7 Steps To Pick The Best Drivers For Your DIY Speaker Project || Step 3

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I invite you to be apart of this awesome community.

Thank you so much for watching!

-Kirby

[julesbilodeau]

I'm so glad you mentioned the looks in there!! I see so many people saying it doesn't matter, its a speaker, its only supposed to SOUND good.... I want my speaker to look at LEAST as good as they sound!! It IS something that matters!! altho maybe not that much in a first build.... Great video Kirby! I think a LOT of people are going to start their first project because of that video serie!!! Keep it up!

[ilpatongi]

Another thing that I suggest for the first build: don't worry about the look and sound of the final product.

Just remember to study, especially T/S parameters, how do they work and crossovers.
A well built crossover is 50% of the work

[jamiejew]

So nice to see someone actually sharing their knowledge on audio. It's such a closed (sometimes pretentious) community!

Kirby, you're a breath of fresh air.

[roberterickson]

Clean well shot and edited with clear concise information. Love the obvious honest passion you have for your channel thank you! Looking forward to future videos!

[romanengelbrecht]

haha i couldnt help but laugh and nod in agreement when you said the budget is probably your first step

[soundcog]

Kirby, I see some criticism in the comments but feel that you aren't attempting to address the minutia of speaker building but give an overall basic understanding. As you've said in your videos, we need to do our own research as well and make our own decisions. Picking at your videos because you did or didn't mention or explain something is unfair. Please know there are lots of viewers who appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Keep up the great work!! I really like the music you use in your build videos, its calming and coordinates well with watching a build. Thanks

[sherylcalimquim]

I bought only 2 inch ghxamp and aiyima speaker and amplifiers. I also bought a narra wood here in palawan. Problem is I can not make mistakes cutting narra wood because it is too expensive. It is a one time cut and trim and making holes. Heavy wood but worth the sound quality.

[Omlet]

This video was exactly what I was looking for

[jonathanaugle]

Great video. I am one of the small army you have accumulated over the past month. The only thing I am still not sure on is picking and using batteries. Would love to see a video explaining them.

[deralex]

+1, 168.1% subscribers last 30 days (socialblade) you are growing fast. Well deserved imho

[klokibril]

I just collect all sorts of old drivers from old speakers or cheap sets or thriftshops and based on what I have laying around I think of an enclosure type 'feels' correct for the drivers. It's going pretty well so far, already built one set of MLTL (Vifa ring radiator + Tannoy woofer, custom made crossover) and a smaller full range (FRS8 with homemade notch filter) TL.

I'm planning on building a back loaded horn with a small 3" or 4" full range driver. Can't wait :D

[danielstillmaker]

as always love the vid. not sure if this is your thing but one of the things they do in car reviews is glamor shots. it's just a bunch of close up pans and zooms that show off the car and specifically any mods done to it. might be a cool way to showcase your gorgeous speakers. just two more cents from a stranger. keep doing what your doing man. p.s. love the sound test at the end.

[mikepeters]

I'm enjoying this series on DIY speaker building.
You keep mentioning driver data sheets. Maybe it's coming up, but if not, can I suggest a short vid looking over a driver's data sheet and how to read it?

[JoeJ-]

Parts Express IS a great place for a very wide selection of speaker drivers of all types and price ranges, but also MCM Electronics and Madisound are two other great places to get speaker drivers and other speaker related components, (x-over stuff, cabinet HW, etc.)

And as far as the main title of this video goes, I also do a final side-by-side A/B/(C/D) listening comparison, (using a few of my favorite well known CDs and a special 4-way driver switch that I made), between any/all of the potential drivers that I'm considering for a speaker project to make sure I get the absolute cleanest and best sounding ones!... This is especially important to do with the midrange drivers, because I have found *tremendous* differences in overall sound quality and clarity, even between mids of the exact same size and type/design... And even though in general you get what you pay for with speaker quality, I have definitely come across a few really inexpensive drivers, (sometimes even "free", scrapped from another old or damaged speaker), that sound WAY better than some MUCH more expensive new ones, so a high price shouldn't be the main and definitely not the only deciding factor in guaranteeing a good sound... You definitely have to listen to them too! (As I'm sure *you* already know, but some people reading this may not have considered that...)

I have checked out a few of your speaker building videos, and I agree with most of what you are talking about... I might just have to subscribe.

[jeremylindemann]

I have some questions about enclosures, drivers and their acoustic relationship.


Firstly - Older/vintage enclosure shape was generally tall, wide and shallow whereas modern speakers tend to be tall, narrow and deep. What is the general sound you get out of older cabinet shapes vs new? Are newer ones better or different?


Secondly - Is there a general guide for how big the speakers (mainly woofer) should be in relationship to the cabinet? Is there a reason that a 4"or 6"woofer shouldn't be used in a cabinet that is, say, 500mm wide and 700mm tall? Is there a such thing as too small and too big?


Thirdly - Is it necessary to pad the inside of bigger cabinets or are there advantages/disadvantages to installing padding vs nothing?


Fourthly - Do you do any special calculations of how the cabinet space and shape will interact with the drivers or is that too in depth and unnecessary?


I'm asking because I have some vintage speakers (Goodman XB 25) that I need to replace all the drivers for. The woofers were missing and one of the tweeters was broken so I'll just buy new ones. They do have some 8"radio shack subwoofers as replacements which I think are good but I'm wondering they're somehow a bad match for those cabinets.


Also because I modified two sets of big enclosures maybe 20 years ago with mixed results. I had almost no idea about acoustics so I probably did too many things wrong. One set sounded okay, the other set ended up sounding weak. I can more into detail on the specifics of those if anyone wants to talk about that.

[Mrkpj]

To summarize: You pays yer money you makes yer choice.

[dvdganon]

hi. i am building a portable speaker and i want an oval (pill shaped) speaker driver. with a good sound quality and full range of sound. i am going to use 2 of them. left and right. can you recommend on a good quality speaker for that purpose ? thanks.

[-HieuNguyen-]

I think that this is real channel for me can "study". I hope your channel growing fast

[HarshRaj-jhgv]

What speaker i should use for making headphones? Will. 8ohm, 1.5w speakers work??

[switchofftogettagrip]

Will need to watch all of your videos 💯

Learning to build PC vs Monsters - mine requires 2 speakers + the other requires 2 speakers.

Lots to learn 💯 cheers for the playlist and plain English used 💪💯 Budget depends on speakers that fit the Monster.

As for the smaller one that cheap as chips.

$2, 000 should do it for sound and other additional thoughts towards things to out pump the junk Bluetooth speaker trash they use around here 🔥 😂😂