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Extreme DIY

SV Staff  |  Mar 14, 2016

If you’ve ever thought about building your own speakers and are looking for a little inspiration, here it is in the form of a speaker built by DIYer Mark in Latvia.

The speaker was built from plans on Troels Gravesen’s Denmark-based website, DIY Loudspeakers.

To follow in Mark’s footsteps you’ll need around $5,000 for the Seas drivers and crossover parts, a great wood shop, master woodworking skills (or a cooperative and patient friend with both who works cheap!), about two years' time, and a lot of faith that you'll like the way they sound.

Construction photos and a note from the DIYer can be found here.

Here's the crossover in a slightly less ambitiously styled, Wilsonian Alexia-like cabinet:

COMMENTS
TimmyS's picture
Submitted by TimmyS on March 14, 2016 - 8:45am

I am wondering how the crossover was designed? Were the driver parameters and responses measured and input into a crossover optimization program?

The crossover components sure look beefy!

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Submitted by TimmyS on March 23, 2016 - 9:15am

I checked the web sites and it appears the author of the kits knows what they are doing.

Warrior24_7's picture
Submitted by Warrior24_7 on March 16, 2016 - 12:09am

$5000+ parts, labor, and help? For "that" kind of money and effort you can buy a pretty nice pair of speakers, which defeats the whole purpose of this!

TimmyS's picture
Submitted by TimmyS on March 18, 2016 - 9:38am

Unless of course they are near the quality of a $25k++ pr of speakers!

Warrior24_7's picture
Submitted by Warrior24_7 on March 21, 2016 - 12:39am

I would hope that the parts for a 25k pair of speakers cost more than 5000 dollars! That would say a lot about the HT industry! Just looking at that picture of the back... I doubt it.

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Submitted by TimmyS on March 23, 2016 - 9:12am

I can assure you that 5X is not that bad. My brother works for a Fortune 500 manufacturing company making "commodities" and the markup is stupendous compared to high end audio. Stuff that costs 27 cents to make including packaging and shipping sells at retail for $5 to $10. And you keep buying stuff like that on a very regular schedule!

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