Audiophiles Get In Here!

[Gman]

I built my own too. I don't build the drivers, buts let be real, the enclosure is extremely important. It must be custom built to the correct dimensions to best suit the driver combonations and specs along with the crossovers. All my enclosures I have used software to design correctly.

I have however built my own crossovers including winding my own inductors.

That's pretty cool building your own crossovers. I built some of my own speaker enclosures back in the '80s. I had to use a book and some math to figure out issues with standing waves and resonant frequency.

[sellersm]

I dabbled with ribbon/planar speakers for a while (Magnepan) and really liked them.

One of the best things is to expose yourself to live music, preferably the kind with non-electronic instruments. That way you have a true reference. As a musician, I've got many years of exposure to "live " music which helps a lot in knowing how I want my music to sound.


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[jerrymrc]

I see what I have done. Still stand by what I said. Just to kind of reply to some of the comments in no particular order and some thoughts.

Some of the Polk products are not bad but I have not heard any of there newer speakers in awhile. I have some and have owned some but Polk started meeting a price point long ago.

Currently have 4 systems in the house. One setup is my own 2way design speakers that sounds good and has a Yamaha preamp, a GAS power amp, a Marantz tuner and Yamaha and Technics for the CD and TT.

Downstairs has a Yamaha amp driven by a Carver pre. Magnepan are the speakers. Garage system is a Yamaha receiver powering a set of HPM 700's or a set of NS-690's Reloading room has Yamaha, driving a set of Polk Monitor 4's. I also have a HT setup that currently has Polk speakers but I need to finish my Sat-Sub setup that uses JBL/Vifa drivers.

I am one of those people that grew up in the 60's-70's that spent $400 on my first true stereo in 72. It only got out of hand from there. I have heard speakers in the last few years that range all the way up to $6000 per pair and have to say some of them sounded pretty nice.

I like building things myself as well.

[NFATrustGuy]

I like building things myself as well.

That is some really cool stuff!

One of these days I'd like to talk with you via PM about what it would take to design a subwoofer system for my home theater setup in my basement. I'd like to incorporate it into a raised platform I built out of 2 x 12's for a stadium seating setup. I'd like to use the 2 x 12 box that's roughly 5' x 8' by 1' tall to house the amp and woofer(s).

When I finished the basement, I ran coax and 12 gauge speaker wire from my amp through the wall to my big box. My hope is to hide the subwoofer.

This site is pretty cool. Lots of experience in lots of things.

[Hound]

+1 but I also like my Bose.

FIFY

Klipsch

[Tim K]

Oh, you wind your own coils, build your own cones, glue on surrounds...

What, put drivers in a box?

I'm still a rookie working wood, but I found the curved transverse laminated boxes fairly challenging.

There's a build thread here:

http://techtalk.parts-express.com/sh...ensation-build

And another detailing the sub.

http://techtalk.parts-express.com/sh...us-Anarchy-Sub

[sellersm]

Jerrymrc, which model Magnepan speakers?

IMHO Polk was ok at first. Same with Carver.


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[hobowh]

I did my phone nicely auto corrected...

Do you mean Snell? If so I used to sell them years ago and they sounded great, too bad they aren't around anymore.

Denon used to be great and one of my favs until they started moving their production out of their own plants in Japan to China. DOA product and repairs skyrocketed at that point, now only their flagship receiver is made in Japan. They are now owned by D&M now as well as Marantz and McIntosh. If you take any of them apart the internals are nearly identical these days.

Blose.. don't even get me started, I can't figure out how they ever developed such a hardcore following, I guess mass marketing works for them.

Monitor Audio has some great speakers. NHTs are my favs for flat response monitor speakers, if you want to hear music as it was mixed in the studio get some NHTs. Genelecs sound good but I've seen too many go in for repair to support them anymore. B&W are great but you are going to put out some serious money for them. KEF has a great product line, they can be a llittle bright though. Klipsch, not sure why people think a horn tweeter in anything other than a high power stage monitor is a good thing.

[davsel]

Still have my Polk Audio SDA 1Cs from 1989 - Purchased tax free from the BX in England. Added a DBX BX-3 Power Amp and fared well in the dormitory stereo battles.




My father-in-law recently passed away and left us some Marantz and McIntosh tube amplifiers, turntables, and various high-end (for the time) equipment.
I'll probably be putting the vintage stuff up for sale once I figure out what we've got.

[sellersm]

I remember the SDA 1Cs! Always liked McIntosh equipment!