i get a lot of enjoyment watching this kind of DIY projects than some fancy big name speakers that cost 50 or even 100K . WISH you played some music . hope they sound as great as they look .
Man! I love the design. I noticed that each driver has its own dedicated enclosure. Given they have a good crossover, I imagine that the separate enclosures does much for the sound as well. Very Inspiring!
Just wow! I love the look of these, and it happens to be my favorite color which is a bonus. Your friend could accomplish great things if he decided to manufacture his own speakers and bring them to the masses. I'd be his first customer! Great video and thanks!
I have to say I did not. I bought them pre made by an electronic and accoustic engineer. I have it set up and it measures in room at 17 hz (-3db). 500w a/b amp. High level inputs make a real improvement 2 channel integration. I am 2.1 channel only. Tube based. I underpin my ProAc's as I, like your good self, love real unflustered bass extension. 😀
Very impressive,! would love to hear it in person! I love anyone who takes time and passion to build great sounding speakers and as you mentioned, bass forms a great starting point as most floor standing speakers don't provide you the punch unless you do some tweaking or adding DSP etc. Love the workmanship on these speakers. They do look like Scan speakers and the subwoofer used here could be Dayton Audio but I could be wrong. Nice work mate, thanks for sharing your video!
wonderful system ! i like so much the concept of segregating drivers each in their own cabinet. The colour is debatable ... i like piano black usually ... i like in general speakers that disappear not only sonically but also visually. You upload excellent videos indeed ... thank you very much for this. Kind regards, gino
Thomas those are really nice speakers way to go with that guy building them, they look great and they must sound great he's got some nice equipment there!!!! but he still spend that awful lot of money to get there!!!! for most of us it's not the way to go, but kudos to that guy for matching up his equipment properly!!!!😎
Like the colour..and his effort..canr say about the sound until I hear it..but like..if he release a video showing the steps..the reason of chossing..wud be great inspiration to lot of people.. I like the look..so thumbs up for him!..yeah..
Thank for for showcasing this super smart design with each speaker in it's own case. Who would have the balls to do that? This guy did. The guy that made them. ...and I can just look at this system, like I can a guitar, and just tell if it sounds good or not. I am in love with this concept, especially the mid-range speakers mounted in those long tubes. That is so impactful. And each speaker container has only that speaker inside of it and that lets it do its own thing. I wonder if these have some kind of cross-over system. Active Cross-over systems can be awesome for clarity and less distortion,, but can also make it loose some of its magic. For this system, ... I'd have to try it all 3 ways, (active x-over, passive x-over, and no cross=over, but I think with an active crossover it could really be awesome, especially a 3 way active cross over. This video is so inspiring and it has inspired me to think a lot bigger than I was thinking. Still, ...this is a difficult and long term project. I need some better sound now, quickly, and on the cheap. I am going to by some old passive speakers, and a cheap 20w stereo power amp, with bluetooth, mp3, usb, etc., and try to get by until I can try to copy something like this guy did. Awesome speaker concept with each speaker in its own cabinet, and each cabinet maximized for that speaker and its frequencies. This is an awesome and inspiring video. Thanks. Now go build it!!!!
I’m a diy freak myself and those are some impressive speakers. In build especially, special emphasis put on the mid drivers and their beautiful. I’d be happy to specially design a set of speakers for you. Can’t really put it together though don’t have the materials, space or the cash on hand being a teen.
I run two amps..one for top end running some celestions and a pa amp running two 12,s dual voice coil wired to 8ohm bridged mode just for bass cut off around 50hz.with a dsp. ..it's a cheap way to get a lot of power while getting a clean sound
That Audio Research SP8 that you have there is a thin sounding tube preamp.i got rid of all my ARC stuff in the 90's,because most of it sounded like solid state.
And again very good speakers with (or because of?) Scan Speak drivers, except for the tweeter. Unfortunately Scan Speak makes no air motion transformers. But their best dome tweeters challenge all ribbons and AMTs.
I make speakers as a hobby, but I don't do it just to make speakers, I do speaker concept research with time aligned 2-way drivers (plus non time aligned woofer in some speakers). One concept is just like the KEF Uni Q and I bought a pair of "guitar" 8"drivers (stiff suspension) and with a 2" voice coil. And I bought a pair of 1.5" diam Car tweeters (1" soft domes) and set them inside the voice coil tube of the 8" drivers. They are point source and have the "headphones effect" med is good cos the paper cones are thin but bass is lacking (they are in bookshelf enclosures). And they are pure point source cos the bass port is also point source. It surrounds the driver which is set 1.5 mm above the speaker hole and there is a 2" deep tube inside the speaker box, around the hole (like over an 8" diam port). The lack of bass is only cos of the drivers and the bookshelf boxes. A bad combination, and one day I might make larger enclosures with an extra 8" woofer or just run them with a sub or woofers in separate boxes. This concept is difficult cos it's hard to find drivers that fit inside. And it is more expensive than my next concept, which solves the availability problem as well. This concept is a 4" full range driver with a hole drilled through it and another tiny FR driver is mounted at the back of the 4" FR driver. The tiny driver is stripped of it's cone and a thin stick is glued (perpendicular to it) and it pokes through the hole I drilled in the 4" FR driver. And it pokes out the front till it is at time align position with the 4" driver cone. Then a tiny foil "tizzer" is glued to the end of the stick. This makes a FR driver "sting" like a full-on tweeter, high treble from the tiny "tizzer" makes the treble really strong compared to my cheap 4" FR driver (by itself). I have them combined with a woofer under (the best speakers I ever made). ua-cam.com/video/J4OUZhban_4/v-deo.html They are also really cheap to make and (I reckon) sound even better than tweeters. But you have to be careful with the size of the tiny "tizzer". I want to experiment with different "tizzer" materials as well. The 4" drivers are also "float mounted" like with the 8" drivers in my last concept. I have another concept I started on is a pair of drum speakers (essentially a planar speaker). I'm making them out of tambourines with a stripped down FR driver driving it (with a slightly extended voice coil tube) and the same coaxial setup on the back of the driver with the extra tiny stripped down driver, the stick and the "tizzer". You also have to dampen the drum with cloth stuff around the edge. The idea is to get that "electrostatic speaker" sound with coil speakers. I did an experiment and held a stripped down speaker driven stick onto a drum and the bass was surprisingly intense. Cos the drum flexes, it's like a driver in an open baffle (not like an open driver by itself). The edges don't move as much as the center of the drum, and you get a nice warm voice sound without an enclosure (unlike an open driver). And with an extra woofer it would sound amazing I reckon. And you don't need much voice content in the woofer to get a solid strong voice sound (making it more point source) and the open sound of the planar speaker as well. It goes down way lower than an open FR driver (witch I have also experimented on). But straight open drivers lack warmth really badly and are hardly much different to tweeters in sound (the sound is so "thin"). You are relying on the woofer for most of the voice sound so drivers can never be point source and completely open. The only way is the drum speaker. But now I just have them raised a bit from the speaker hole (instead of totally open) for a more open sound than normally mounted (while retaining the warmth). But this is difficult and the floating distance is ridiculously critical for good (or even acceptable) sound. The planar speaker would not only be completely open but also way more free of resonances that make float mounting drivers such a challenge. And float mounting only sounds partially open (but way more airy than standard mounting). I think it's a much nicer sound, and it's the main reason I did the concentric bass port in my first concept. The 1.5 mm high float mounting sounds way different than standard mounting on my 8" coaxials (1st concept). It's a more open sound and the drum speaker will take the open sound to the next level.
@@ThomasAndStereo Thanks, I really like the look of those bass drivers and bass enclosures. I want to make some bass enclosures that size soon. I got some 10" bass drivers but they are really high power ones, maybe not enough power to drive them. I only have 200 w a side. lol The drivers are really heavy and with a thick rubber surround and they are so stiff you can't even "pump" them with your hands. lol
Speakers that are musical. Finally someone who gets it. Cerwin Vega's, like the 12" or 15" 3-way home speakers cranked up to 10 on a clean sparkly high end amplifier, ...that is the best sound I have ever heard. And even commercial grade Cerwin Vega's like you see hanging from ceilings at a 45 degree angle in dance bars can also sound almost as good. They get that sparkley high mid range plus low mid punch that I need, and this guy in the video needs to. It's about the mids and high mids, ... not the bass or treble.
Yeah, I'd love to see the plans for the speakers. I like music and Thomas has a philosophy similar to mine: musical music. There has to be a flow to it, like a water fall. Its all in harmony. Edgy treble is not my friend. I like smoooth high end reproduction, tight base with some resonance, and mid-range that gives real life to finely recorded vocals. If these speakers deliver that, wow, I'd love to build a pair. They look totally radical, but sound is the main thing by a huge margin. That's why I hesitate to DIY speaker. No sound test :) But like Thomas, I will listen for a solid two hours or longer when I can. If he says these deliver, that's good enough for me. Schematics and parts cost, please. Please?
Are you able to provide some details for the turntable? I’m interested in making my own too :) Seems like he has some sort of motor controller with platter speed feedback through that tacho sensor? Thanks!
I'm sure it takes a lot of time designing and making your own cabinets. Good drive untis aren't cheap either. I plan to make my own one day. I've already made the bases (concrete slabs weighing 47Kg each) with 4 metal spikes into floor (carpet above). Then bitumen-backed roofing felt stuck onto the concrete with bitumen paint, then stainless steel sheet over that with a mirror finish to look nice. I can at anytime with this try different materials under the speaker. It has made significant improvements to the sound. Note the speaker doesn't need to be spiked. It just sits flush on it's round feeet. Spiking is only useful for stabilising a speaker, it's not the best way to transfer movement or vibrations. A sledgehammer doesn't have a point does it?
I really appreciate your reply and enjoy very much your videos. Wouldn’t it be much more fun if he created a diy video in 20 parts. He would make an enormous amount of money from UA-cam.
nope, not yet. i plan to this summer, even though my wife would find that really really boring. oh i do have a number of questions for you since i am planning a lot of upgrades in the coming year, will post that later.
This is amazing !!! A follow up is really needed ? Does he have a website ? Upgrades ? Power conditioner ? Better cartridge ?... This is a kind of project that gets me going. I love fun in my system, I prefer headphones for details. Very very nice video. Man you must definitely bring your gear to test and help him to elevate that system. Thanks for the video !
Thanks, I have not heard from him for a while. He was planning to start a business with it last I heard from him. Maybe I will do a follow up video one day.
Thomas, do you have any other outlets for communication. I build some high end audio gear myself and I would be very interested in getting some more information about the build featured here. As a side note, keep up the good work.
Looks beautiful, was there any porting done between the upper drivers & the extended vertical tubes? I see they were screwed together, but do you know if there was a ported opening between those and the extended tubes (possibly leading towards a bassier sound if it was then open to the rest of the lower enclosure) ? Love all the lessons/insights I get from your channel
I think Steve could make it even higher end looking?..by using circular horns,and somehow on top of the speakers? Tubes!..for any adjustments. Make the top of the speakers glow warm in a city at night look..and with a point. My 2 cents.
I want to build floorstanding speakers with 15 inch acoustic elegance TD15M woofers, Aurum Cantus G1 tweeeters, 2.2kHz Linkwitz Riley 4th order crossover with copper foil inductors and polypropylene capacitors, and a slot vented enclosure tuned at 45 Hz. I would call them TLDR15 because the sound is so good that it’s TLDR after you describe the sound quality in as many words and 15 because it has a 15 inch woofer.
So, something other than the Cables... The Turntable is incredible! do there exist more Photos or eventually a Video from the Building Process? The Stand alone makes me drool! Your FRriend must be really proud of what he achieved! Especially the Turntable is a Design that i like alot. I am building Turntables too, and for me it is very hard to find a Design that is not as common as a Pro-Ject Genie, and a Piece of square Wood with Platter and Tonearm also doesn`t make me happy at all. But your Friend has found a Design you do not see everytime when you google "Design Turntable, and for this i appreciate his Form and Idea very much!
Thanks, sadly there will not be a video on the building process because it would mean I have to travel to his factory to film him making it. That thing is very heavy. He recently built another one and slowly tweaking it to be better.
What a magnificent looking system. I'm guessing the owner is an electrical engineer. Well done regardless. so can you please share what drivers are used?
Well considering how much High end audio costs, if you had the knowledge...you could build the space and buy machinery and components and come out even or better for the experience and pride of tailoring and creating your own speakers. It certainly would be a trial and error with multiple stages to be sure. I think though that it may take Audiophile's obsessive nature to another level and may also not be healthy to a already detail oriented subset of human being...lol
Last week I had a chance to listen to a $30K set of B&W 800D3 with Macintosh amps. Just so I can establish a baseline of what good speaker suppose to sound like and I was not impressed, I had them play Muddy Waters Mannish boy and Phill Collins, which I listen to all the time and it sounded way more complete in my Audi then in the Listening room. More Money does not mean better sound. I just bought all the drivers to make a Klipsch KLF 30 Clone. Dual 12" woofers! 😁
These look amazing! I am considering building my own speakers mainly because I have the tools and skills to do so and there are outstanding drivers, and plans for cross overs out there for one whom may be interested. Question I trust your listening being you are very passionate of high end stereo. Does your friend sell or offer build plans of these speakers?
I like the look of your system that much Im half way though building a copy of your speakers. For the bass I'm using a Dayton Audio RSS315HO-4 12" Reference HO Subwoofer. its one heck of a bass driver. Anyway the question I would like to ask. Did you have the aluminium feet and the ajustment knobs make? or did you purchase them? If bought please could you send me the link? Thanks. Tony. UK
Hi, I have not seen this friend for many months. From what i understood, he built everything himself. He works with Metal so he knows how to built everything. If I do see him, i will ask him. Thanks for your comment.
Great suggestion, could make a series of video step by step show casing the process. To be honest, I will not have the time but will definitely suggest it to him the next speaker he make to film himself. Thanks for the comment.
(Asking very nicely) May we please have a list of parts and approximate dimensions? Thanks for the video Thomas and thanks to your friend for letting you do this for us!
These DIY speakers would be more preferable to any B&W "in your face" speakers. Any regrets using a Peerless woofer (optimized for very low frequencies) and the Dayton Audio/AMT tweeter? The Scanspeak bass/mid or mid driver is definitely high end...tweeter and woofer closer to mid-fi IMO. Very high end tweeters and woofers are expensive, however, so I an understand the driver choices. Would you be willing to share any info about cabinet material/design or crossover topology and components used? Anyway you look at this, well done and good on the builder to make his vision a reality! Face it, narrator, you are comparing DIY speakers that are in a different class when you compare them with commercially built units that cost in the 5-10x (rough range) whatever these lovely home-brew ones cost to make! Commercially built loudspeakers really are marked up to this extent above what they cost to build. The builder here clearly has some engineering background and mechanical know how. Very nice to see. Please try to back off on the attempts to quantify everything in percentages. I have an audiophile guru friend who tries to do the same. I guess that it makes sense when trying to justify relative costs but it seems a little pretentious to do so extensively.
He looked into it, however, the company where he gets his stuff told him to move up the next level, he has to pay 10x the price. I think they sound great though, really detail and not harsh. He can upgrade to get more detail but I think that is not what he wants.
@@ThomasAndStereo ok i see what you mean. Could you recommend some good amplification for MA gx200. Also struggling with the bass . I think i need room treatment. Your reviews are awesome very honest and in depth keep up the hard work. Thanks for your reply.
Thanks for your reply. Sorry i didn't clarify the bass issue. It's not that i don't have enough bass with the M A gold 200 i have too much bass in my room. The room is 6 x 4m but ceiling is low. Maybe i need room treatment but that sort of stuff is out of my league.
i get a lot of enjoyment watching this kind of DIY projects than some fancy big name speakers that cost 50 or even 100K .
WISH you played some music . hope they sound as great as they look .
I'm more old school , but these components look fantastic. Beautiful.
That system is absolutely beautiful. I could only dream of owning a system of that calibur. All I can say is WOW!
Love the overall appearance. The orange, the columns and all that machined metal give it a solid, industrial look.
Very nice build! Thanks Thomas and owner for the share!
Very cool looking set up 👍🏻
One of a kind. Very impressive!
Man! I love the design. I noticed that each driver has its own dedicated enclosure. Given they have a good crossover, I imagine that the separate enclosures does much for the sound as well. Very Inspiring!
Big respect for this build. Looks great and certainly has lots of sound good design elements.
Just wow! I love the look of these, and it happens to be my favorite color which is a bonus. Your friend could accomplish great things if he decided to manufacture his own speakers and bring them to the masses. I'd be his first customer! Great video and thanks!
Thanks for the comment, If you are montreal, you can go buy it off him! You'll tget the first edition :)
I Love It!! Thanks for showing us!!
Awesome speakers, and turntable! The system looks like an exhibit from the art museum!
Nicely put
bauhaus movement
Amazing work. It’s cool that your giving the creator this attention. I’m sure it makes him proud.
Some people have huge talent. Amazing.
looks delicious.... audiophile-wise. Simply WOW!!!
Yeah, I like the look.
Interesting video. Thanks
I know this is an old video bu these DIY speakers look amazing! Design and functionality. I want to make a pair like this.
awesome color
Great stuff! I think this is the way to go if you want really the best quality of your component!
I have the same 10 inch Peerless driver (plus a Peerless 10 Inch passive) in my sub. I love them as so accurate.
Ah, you build speakers too?
I have to say I did not. I bought them pre made by an electronic and accoustic engineer. I have it set up and it measures in room at 17 hz (-3db). 500w a/b amp. High level inputs make a real improvement 2 channel integration. I am 2.1 channel only. Tube based. I underpin my ProAc's as I, like your good self, love real unflustered bass extension. 😀
Impressive, 17 hz is incredible. I need to try Proac speakers, heard many good things about that.
Very impressive,! would love to hear it in person! I love anyone who takes time and passion to build great sounding speakers and as you mentioned, bass forms a great starting point as most floor standing speakers don't provide you the punch unless you do some tweaking or adding DSP etc. Love the workmanship on these speakers. They do look like Scan speakers and the subwoofer used here could be Dayton Audio but I could be wrong. Nice work mate, thanks for sharing your video!
I love that his system sounds so good with human gauge cables
The orange is beautiful
Impressive DIYer ...
Thank you a lot !!!
wonderful system ! i like so much the concept of segregating drivers each in their own cabinet. The colour is debatable ... i like piano black usually ... i like in general speakers that disappear not only sonically but also visually. You upload excellent videos indeed ... thank you very much for this. Kind regards, gino
It looks awesome, I wish I could listen to them.
Yeah, I did posted the sound demo in another video.
Thomas those are really nice speakers way to go with that guy building them, they look great and they must sound great he's got some nice equipment there!!!! but he still spend that awful lot of money to get there!!!! for most of us it's not the way to go, but kudos to that guy for matching up his equipment properly!!!!😎
Impressive speakers
Yeah, , its too bad the music clip does not do it justice
Like the colour..and his effort..canr say about the sound until I hear it..but like..if he release a video showing the steps..the reason of chossing..wud be great inspiration to lot of people.. I like the look..so thumbs up for him!..yeah..
yeah, I thought about that but just would not have the time to do it. Thanks for the thumbs up.
Amazing. I'll take two please.
Ribbon tweeters are always awesome.
Those were AMT not ribbon.
Hehe,... Danish Units ;-) Had the same units in another body,.... Super sound, and fun designing your own speaker.
Thank for for showcasing this super smart design with each speaker in it's own case. Who would have the balls to do that? This guy did. The guy that made them. ...and I can just look at this system, like I can a guitar, and just tell if it sounds good or not. I am in love with this concept, especially the mid-range speakers mounted in those long tubes. That is so impactful. And each speaker container has only that speaker inside of it and that lets it do its own thing. I wonder if these have some kind of cross-over system. Active Cross-over systems can be awesome for clarity and less distortion,, but can also make it loose some of its magic. For this system, ... I'd have to try it all 3 ways, (active x-over, passive x-over, and no cross=over, but I think with an active crossover it could really be awesome, especially a 3 way active cross over. This video is so inspiring and it has inspired me to think a lot bigger than I was thinking. Still, ...this is a difficult and long term project. I need some better sound now, quickly, and on the cheap. I am going to by some old passive speakers, and a cheap 20w stereo power amp, with bluetooth, mp3, usb, etc., and try to get by until I can try to copy something like this guy did. Awesome speaker concept with each speaker in its own cabinet, and each cabinet maximized for that speaker and its frequencies. This is an awesome and inspiring video. Thanks. Now go build it!!!!
I’m a diy freak myself and those are some impressive speakers. In build especially, special emphasis put on the mid drivers and their beautiful. I’d be happy to specially design a set of speakers for you. Can’t really put it together though don’t have the materials, space or the cash on hand being a teen.
Thanks, i will let him know incase he is interested and get back to you if he is.
I run two amps..one for top end running some celestions and a pa amp running two 12,s dual voice coil wired to 8ohm bridged mode just for bass cut off around 50hz.with a dsp. ..it's a cheap way to get a lot of power while getting a clean sound
That Audio Research SP8 that you have there is a thin sounding tube preamp.i got rid of all my ARC stuff in the 90's,because most of it sounded like solid state.
And again very good speakers with (or because of?) Scan Speak drivers, except for the tweeter. Unfortunately Scan Speak makes no air motion transformers. But their best dome tweeters challenge all ribbons and AMTs.
I make speakers as a hobby, but I don't do it just to make speakers, I do speaker concept research with time aligned 2-way drivers (plus non time aligned woofer in some speakers). One concept is just like the KEF Uni Q and I bought a pair of "guitar" 8"drivers (stiff suspension) and with a 2" voice coil. And I bought a pair of 1.5" diam Car tweeters (1" soft domes) and set them inside the voice coil tube of the 8" drivers. They are point source and have the "headphones effect" med is good cos the paper cones are thin but bass is lacking (they are in bookshelf enclosures). And they are pure point source cos the bass port is also point source. It surrounds the driver which is set 1.5 mm above the speaker hole and there is a 2" deep tube inside the speaker box, around the hole (like over an 8" diam port). The lack of bass is only cos of the drivers and the bookshelf boxes. A bad combination, and one day I might make larger enclosures with an extra 8" woofer or just run them with a sub or woofers in separate boxes. This concept is difficult cos it's hard to find drivers that fit inside. And it is more expensive than my next concept, which solves the availability problem as well.
This concept is a 4" full range driver with a hole drilled through it and another tiny FR driver is mounted at the back of the 4" FR driver. The tiny driver is stripped of it's cone and a thin stick is glued (perpendicular to it) and it pokes through the hole I drilled in the 4" FR driver. And it pokes out the front till it is at time align position with the 4" driver cone. Then a tiny foil "tizzer" is glued to the end of the stick. This makes a FR driver "sting" like a full-on tweeter, high treble from the tiny "tizzer" makes the treble really strong compared to my cheap 4" FR driver (by itself). I have them combined with a woofer under (the best speakers I ever made). ua-cam.com/video/J4OUZhban_4/v-deo.html They are also really cheap to make and (I reckon) sound even better than tweeters. But you have to be careful with the size of the tiny "tizzer". I want to experiment with different "tizzer" materials as well. The 4" drivers are also "float mounted" like with the 8" drivers in my last concept.
I have another concept I started on is a pair of drum speakers (essentially a planar speaker). I'm making them out of tambourines with a stripped down FR driver driving it (with a slightly extended voice coil tube) and the same coaxial setup on the back of the driver with the extra tiny stripped down driver, the stick and the "tizzer". You also have to dampen the drum with cloth stuff around the edge. The idea is to get that "electrostatic speaker" sound with coil speakers. I did an experiment and held a stripped down speaker driven stick onto a drum and the bass was surprisingly intense. Cos the drum flexes, it's like a driver in an open baffle (not like an open driver by itself). The edges don't move as much as the center of the drum, and you get a nice warm voice sound without an enclosure (unlike an open driver).
And with an extra woofer it would sound amazing I reckon. And you don't need much voice content in the woofer to get a solid strong voice sound (making it more point source) and the open sound of the planar speaker as well. It goes down way lower than an open FR driver (witch I have also experimented on). But straight open drivers lack warmth really badly and are hardly much different to tweeters in sound (the sound is so "thin"). You are relying on the woofer for most of the voice sound so drivers can never be point source and completely open. The only way is the drum speaker.
But now I just have them raised a bit from the speaker hole (instead of totally open) for a more open sound than normally mounted (while retaining the warmth). But this is difficult and the floating distance is ridiculously critical for good (or even acceptable) sound. The planar speaker would not only be completely open but also way more free of resonances that make float mounting drivers such a challenge. And float mounting only sounds partially open (but way more airy than standard mounting). I think it's a much nicer sound, and it's the main reason I did the concentric bass port in my first concept. The 1.5 mm high float mounting sounds way different than standard mounting on my 8" coaxials (1st concept). It's a more open sound and the drum speaker will take the open sound to the next level.
wow, thanks for sharing your experience, now that is true diy.
@@ThomasAndStereo Thanks, I really like the look of those bass drivers and bass enclosures. I want to make some bass enclosures that size soon. I got some 10" bass drivers but they are really high power ones, maybe not enough power to drive them. I only have 200 w a side. lol The drivers are really heavy and with a thick rubber surround and they are so stiff you can't even "pump" them with your hands. lol
My system sounds awesome and I spent maybe $500. the key is Tri_amped active cross-over with an equalizer. Wow. I'm amazed.
Speakers that are musical. Finally someone who gets it. Cerwin Vega's, like the 12" or 15" 3-way home speakers cranked up to 10 on a clean sparkly high end amplifier, ...that is the best sound I have ever heard. And even commercial grade Cerwin Vega's like you see hanging from ceilings at a 45 degree angle in dance bars can also sound almost as good. They get that sparkley high mid range plus low mid punch that I need, and this guy in the video needs to. It's about the mids and high mids, ... not the bass or treble.
Very different looking indeed....
This is closer to what I have in my car. I use klh in my home.
Share the plans for the speakers, drivers used, internal bracing...even sell the plans online.
Yeah, I'd love to see the plans for the speakers. I like music and Thomas has a philosophy similar to mine: musical music. There has to be a flow to it, like a water fall. Its all in harmony. Edgy treble is not my friend. I like smoooth high end reproduction, tight base with some resonance, and mid-range that gives real life to finely recorded vocals. If these speakers deliver that, wow, I'd love to build a pair. They look totally radical, but sound is the main thing by a huge margin. That's why I hesitate to DIY speaker. No sound test :) But like Thomas, I will listen for a solid two hours or longer when I can. If he says these deliver, that's good enough for me. Schematics and parts cost, please. Please?
Absolutely beautiful! Wow. Easily the most unique professional looking DIY! But dude, all that and you didn’t play them?!?!
Sure, usually I keep my sound demo separately
ua-cam.com/video/v2d4HXGjC00/v-deo.html
Daam cool speaker..
More Diy please!
Are you able to provide some details for the turntable? I’m interested in making my own too :) Seems like he has some sort of motor controller with platter speed feedback through that tacho sensor?
Thanks!
I'm sure it takes a lot of time designing and making your own cabinets. Good drive untis aren't cheap either. I plan to make my own one day. I've already made the bases (concrete slabs weighing 47Kg each) with 4 metal spikes into floor (carpet above). Then bitumen-backed roofing felt stuck onto the concrete with bitumen paint, then stainless steel sheet over that with a mirror finish to look nice. I can at anytime with this try different materials under the speaker. It has made significant improvements to the sound. Note the speaker doesn't need to be spiked. It just sits flush on it's round feeet. Spiking is only useful for stabilising a speaker, it's not the best way to transfer movement or vibrations. A sledgehammer doesn't have a point does it?
He should go active with a MiniDSP or a Deqx. Good choice of midrange, that Revelator is very good without being ultra-expensive.
nice
I really appreciate your reply and enjoy very much your videos. Wouldn’t it be much more fun if he created a diy video in 20 parts. He would make an enormous amount of money from UA-cam.
Ah, I did tell him he should make some videos on how he built them. I guess he is too camera shy.
your channel keeps getting better and better. i am still waiting for the adelphi videos though. hehe
Ah, the Adelphi will be a while, its not much, just me walking around the mall. Have you ever been there?
nope, not yet. i plan to this summer, even though my wife would find that really really boring. oh i do have a number of questions for you since i am planning a lot of upgrades in the coming year, will post that later.
This is amazing !!! A follow up is really needed ?
Does he have a website ?
Upgrades ? Power conditioner ? Better cartridge ?...
This is a kind of project that gets me going. I love fun in my system, I prefer headphones for details.
Very very nice video.
Man you must definitely bring your gear to test and help him to elevate that system.
Thanks for the video !
Thanks, I have not heard from him for a while. He was planning to start a business with it last I heard from him. Maybe I will do a follow up video one day.
@@ThomasAndStereo The industrial part in the speaker is amazing. It definitly push the envelope for DIY.
Thomas, do you have any other outlets for communication. I build some high end audio gear myself and I would be very interested in getting some more information about the build featured here. As a side note, keep up the good work.
Email me at turbotan@gmail.com. Let me see how I can get you in touch with the builder.
Many of us have speaker building as our main hobby!
Congrats, you can get so much for little budget
Looks beautiful, was there any porting done between the upper drivers & the extended vertical tubes? I see they were screwed together, but do you know if there was a ported opening between those and the extended tubes (possibly leading towards a bassier sound if it was then open to the rest of the lower enclosure) ? Love all the lessons/insights I get from your channel
Sorry I don't know.
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I think Steve could make it even higher end looking?..by using circular horns,and somehow on top of the speakers? Tubes!..for any adjustments. Make the top of the speakers glow warm in a city at night look..and with a point. My 2 cents.
The nagoaka is an amazing cart it used to cost $74
I want to build floorstanding speakers with 15 inch acoustic elegance TD15M woofers, Aurum Cantus G1 tweeeters, 2.2kHz Linkwitz Riley 4th order crossover with copper foil inductors and polypropylene capacitors, and a slot vented enclosure tuned at 45 Hz. I would call them TLDR15 because the sound is so good that it’s TLDR after you describe the sound quality in as many words and 15 because it has a 15 inch woofer.
Orange speakers sound better like red cars go faster
Hi Thomas , you dont have a listening demo on this diy speakers? I really love to hear it . Thanks for all the effort making videos
Your welcome, I do have a sound clip but recording is so so.
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So, something other than the Cables... The Turntable is incredible! do there exist more Photos or eventually a Video from the Building Process? The Stand alone makes me drool!
Your FRriend must be really proud of what he achieved! Especially the Turntable is a Design that i like alot. I am building Turntables too, and for me it is very hard to find a Design that is not as common as a Pro-Ject Genie, and a Piece of square Wood with Platter and Tonearm also doesn`t make me happy at all. But your Friend has found a Design you do not see everytime when you google "Design Turntable, and for this i appreciate his Form and Idea very much!
Thanks, sadly there will not be a video on the building process because it would mean I have to travel to his factory to film him making it. That thing is very heavy. He recently built another one and slowly tweaking it to be better.
What a magnificent looking system. I'm guessing the owner is an electrical engineer. Well done regardless. so can you please share what drivers are used?
Thanks, I have not seen him for a while but I remember he bought the parts from Solen.
is there a list of components ? would be awsome ;D
If I had access to 3D CAD programs and CNC machinery would build all kinds of high end speakers for myself.
Well considering how much High end audio costs, if you had the knowledge...you could build the space and buy machinery and components and come out even or better for the experience and pride of tailoring and creating your own speakers. It certainly would be a trial and error with multiple stages to be sure. I think though that it may take Audiophile's obsessive nature to another level and may also not be healthy to a already detail oriented subset of human being...lol
Thomas, Did he ever start a business with these and do can you do a comparison review? Thanks
Last week I had a chance to listen to a $30K set of B&W 800D3 with Macintosh amps. Just so I can establish a baseline of what good speaker suppose to sound like and I was not impressed, I had them play Muddy Waters Mannish boy and Phill Collins, which I listen to all the time and it sounded way more complete in my Audi then in the Listening room. More Money does not mean better sound. I just bought all the drivers to make a Klipsch KLF 30 Clone. Dual 12" woofers! 😁
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These look amazing! I am considering building my own speakers mainly because I have the tools and skills to do so and there are outstanding drivers, and plans for cross overs out there for one whom may be interested. Question I trust your listening being you are very passionate of high end stereo. Does your friend sell or offer build plans of these speakers?
Yeah,I listen to high end and entry level, whatever that is interesting. For these speakers, he is planning to start a company and sell them soon.
I like the look of your system that much Im half way though building a copy of your speakers. For the bass I'm using a Dayton Audio RSS315HO-4 12" Reference HO Subwoofer. its one heck of a bass driver. Anyway the question I would like to ask. Did you have the aluminium feet and the ajustment knobs make? or did you purchase them? If bought please could you send me the link? Thanks. Tony. UK
Hi, I have not seen this friend for many months. From what i understood, he built everything himself. He works with Metal so he knows how to built everything. If I do see him, i will ask him. Thanks for your comment.
Hi Thomas, what do you think of the Tannoy Revolution XT 8F
Loudspeaker, have you every heard them. Thanks again for the video.
That is one speaker high on my list to audition. Heard many good things about it.
You should do a video that explains how he built it and the material he use.
Great suggestion, could make a series of video step by step show casing the process. To be honest, I will not have the time but will definitely suggest it to him the next speaker he make to film himself. Thanks for the comment.
The woofer looks like it's hi-excursion, is the spkr system in full range or Tri amp?
its full range.
For the enclosure it doesn't really matter what the material is.
@@ThomasAndStereo Great Idea! I would LOVE to see how he does builds especially if It is anything close to these!
B&w speakers Built for small and quiet room listener. The Only b&w nautilus ( snail shape) Four ways speaker. But....
Can’t tell the bass driver but the mid looks like ScanSpeak Revelator and the tweeter a folded ribbon from Mundorf
Is the midrange driver in open back enclosure? Any possibility to buy data of the drivers and crossovers?
He is starting a company actually. If you happen to be in Montreal, you will see him at the Montreal audio show.
That is fucking awesome....
check out the mp200 cart its amazing
How about drivers and crossover points ?
(Asking very nicely) May we please have a list of parts and approximate dimensions? Thanks for the video Thomas and thanks to your friend for letting you do this for us!
Let me ask him when I see him, I have not seen him for a while, in a few weeks.
@@ThomasAndStereo Thank you so very much! They are so beautiful!
omg friend you have main electric connector group from comming to wall ! you must chance this imeditly !
He build a good one actually.
How much to build the speakers? Looks beautiful.
I don't know but in the thousands.
More DIY if possible please..
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Let us hear that audio masterpiece
Link to the music video
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Have you ever had the opportunity to listen to Linkwitz speakers?
very nice serup & sweet choice of colors ! What 10" woofer did he use ? is this a passive or active crossover system ?
thanks, i know its passive but don't know what kind of woofers, have to ask him.
They look like seas woofers...
Have you asked him what woofers he used ?
This is no doubt a scan speak driver, probably the 26w 4558T00
Cuild you please share what kind og spikes is used for the speakers and the rack? Im lokking for something similar😉👍
it is all custom made by him, 3/8 - 16 cup scrue spikes , 3 inch long with alluminum dicapling pods at the end.
Thomas & Stereo Cool! Thank you!!
Looks amazing but I really think you should use a better power strip.
Thanks, He built one shortly after I posted up this video.
I have the same thing in my bathroom.
The power bar?
ahahahahah yeah not even that!
What kind of turntable is that and where did you find it?
he built it himself, except the cartridge and tone arm.
These DIY speakers would be more preferable to any B&W "in your face" speakers.
Any regrets using a Peerless woofer (optimized for very low frequencies) and the Dayton Audio/AMT tweeter? The Scanspeak bass/mid or mid driver is definitely high end...tweeter and woofer closer to mid-fi IMO. Very high end tweeters and woofers are expensive, however, so I an understand the driver choices.
Would you be willing to share any info about cabinet material/design or crossover topology and components used?
Anyway you look at this, well done and good on the builder to make his vision a reality!
Face it, narrator, you are comparing DIY speakers that are in a different class when you compare them with commercially built units that cost in the 5-10x (rough range) whatever these lovely home-brew ones cost to make!
Commercially built loudspeakers really are marked up to this extent above what they cost to build. The builder here clearly has some engineering background and mechanical know how. Very nice to see.
Please try to back off on the attempts to quantify everything in percentages. I have an audiophile guru friend who tries to do the same. I guess that it makes sense when trying to justify relative costs but it seems a little pretentious to do so extensively.
Thanks for the comment, I have not seen him like for a very long time. Last I heard he wants to start a company to sell his product.
I need to know how he build this^^
can we buy a complete system in India or how it would be possible to buy from India, please suggest
It's not possible. The shipping from Canada to India alone probably will cost you $1k.
lost those tweeters man... thats a cool system dude. those air motion / ribbion tweeters are the shiet!
He looked into it, however, the company where he gets his stuff told him to move up the next level, he has to pay 10x the price. I think they sound great though, really detail and not harsh. He can upgrade to get more detail but I think that is not what he wants.
What did he use! I need inspiration. I'm trying to build my own.
I don't know, I will have to ask him when I see him
Looks like scan-speak sub and mid and for the tweeter i'm thinking Fountek (not sure, or maybe Dayton)
Can we have build plans? :)
He is thinking about what to do at this point, maybe he will make videos on the built process, don't know yet.
Thomas & Stereo that would be awesome!
Hi, i didn't know you own the M A gx300. Have you done a review on them? Those DIY speakers look awesome.
No, there is no point since no one can buy it.
@@ThomasAndStereo ok i see what you mean. Could you recommend some good amplification for MA gx200. Also struggling with the bass . I think i need room treatment.
Your reviews are awesome very honest and in depth keep up the hard work.
Thanks for your reply.
@@naveedhussain3714 It does not have a lot of bass even with a strong power amp, if you need more bass, add a sub.
Thanks for your reply. Sorry i didn't clarify the bass issue. It's not that i don't have enough bass with the M A gold 200 i have too much bass in my room. The room is 6 x 4m but ceiling is low. Maybe i need room treatment but that sort of stuff is out of my league.
Dude I cannot lift this thing alone! Lol ya
Can please play these speakers. Like to listen
I did, there is a sound demo in another video.
@@ThomasAndStereo ok. Thank you. Will check it out