paper plans to optimised physical layout of the mid and woofer sections of the crossover:

Crossover plan reading, discussion and making up custom capacitor values: As always, feedback is welcome and is used to improve future videos.

Looking really good. Makes me think that I should edit and upload another video or two 😅

Sound damping video for the rainy weather:

Have you watched the Tech Ingredients videos on DML / flat panel speakers? IIRC they have built and tested a lot of what you are thinking about, for example, size, material, exciter placement, ways of suspending the panels.

To help ease the load-shedding blues here is the video for the bass port. It includes calculating the target frequency from the original dimensions and then calculating the new length for the diameter of the tube that was procured. Then we cut and fit the port.