Beginners DIY sub thread (1 Viewer)

[Steve Peterson]

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[Nelson Au]

Great thread guys, I rarely venture to this section of the HTF.
It has renewed my interest in building a sub. I was ready to plunk down some serious cash on a new one.
Question, from your experiences in building your own subs, I was curious if a DIY'er can build a sub that will sound musically as good or better then a commercially made one from the better manufactures like REL, B&W, Velodyne and SVS?
My interest in building one would be to save a ton of money and as I am a designer, I can build it to suit my design sense and room. I prefer a traditional box design rather then tube for aesthetic reasons, but I am not set yet. If a tube can be made to sound rich, tight and be subtle for classical music and still slam me in Jurrasic Park, that would be great.
As you can see, my interest is a sub is to sound great for both music of all kinds, to movies for LFE.
Thanks, I will visit often and look to the sights you mentioned above.
Nelson

 

[Kimmo Jaskari]

A shame that so many of the links in the list have started to die. Perhaps it's just something temporary in some cases, but many of the links above are no more...
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/Kimmo

"Don't tell me; we're about to go over a huge waterfall?"
"Yep."
"Sharp rocks at the bottom?"
"Most likely."
"Bring it on."

 

[Dan M~]

It would be nice to see a listing (tabulated?) of sub drivers and the enclosure designs that have been built for each, with some measurements! Instead of everyone re-inventing the wheel each time a sub is built, a person could look through a table to compare drivers/enclosures/and measured results. Then they could build a tried-an-true design or build their own to add to the list. There is a tremendous amount of sub building info out there, it's just hard to wade through it to get the data you need, and harder to compare the results.
Just a thought for anyone with spare coputer time on their hands...
-Dan

 

[ThomasW]

I updated all the broken links in my posts. I'll get Andrew to update his ASAP.

 

[Kimmo Jaskari]

For those newbies just tuning in... let me emphasize one post in this thread, the one posted by ThomasW a ways up there:
http://www.snippets.org/ldsg/

"Don't tell me; we're about to go over a huge waterfall?"
"Yep."
"Sharp rocks at the bottom?"
"Most likely."
"Bring it on."