John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

I found some cheap parts for monitors, after some more research im going to try to build some. Im going to start out with a basic pair im trying to spend a total of $45-60 on parts not including cabinets. Then if I can make a descent pair in a reasonable amount of time, ill try to make a higher quality version. So eventualy these will end up being refrence monitors.
Im still trying to get a flat response should I go 50-20 or 50-22? would 70-20 matter? back to reading up on this.

Is there any way of making these active monitors ?
For each speaker I need sub,tweeter,crossover,port,terminal ?
If I use two tweeters to make it 3way will that affect its ability to be flat?
do i need a lpad?
Whats the difference in tweeters dome,ribbon,cone,metal?

example PYLE PRO 6-1/2 70-9,000
PIONEER 1" SOFT DOME 3,000-20,000 5k crossover
this should sound ok? right? its 70-20k 28 bucks

heres some of the parts im looking at, wich do you think will work best?
subs
8.45 pyramid wx65 6 1/2'' 70-3500
11.70 GOLDWOOD GW-206 6 1/2'' 60-3000
14.25 PYRAMID W64 6 1/2" 60-5000
12.88 GOLDWOOD GW-S650 7" 35-5000
16.50 GOLDWOOD GW-6028 6-1/2 55-3,000
15.65 DAYTON PA165-8 6" 80-5,000 Hz
15.50 PYLE PRO PDMW6 6-1/2 70-9,000 Hz
tweeters
6.14 AUDAX HY014R1 TITANIUM 1/2'' 4000-19
4.60 DAYTON ND20FA-6 3/4" NEODYMIUM DOME 3,500-25
4.93 TANG BAND 13-1264SA 1/2" TEXTILE 3,000-20
6.95 GOLDWOOD GT-322 1" TITANIUM DOME 3,500-20
12.90 PIONEER FBDE75-52F 1" SOFT DOME 3,000-20
2.30 GOLDWOOD GT-302/S 2-3/8" MYLAR DOME 4,000-19
.25 ONKYO 3/8" MYLAR DOME 6,000-20
11.00 PYRAMID TW22M NEODYMIUM silk dome 1" 2,000-20
9.88 1-3/4" NEODYMIUM TWEETER PAIR 3,000-20

Saw your identical post at HR but had no time - not much more time right now, but will see if I can help even though you haven't followed forum guidelines (no location, please edit your profile)

you give no indication of what type music you're into, what kind of room, how loud, etc, so about all I can do is provide some links to follow - but first, from your post (signature) on HR I'm assuming you're into beat music or similar? If so, you're gonna want either a larger woofer in main speakers or a sub -

Also, if your main goal is to learn more about speakers, then I think you're on the right track - making a bunch of mistakes is probably the best way to learn, assuming you then research WHY it was a mistake. And eventually you'd reach your goal of having good sounding speakers. But be prepared for this to cost 'WAY more than you think and take 'WAY longer than you may want it to.

If what you're REALLY after is a decent pair of speakers (for a relatively low price) then you might be better off just buying a pair of Behringer active's with the 8" woofer for $329 mail order (AMS, Musician's Friend, etc, have these) - I don't normally recommend ANYTHING by Behringer since it's my opinion that they rip off other successful designs and manufacture them with inferior components in order to keep prices down, but I bought a pair of these just to use for room excitation in acoustic evaluations, and they sound pretty decent (at least for bass-heavy styles).

Anyway, please edit your location, and check out these links for more education -

http://www.linkwitzlab.com/frontiers.htm

http://www.simplyspeakers.com/

http://www.speakerbuilding.com/

http://www.speakercity.com/Merchant2/me ... re_Code=SC

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

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~mleach/audiothings.html

http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages ... 31062.html

If you really mine those links for all you can find, you'll see what I meant by my earlier comments on "what you really want" - this can be a life's work if you let it. HTH... Steve