Friday, May 31, 2013

Turntable got a new needle and a new belt. Now it works. Want to show to my kid how we used to listen music

Friday, May 24, 2013


It is going to be 2-way design with XT25 tweeters and HiVi M8a woofers, XT25 can be crossed pretty low with 4th order crossover.
MiniDSP 2x4 will do the job well I hope.

My wife and kid are going to have a long trip to visit all the grandparents so I'll finally can do a lot!

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

What a huge amount of information I have to digest!
Passive filter design scares me a lot. Especially the price for good quality components. I'll go with with active amplification, it will give me much more flexibility

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

There will be new speakers

Speakers

Not so far I bought some used Onkyo gear on a garage sale. LP, preamplifier, amplifier, FM tuner, cassette deck, surround amp, two tower speakers - all for 50 bucks. Great deal. But speakers were just burned down. Initially i just wanted to repair speakers, but it was just a beginning of a new adventure... Speakers design was quite questionable - 3.5 feet tall speakers made of 0.25” panels, not properly sealed. 1st-order crossovers made from crappy components. So I had a dilemma - buy new drivers and get renewed pair of shitty speakers or build my own new speakers out of nice solid ¾” MDF…
I chose the second way.
I had a little previous experience with building speakers, but it was not really serious.

Almost every step on this way seems to be a new experience for me and I expect myself making stupid mistakes. I have to buy all the tools and materials needed and having not too much free time the whole process is going to take a while. I better be patient (I hope my wife will be patient too)...


So I started to recall all the knowledge I through the years trying to find some good recipes. Wise people on the Internet keep saying “for your first speakers choose a proven 2-way design” and bla-bla-bla. But who listen to a wisdom nowadays? Let's see...

And what a surprise! I picked up another Pioneer speaker at a dumpster. It works!
It seems to be the same design but I don't care, I'll use it as a test load for my experiments.