Step by Step Guide to Build Your Own Speakers | DIY Speaker Building

Step by step speaker building. This is an intro to my video series on building your own speakers.
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STEP by STEP VIDEOS

Step: 3 Choose Your Drivers - Coming Soon!
Step: 4 Design Your Enclosure - Coming Soon!
Step: 5 Design Your Crossover - Coming Soon!
Step: 6 Build Your Enclosure - Coming Soon!
Step: 7 The Test! - Coming Soon!
Step: 8 The Finish - Coming Soon!

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SPEAKER BUILDING KITS

Higher End Kits:

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ALL YOU NEED TO GET STARTED

TOOLS

CAMERA GEAR

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If you have any questions, comment!
I invite you to be apart of this awesome community.

Thank you so much for watching!

-Kirby

[rickhockersmith]

I had some oak boxes I turned into speakers / end-tables. I bought an instruction book from Radio Shack on how to build them for the right drivers. It contained all of the formulations I needed. Then, I ordered my tweeters, mid-ranges, and bass drivers with the proper crossover along with the connectors. They both sounded great and looked better than any item you could buy. Plus rugged enough to be furniture or moved to another location.

[Purveyorofawesome]

Going to be one hell of a fun journey!

[lawrencemaithyamutie]

learned alot actually.. looking foward to start my project soon

[tobiasbanz]

Great video! Never thought of building my own speaker. I'm probably gonna do a school project building one! Thanks for the tips mate, appreciate it!

[jimmcintyre]

Wow! I love your passion for this! I just did my car with all new stuff. Drilled holes in the door for tweeters. Could not believe how much better it sounded even though I knew next to nothing about doing this. So much fun. I very much look forward to learning from you. I think I will order your blue tooth speaker to get started. Keep up the great work!

[kevinlivingston]

Great video Kirby! Keep up the good work and this channel is definitely going to rise to the top. There's a ton of videos out there but there's a big deficit when it comes to teaching and instructing about proper builds. Will be anxiously awaiting your next video. Don't forget about active vs passive crossovers

[ryannutter]

Hey man! Just subscribed to your channel a few days ago, and I just wanted to say you have some great vids! I'm a former DIY speaker builder/designer myself (used to frequent the P.E. Tech Talk forum for years). I wish there were more people in the hobby that could dedicate a channel to the craft. You've done definitely done that in spades. I traded my speaker building in for a small woodworking business these days, but watching your vids makes me want to break out my measurement gear and stock back up on my crossover parts. Lol. Congrats on starting your own business too!

[Sules]

Finally, this step by step guide is what I've been looking for. Great Videos.

[mikimendizale]

THIS IS AMAZING!!!! Congrats for the channel. This is the best guide for DIY speaker begginers. Thanks so much!!

[Justwantahover]

Step #7
I don't think many beginners will be able to judge what to do with a crossover if they made it by computer or math, or even a pre built crossover. It takes experience to judge how to fix a crossover just by listening to it. I can do it cos I have been trying for decades. It takes time and curiosity. Now I have built a completely GUESSED crossover and it was GREAT the very first time. It happened yesterday for the very first time. My previous set of speaker crossovers took a year before I was happy (a particular challenging acoustic set-up in those speakers). But without experience you may have to go to your computer to tweak it. You have to know (approximately) all the frequencies in hz and khz (when you hear them). And you have to know (off hand) the ranges of the caps and inductors without looking it up, if you have any hope of doing it just by listening. I found out just by hearing different caps and inductors (over the years). No computer or math on paper (just in my head). And you have to know how caps and inductors behave in parallel and in series (way difference). And you have to watch the impedance with your resistors etc. I have some speakers that go down to 2 ohms above 10 khz. lol but I am actually aware of that and the speakers sound great so I don't care but I would NOT put those speakers on any hi end (expensive) amp. And I now have a different driver set-up design and so this is the only pair I made like that. The next ones only go down to 4 ohms in the highs. Ineficient but killer sound top end. And there is the (dreaded) woofer tweeter level that I think is very important cos it gives you a choice on bass content against treble content. Too much woofer can DROWN OUT the nice highs and visa versa. And that I find is about the most difficult crossover challenge. My "tweeters" are coaxial (inside med drivers) and the "tweeters" are completely DIPOLE. That's why they are ridiculously inefficient but killer best treble I heard.

[jeffgendron]

Nice introduction for the absolute basics. I think a lot of people will benefit from your information. And yes there is no right and wrong way if you have a method that works for you. I've run into that over the years with some people. I do want to add a couple of thoughts as I've been building DIY hifi speakers for 20 years:

In the initial planning a major factor is the total Q of the woofer. To get the woofer to perform properly in the most basic sense there is one spec in the TS parameters most important to look at first. That is the QTS. For sealed enclosures, woofer QTS should be between 0.50 - 0.6. For ported and passive radiator between 0.25 - 0.45. The consequences to picking woofer with a QTS of lets say .3 for a sealed enclosure would be that the woofer will make no bass and have no weight to the bass sound. The consequences to picking woofer with a QTS of lets say .6 for a ported enclosure would be that the woofer will sound boomy and heavy, muddy and also have a bad resonance spike somewhere in the upper bass that would be nasty to listen too. After you have found an appropriate QTS then the FS and the VAS are the next most important TS parameters that can make or break how good a woofer can perform.My advice is to get a modeling program of some sort and try the woofer TS parameters in some different enclosure types and sizes and see what looks best. To know what looks best in a plotted frequency response is a whole other topic so people reading this need to learn that in a basic sense to know what to look for.

[iannolasco]

when will step 3 will be uploaded?? hehehe i cant wait to learn new thing :) thumbs up!! :)

[Moto_Mania__]

I’m 15 and I started out buying a $25 Logitech surround sound system at savers (witch was acually ok) to now wanting a set of $800 Sony speakers (I don’t have 800 to spend on speaker) so I think this might be the way 😂 I’m really good with electronics woodworking really a lot so I don’t think it will be a problem

[MajidAlQassimi]

Bro, awesome vid and blown away how much you put into this. Helped loads and enough for me to really consider making speakers and perhaps as gifts.

Salute you!

[arthurwatts]

Kirby, you're definitely my favorite hipster (not a lot of competition, admittedly) and I like your enthusiasm for your content.

[runar]

congratulations on the 5K, nice content

[kabir]

Just seen a few of your vids, subscribed immediately!. Great work, cant wait to see your future builds

[leuse]

this video was not only super helpful but just really inspiring. You can really see you're passionate about this and it's infectious :) Thanks and subbed

[Henkecool]

WHY DO YOU NOT HAVE MILLIONS OF SUBSCRIBERS, THIS IS AMAZING!

[jimchallenger]

Awesome DYI video! 11 minutes of watching you talk, congratulations!