That is why all the speakers I have built in the last decade, have been from kits. Knowing how to brace cabinets is also important, as well as how to damp and remove resonances for cabinets.
Just plugging in the correct driver parameters into speaker design software, and expecting it to be right without quite a bit of tweaking, is not practical. Remember, building great speakers, is a lot more than buying great drivers, and throwing them in the correct sized box.
They make flat packs for some of Campbell and Holtz’ kits.Īnother great speaker designer, Javad Shadzi has some good vids of his designs and builds, measurements, special construction methods, etc. Sone of hsi designs are not for the faint of heart, requiring some pretty advanced woodworking skills. Not to mention, many of their best kits come with ’flat packs’, which are knock down fully cut cabinets, that just need to be glued up, and finished how you like.Īnd another site, not mentioned yet, is Troel Graveson’s site. Paul Carmody’s Carrera’s are also extremely good.Īs previously mentioned, GR Research is another great company. Jeff Bagby’s Kairos, Testarrosa, and Auricle are all fantastic.Ĭampbell and Holtz Bordeaux are quite incredible, using Accuton mids and Arum Cantus ribbon tweeters. Jeff Bagby, Kurt Campbell-Jim Holtz, Paul Carmody, and others. They have quite a few high end kits, designed by many well respected designers. These kits use many of the same drivers and crossover components, or better, as all those high end speaker manufacturers use.Īnd it is also not too hard to incorporate some pretty It’s a wonder how much less one has to spend, when there is no: advertising, marketing, fancy shipping boxes, etc., etc., one has to pay for in the cost of their speakers. Just as one example, my Jeff Bagby designed Auricles, sitting on a pair of Bagby’s woofer modules, have a total of about $2000 invested, but could easily rival high end speakers that would cost over $10,000. Ending up with something that sounds as good as a commercially available speaker for a fifth the cost (or less) is not the exception, it is the norm. It is quite easy these days, to build a high end speaker from a kit, that will rival commercially sold speakers for, quite a bit less $$.
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