THE BEST BUDGET SOUND SYSTEM - TRANSMISSION LINE MAGIC! - HOW TO.
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**Transmission lines rely heavily on the use of damping materials throughout the line, i know, thats not the point of this video**.
**i also know you can get standing waves across the line.
*I know that song doesnt play down to 25hz, the line plays down to about 25hz in that room*
This is intended as a gateway, not a comprehensive guide.
link to full wave lengths:
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Link to square inch calculator:
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That was the fastest I have ever clicked on a video in my life
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This makes me so very happy thankyou everyone!
fooken smashed it mate this was a fun build!
Awh man thankyou! It was fun! I really enjoyed it!
i used to watch you ages ago 😂 you’re why i have 2 12” subs in my bedroom at the moment 😅
This UA-cam channel is f***ing awesome! You’re f***ing brilliant and hilarious!
Thankyou! I've subscribed to yours too, but ill need subtitles 🤣
didn't think i'd see you here
I subscribed because this guy is honest above all, fun to watch and encouraging to people!
Its what its all about man, thankyou for your kind words!
Adam I do believe you’ve found your “thing”. Excellent videos mate, very entertaining, and right up my straße. keep them coming.
David.
I seem to have! I love it too!
I dunno whay yt have done to the algorithm but I've been getting smaller creators in my feed and i am down for it. Great video. Got yourself another sub
You were mentioning the clarity of "the thumb on the E string". That's what I love about T-lines, the clarity of the bass. It's usually very natural, not boomy, more realistic when listening to acoustic instruments.
I have a pair I built from a kit, but to be honest I've never built another pair because I was thinking I had to hold to all the complicated shit to get a pair that sounded decent.
Well to hell with that, I'm going to build a pair using the basics. Thanks for sharing this.
Oh also, try throwing some dampening material in there and the bass won't fall off as quickly.
Proper crossover networks would make these next level. GREAT WORK!😊
And some stuffing/damping.
You got that right! Spend some more quid, whatever a quid is.
@@scottyelectron7934 it's another name for the British pound, it just sounds better than saying "give me a pound"
The intro hitting the table whit your head 😂😂😂😂 gets me every time fucking hell mate 😂😂😂
Haha im glad. The secret is to have loose stuff on the bench so it rattles, rather than a forceful concussion
Probably one of the most entertaining and informational videos I’ve seen on speakers/audio in a while
Awwh thankyou!
I was just trying to find a tutorial on how to install a car stereo when I came across your channel! You're stuff is great! Been watching your bass van build and digging it.
Thankyou man! Thats a long ass project that one!
even from Romania 🇹🇩 they follow you and watch your videos.. the passion for sound 🔊, projects, etc. unites us all .. 😉
Keep at it. You have a fun and energetic way of explaining stuff. Other people can do bigger better fancier builds, but they don't explain what they are doing, you are explaining and teaching when you do it.
Will do! A lot of it is overly complicated my people trying to look cool, its not actually that hard a lot of it.
Fantastic stuff and great timing for me too! I've just redone my garage system this weekend and replaced my old Pioneer headunit with the same Aiyima amplifier running some DLS components and a JL 12W3 off a dewalt battery. So shocked at how well and loud the thing sounds! I was gifted a Yamaha HS8 bass driver ages ago (so obliged to do something with it) and not having any T/S parameters never knew what to do with it except maybe transmission line. I was always put off by most of the comments posted in forums etc about the complexity and my ability to get it right, but this has re-inspired me. I'll be playing with speakers again this weekend, thanks.
mate so happy to have found ur channel, this is the type of OG youtube content we need
Thankyou man, 13 years of this stuff and im so glad people like it!
Adam is the colin Furze of Audio, I watched 2 videos and subscribedas this is genious and I really fancy using my acceptable woodwork skills and upgrade my absolutely non existent audio skills to build myself a wonderful gardon bluetooth speaker!
Would be great if you could do a v2 of this vid going a bit more in depth on the build process and lessons learned from v1 and comments n such. Thanks, fun vid got a sub.
Oh maybe a reuse car speakers to desktop pc speakers would be neat, the cheapest speakers are the ones you already got laying around 😉
I like the energy you give off
Well dang, this was fun! You know you've done something right when the sub isn't moving, but the listening room is!
Coupling at its finest 👌
Joining you at 28k. Just watched your Temu boombox video, and clicked on this straight away. Terrific video. These look, and as far as UA-cam sound allows, sound amazing. Brilliant stuff
NO WAY THAT'S ME!!!!!!!
(just to explain my absence: I clicked on this video as soon as it came out but didn't watch the whole thing because I didn't have time and I hoped I'd be able to get to it soon enough, but a fuck ton of stuff came up, because end of the school year and all that, so I really couldn't until now. What a shame. I hope the money goes to someone who can use it really well)
I realize I may have been just a couple hours late. Oh well, gonna do it anyways.
You never know he may give you till midnight! It doesn't say what time he uploaded it and he didn't give a time to respond by he just said 48 hours. 🤓
@@julssdee no, 48 hours is 48 hours, and to be fair, I most likely wouldn't be able to finish the video quickly enough anyways, but since I'm doing it with my own money now, I can take more time and put much more effort into it.
Yes mate!! You are going the right way!! I am proud actually of you!! Go on!
Haha, its flying now hans! Now just to try and keep it interesting!
Awesome build there Adam! 😃
Love the way you said "Jesus!" and the door opened to reveal the young fella!
And your disgust at the broken saw was most entertaining.
Haha thankyou. I was fuming!
As a person who's built and modified my own sound equipment i 100% agree with you. Doing it yourself not only saves you money and is fun and educational but if you do it right the results can really impress you and be better than pre-made sound equipment that is much more expensive. Even if you use cheap equipment that doesn't mean it's bad at all! You'd be surprised how good cheap equipment has gotten. Definitely recommend more people try this. It's a fun & educational hobby!
man the way you made this far more intresting than i was expecting keep the content coming idc what u make ill watch
TL speakerboxes are absolute kicking in the low end ,i've got 2 from T+A and there's no need for a subwoofer ,great guy ,great build, great kid ,great wifey ,great cat...what else....subbed 😄👍
South African Audiophile here Would love to build this!!!!
I love the way you get audio enthusiast come up there lazy asses and do what you explain in this video. You got me mate. Greetings from your overseas neighbor the Netherlands 😊
@@dinantdekruijff4735 i actually live 1 mile from the port to the netherlands 🤣
have been waiting long for this video, and it has finaly come, thanks Adam!!!🤩
Amazing job on those speakers. I can tell the sub is doing work since my sub was picking up the low notes that the sub in that video was playing. Thats impressive. This inspires me to do my own project. i hope to see more of you man
You will!
@@PacmanBasshead amazing I can’t wait
never have I subscribed so fast. Now I want to build one for a powerful 12" sub for ht. Thank you.
Thank you for your videos!
I've watched a few and i like your style, no surprise your channel is growing at a faster pace now.
Had and old JVC stereo that spent to much time in a garagem with a big opening above the door and now it sounded horrible.
Brought it home, opened one of the speaker enclousures and the speaker was all dry and broken.
I don't have much money allocated to projects and what not, but I do have a "chinese store" (they are every where here in portugal), and managed to find a pair of car speakers the same size.
Box said 200w, but we all know that is full BS, but my stereo only outputs 40w, so i gave them a shot.
Now I have the stereo back to sounding decent and connected to my desktop pc instead of just headphones.
Thank you to inspiering me in doing this repair!
Love my transmission line box
Never heard it called that before
They work well for expensive speakers as well
Making your own speakers can be quite satisfying. My speakers each have one 15" woofer, two Philips AD0210 SQ4 dome Mid-Range drivers, and four Philips AD0160 /T8 dome tweeters. How long do they last you may wonder. I built the speakers back in 1976. The only eventual replacements were the outer foam rings of the woofers. The old rings had begun to turn to dust. But that only cost about $27 and an hours work per woofer.
I'm not as mad as I thought by comparison, when I yell obscenities to myself over such an inconvenience costing me time and an extra trip somewhere. Thanks bro.
watching this from portugal, really fun to watch MATE
just found you what you are doing is awesome. testing and building. loved the big jbl in the window. me and a buddy of mine call it geeking out on stereos. waddy kentucky usa says hello
Just discovered your channel, my new fav channel, superb, I love making stuff, awesome content
Thanks bro
Please do more speaker builds!
@@enrico81 haha. I will once the channel generates the money to cover them 😊
You are killing me 😂😂😂 with your crazy humor 😂😂 I will take the challenge and build a set.
Very cool speakers! Wish I had the skills to make them. They sound excellent
Subscribed despite the headbutt 😅 Love the details and raw self descriptions! Thank you for making this channel! 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
You are welcome! Glad to have you!
Greetings from Canada, eh!
Great videos and I love your enthusiasm and energy. Quite infectious. How about doing a video on actually designing and building a transmission line speaker system like this one? I am sure lots of us would love to see it and you have a great way of teaching. Looking forward to the next video mate!
@johnb1156 greetings, eh! It's certainly an idea but I think there are people out there that are far more qualified than myself for such a task, im certainly no leading expert on transmission lines and I wouldn't want to p155 people off be pretending to be 😊. There's plenty more content on the way, im just stuck on the latest project currently!
With much respect. I have seen some of those videos and tbh, after I still have no idea and want to get that 30 minutes or so of my life back.
I think you would be able to show and explain in simple enough terms for all of us to understand. So I’ll be watching your videos because they are damned good, and hoping one day to see a tutorial on transmission lines eh. 😊
13:57 I'd love to make something like that. I do small DIY stuff in my channel and planned on doing some small speaker projects in the future.
Instantly clicked when the video popped up on my recommended, wondered why i wasnt subbed lol. Would love to be in the next challenge!
Hell yeah man stick around there will be another as the channel grows
Absolutely love it...the Colin Furz of cheap Audio projects... Love this stuff. You have a new subscriber. Keep up the good work brother..👏🏾👍🏾
Small tip on the Panasonic tv you have in the workshop, go into the video options and turn overscan off, it will fit the picture properly to the screen :)
No way! Thankyou!
This video SOOO made me chuckle all the way through. Great job. 👍🏻
It all depends on where your shopping. I got a really good small sound system from walmart. It was 120w 3.1 channel system. It got a front left,right,center and a 200w sub. For anyone wanting a decent sound system good will is a great place to check. Same with some pawn shops. Alot of shops usually underprice home stereo/theater systems and overprice car subwoofers
Bloody amazing content, keep up the amazing work. 😄 so glad someone’s having fun with cheap speakers & subs and sharing it with the world, makes for great content🤣
Well done Adam.
More!
More home-brew builds please.
This was the first time someone on a video says "press the like button" and I immediately did! 🤣great video, keep it up, regards from Portugal
Thankyou!
I know a friend who could help me put together a music system like this, and you managed to inspire me to make one. 😄
Saw the thumbnail and immediately subbed. Good luck.
Bloody hell man, where have you been all this time? You are soo good. I wish you good luck, and I'm sure your Chanel will grow fast
1st video Ive seen from you and this video has me rolllling man. I'm down for the challenge!
I love your videos, I really enjoy watching you build fun things like these.
your the only channel i watch without adblocker enabled :)
I stumbled across your video clearly by happenstance. I've been an audio guy for decades now. How about doing a video where you compare one transmission line speaker (full range or sub) to a ported version of that same speaker, so we can tell if there's any performance benefit of either design.
@e-mailuser9811 potentially! This can however be done on computer 😊
I waited patiantly for this one!
Have to say, i partialy watched bits of one other video you made, and very quickly came to the conclusion you were... well, abit of a dose...
Sir, i owe you an apology. Your an absalute Fcukin Legend
Yah. 😉 I've been running a pair of DCM Timeframe 600's for years, I love the warm sound of T/L speakers 🥰 Nothin' like em!
They play everything so well!!
Well done on the 7k dude
Thankyou! Im very happy, its still shooting up though!
You have been Adam, you’re not wrong there. More vids please?
I agree with this a hundred percent. Build some similar TLines with an Tuning of around 60hz with a few different sets of speakers in (Speakers placed in the beginning of the line). and damn. These sound so good. Some Acoustic stuffing on the backwall of the line to prevent some unwanted reflections and you have it. an damn good sounding pair of speakers. Love your vids bro. Keep em up!
Hell yeah brother! Thankyou!
You are the undisputed master of run-on sentences. Well done; I had to replay it thrice at 75%.
PS. (That's not criticism; I'm just jealous.)
@@226SW40 haha thankyou, i dont even try, i tried to write jokes and gags but they suck!
I’d love to see some controlled frequency db testing to be able to see how the calculated frequencies vs actual output of the build. Haven’t built a T-Line for around 10 years, but this is the first time hearing about placing the speaker down the line to flatten response. When I calculated mine, I was assuming beginning of the wave started at the back of the speaker, so I always located my subs right at the beginning of the line. I hope that makes sense, and I’d love to experiment with that to see if the peak frequency shifts at all, or how much db you lose (if any) by flattening the curve and getting a broader response range.
Also I never thought to put tweeters in the T-Line, do they seem unaffected by being in the enclosure? Could be a nice space saver
Totally unbothered! Because the tweet is sealed, all the wave sees is a very minor bump in the woods surface which makes no difference what so ever to the response.
Love your Montage Tunes.
so glad this landed in my recommended
This is great stuff. Easiest to follow explanation I have seen.
Thankyou mate!
Very entertaining as ever, kinda worried about your dome long term, but hey that's your problem😆Keep on keeping on!
This video was great fun, I'd love to build speakers in the future.
Also you've got overscan turned on with your TV, the edges are being cut off for stupid old TV broadcast reasons. There's probably a mode setting somewhere on there to fix it.
All sorted dude, thankyou!
Having the speaker 1/3 of the way down the line does not "flatten the response" necessarily. You are cancelling the harmonics that cause you to only have 3x the fB as your range, so once you place your speaker 1/3 the way you can play higher.
HornResp is great, play with it
@@greenbassboosts8872 i have been, its fascinating!
Great video, you've got a subscription from me. I love the backyard budget build, I suppose it makes me feel this is something I could do myself.
With some decent stuffing, and absorbing treatment on the inside surfaces, it would be even better still! You could have lined the inside with cheap felt padding, and some pillow polyfill would get it done on the cheap.... but the cabinets are already closed :(
So this is what im now learning, what stuffing goes where 🫠. Its a minefield!
I have just subscribed to this channel, after seeing this.
I have always owned hi-end stereo separates and speakers, so this was an interesting watch. 👍🏼
High end stuff is amazing but you can absolutely recreate it with low end stuff. If you can send a good signal then you are laughing
@PacmanBasshead I agree, this is potentially going to spur me on to create my own floor standing speakers? This has my spider senses tingling... now, lets get down to looking at full range subs ect 😜
Thats what im talkin about,experimenting with sound is so much fun
Hey there, this is a great video! Could you please elaborate a bit more on how to calculate TLs?
Find out the full wave length of the frequency you need in inches, divide it by 4. This is your throat length.
Measure the moving area of your speaker and calculate it into sq inches, this is how many square inches you need in the throat.
Then build it 😊.
Love your videos man, definitely learned a lot in this one.
I subscribed just because u hit ur head in the intro 😅😅😅😅 dude is very informative n funny..
I would probably make the mains tuned just as low as they can go and just use a larger enclosure. Should be plenty loud and low. Getting the sub up above in the attic might help some too
Love your vids and i hope you become a big UA-camr soon in the future
Thankyou mate that's such a nice thing to say 😀
would love to be featured in your video I could easily release an video for you that is non copyrighted with music with my crazy 100w speaker! it does need some upgrades! as well would want to try to make an series to push that speaker to max. from cheap chineese speaker to hifi alibaba speaker :D
This guy Is the best entertainer out there
I'm totally up for this challenge wen it happens again
Thankyou! Good to know too!
You should put a plate of isolator below the speakers
Im so sorry i am late...but i love the kick of a smooth bass it gives a satisfaction for me as a sound lover...
Thats why i love most groove style music, though a clean system it gives you a 'feel'
I subscribed to you today, watched a few of your videos, and this is by far the best DIY cheap sound series i have ever seen! Keep up the good work mate!
Thanks man! Seriously appreciated!
Looking forward to more videos like this. I subscribed
Thankyou!
Oooo im trying this already have theese items in my basket 😎🎶
Hey Adam, i got a little "challenge" for you if you want. Can you make from a 12V Car radio, 2 Car speakers and a small subwoofer a Portable speaker? Because, i have all this laing around but i dont know how to make a good sounding speaker from it. i have the parts from my old " Helmfach anlage" (i dont know the english transition) the speaker and the amp has 500W. If you could make a video about it, i would appreciate it. And thanks for your always helpful an entertaining videos!
Cool, facking energetic, fun, entertaining and educational.
Keep up the amazing work/fun
Thanks man!
Great content brother, Happy to have found your channel. Might just have to order some stuff and put those extra car speakers to work.
@LewdnCute happy to have you man! Thanks!
Really good video i love these style of videos plus the speakers sound freaking great amazingly detailed especially for the price
Build a series 6th order 2:1 ratio 28/56hz and compare it to your t-line built.
Proud to be a new subscriber. Like the head butts.
i built a system using a cheep 2.1 sound amp to same speaker spec and it is something else. powerful clear presence.
I'm totally up for this challenge 👍
A labyrinth makes great sound happen. Eliexpress canada does have deals. Only we need to educate ourselves.
Technically you have made quarter-wave "tubes", a true transmission-line has specific damping materials along it's length to absorb certain frequencies and prevent reflections. I have a pair of TL speakers that someone DIYed back in the 80s using USA made Realistic full-range drivers (cheap and cheerful, but Realistic was serious about home hi-fi back then). The TL is fully damped and even the front baffle has damping material on the front under the grill material. They sound fricken amazing and the sound-stage is truly something to hear for near-field listening.
They may work even better if you added some correctly tuned crossovers to the speaker cabinets.
Great build and really good explanation of Transmission Line speakers