Build Your Own Subwoofer 232
Gerard J. Pinzone writes "Here's a page that details the construction of a homebrew subwoofer." Another in a long line of "You can, but should you?" projects.
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro
Check out Hometheaterforum.com (Score:5, Informative)
The DIY section on avsforum [avsforum.com] also has some info.
DIY subwoofers [diysubwoofers.org] is another place to start.
In fact a google search [google.com] yields about 16,000 results with the words "DIY" and "subwoofer".
Which brings me to...
Is this really news?
-S
Not too detailed... (Score:4, Informative)
Score -1, clueless (Score:5, Informative)
Yes!! You should!!! (Score:3, Informative)
I've built a couple Subs based around the Shiva Mk II driver this guy used, along with a 250W plate amplifier from partsexpress, and it is amazing. Easily produces useable bass down to 20 hz in a sealed enclosure (F3 of something like 17.3 hz in a 1.7 cu ft. box, if I remember correctly...). An adire sub kit easily rivals subs in the $1000-$1200 range.
Listening to one of these explains why audiophiles don't like those Sat/sub computer multimedia sets, and tend to call them a "bunch of crap". None of them produce any useable bass below 50-60 hz, and a lot of HT systems are designed such that the sub only STARTS playing from those frequencies down.
Having said that, I don't see why this is front page news on
Good=Loud? (Score:2, Informative)
-Chris
Ha! That's nothing! (Score:3, Informative)
Loudspeaker Design Cookbook by Vance Dickason (Score:3, Informative)
I own the 4th and 5th editions of this book, and it has everything you would ever want on enclosure design. You can pick it up from Crutchfield, or I'm sure Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. should carry it.
There is one trick to doing this right (Score:4, Informative)
This has to be the worst Slashdot how-to ever. There is absolutely nothing geeky about doing it blind like this, especially considering how much information is available about doing it the right way. So kids, don't do this at home; do better!
Re:Case only. (Score:4, Informative)
In case you're thinking of a similar project, a good page with all kinds of information and links for designing and building your own subwoofers that actually sound good is here [scrounge.org].
Here [wssh.net] is a page of freeware loudspeaker design software and links to more. And another such page of speaker design software is here [tripod.com].
I read at +3 (Score:3, Informative)
(For those not wishing to slashdot OSDN, it's for gspeaker, a gpl software for determining speaker enclosure sizes)
Re:Amazing! (Score:2, Informative)
There's a similar question with -ing, which has led some British publications to distinguish between 'routeing' and 'routing', but most people just write routing for both.