Dunder XIII
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I'd like to build my own studio monitors for fun and profit (well, maybe not profit lol). Is there any good reference on the Web or some good books about it?
Thanks
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Building Studio Monitors
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SPINSTERWUN
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There is a member of HR.COM that builds reference monitors.
Try doing a search on this topic.
Try doing a search on this topic.
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SPINSTERWUN
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SPINSTERWUN
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The members name is....
barefoot
Try posting a question to him.
barefoot
Try posting a question to him.
Dunder XIII
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Thanks ;-) I'm doing this in conjunction with an electrical engineer (which will become my brother in law next friday har har). He knows how to build monitors, but I don't and I look stupid 
Anyway I'll let you know how this turns out.
Anyway I'll let you know how this turns out.
SPINSTERWUN
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Cool.
barefoot
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DX3,
The two books I, and many others, most highly recommend for someone starting out are "The Loudspeaker Design Cookbook" by Vance Dickason and "Testing Loudspeakers" by Joseph D'Appolito. You can order them directly from the publisher here. http://www.audioxpress.com/bksprods/bookindexl.htm.
Online, True Audio has some good reference information http://www.trueaudio.com/index.htm and the LDSG Index http://www.snippets.org/ldsg/idx.php3 is great for giving you a feel for the pro's and con's of different driver models, materials, and designs.
The major retail suppliers in the US for studio monitor type components are Madisound http://www.madisound.com , Speaker City http://www.speakercity.com , and Zalytron http://www.zalytron.com .
And don't be intimidated by your soon to be brother in law. EE's may know a lot about filter design and such, but they often know jack sh*t about acoustics, mechanics and material science. Study these recourses carefully and maybe you'll teach him a thing or two.
Hope this helps.
barefoot
PS - Notice the slight distain in my comments about EE's? Those of us studying in the physics department learned the unwritten custom that engineering students are to be held as a slightly lower life form. Most of us eat our words because we usually wind up finding jobs with "Engineer" in the titles. Like me.
The two books I, and many others, most highly recommend for someone starting out are "The Loudspeaker Design Cookbook" by Vance Dickason and "Testing Loudspeakers" by Joseph D'Appolito. You can order them directly from the publisher here. http://www.audioxpress.com/bksprods/bookindexl.htm.
Online, True Audio has some good reference information http://www.trueaudio.com/index.htm and the LDSG Index http://www.snippets.org/ldsg/idx.php3 is great for giving you a feel for the pro's and con's of different driver models, materials, and designs.
The major retail suppliers in the US for studio monitor type components are Madisound http://www.madisound.com , Speaker City http://www.speakercity.com , and Zalytron http://www.zalytron.com .
And don't be intimidated by your soon to be brother in law. EE's may know a lot about filter design and such, but they often know jack sh*t about acoustics, mechanics and material science. Study these recourses carefully and maybe you'll teach him a thing or two.
Hope this helps.
barefoot
PS - Notice the slight distain in my comments about EE's? Those of us studying in the physics department learned the unwritten custom that engineering students are to be held as a slightly lower life form. Most of us eat our words because we usually wind up finding jobs with "Engineer" in the titles. Like me.