Any home-made studio monitors?

[studiomaster]

I am really looking forward into making/building my own pair of studio monitors. I have seen the parts required from www.partsexpress.com. the prices are very cheap..atleast for what i need. so far im purchasing the following: 2 woofers, 2 tweeters and a crossover. do i need anything more than that?

i have seen lots of people making their own crossovers but i dont see any point because on the site you can buy a fully-built crossover for $16. so please guide me through this.

 

[mshilarious]

I am really looking forward into making/building my own pair of studio monitors. I have seen the parts required from www.partsexpress.com. the prices are very cheap..atleast for what i need. so far im purchasing the following: 2 woofers, 2 tweeters and a crossover. do i need anything more than that?

Cabinets, speaker gasketing tape, maybe a port, speaker terminals, stuffing. Their router jig is nice to have. Also you need two crossovers.

i have seen lots of people making their own crossovers but i dont see any point because on the site you can buy a fully-built crossover for $16. so please guide me through this.

You can tweak 'em a bit more if you build them yourself. For example you can set an L-pad, add a zobel filter, pick your own slope . . .

 

[gecko zzed]

I used to build my own speakers from components, and had a variety of successes and failures by experimenting with designs.

One time I had some parts laying around from assorted projects, enough to build a pair of speakers. Through some strange fortuitous alignment of planets, the dimensions of the box and the characteristics of the drivers together produced a very solid, sweet-sounding result. I ended up making several pairs of these which are scattered about in various people's homes.

However, the twin evils of laziness and cheapness have afflicted me in recent years, and I can't find the enthusiasm for messing around in glue and sawdust now that buying stuff off the shelf has become more affordable.

 

[Robert D]

I've built home speakers, but there's a lot more engineering involved in building proper monitors. Not that it can't be done, but if they're going to be accurate you can't just wing it. Sorry if I'm stating the obvious.

 

[ds21]

I build and mix with my own Monitors, but like was stated before "you just can't wing it". unless your buying a kit I wouldn't start out trying to make your own from raw untested components, the make or break part of any speaker is the crossover and any old prebuilt one won't do. I see one kit that might be worth doing on PE, they have a FR of +-1.5 100hz-16khz, that's not bad, but FR isn't everything so without hearing them it's hard to say:

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=302-920

all the others are probably not what you want for studio work.

Here's one that's gets good reviews and you can get the matched components without the cabinets if you want to build your own:

http://www.madisound.com/ar_com.html

and the guys at Madisound are great, I live a couple of miles away from them, if you can talk to Larry.