okie@ihuxi.UUCP (cobb) (03/07/85)
*** REMESS THIS PLACE WITH YOUR LINEAGE *** Okay, I'll try once more. Any of you audiophreaks out there know where I can get some good source material (books, etc.) on designing and building my own speakers? I'm looking for sources other than the Speaker Builder magazine listed on the net a few days ago. Somebody out there, please respond! Talk to your friends and neighbors. Somebody out there has *got* to know something about this! B.K.Cobb ihnp4!ihuxi!okie AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (03/08/85)
[] I built two for-real speakers in my lifetime. One at school using the EE Depts woodshop. (woodshop? yes, woodshop) I copied the EV Aristocrat corner horn. Later as a poor struggling engineer I built a Karlson. the combination of the two together was super, if a bit imposing. I wouldn't do it again for several reasons. 1) I'm poor and no longer struggling as I'm too old and fat to struggle. 2) It's not worth it. You can buy better if you spend some time on your fanny researching. 3) Don't know for sure, but I'd guess the supply of good speakers is not what it used to be. 4) You can't trust what anyone says about how a speaker sounds. You need to hear it yourself. For one thing, it varies incredibly with the room. As a P&S student and young engineer I got to hear my aristrocrat (w/EV SP-12B) in a wide variety of environments, from Neurophysiology Lab to ancient Victorian mansion. From house trailer to Crack-in-the- Picture-window Modern. Every place it was different. Wow, I can still hear in my minds ear that Lab with all the glassware, marble floors and slate workbenches - and the Victorian mansion with central stairwell going up three stories. What bass! I only wish I'd had my AR-9's in those places. You're right. It is fun. I still remember it after 1/3 century. But few are interested in fun today - of that kind. Hope you find someone to work with, it helps. My Karlson was built with a Kelly Kollege student who lived in the apartment below. Little did we guess,when burning the midnight oil, that we would grow up to have a BTL vice president brand us in the company paper as loyal but slow. Ah, such is life. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg
reid@Glacier.ARPA (03/08/85)
I had posted this information a year ago so I didn't respond, but here it is again. I highly recommend the book @i[High Performance Loudspeakers, Second Edition], by Martin Colloms. John Wiley and Sons, 1980. A Halsted Press book. It is a comprehensive theoretical treatise on how loudspeakers work, with enough practical information to enable you to engineer your own speakers and enough bibliographic references to enable you to learn as much more as you are willing to spend the time on. This book is a great place to start. -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA