DIY wall mount speakers?

[solid7]

I also need to get a better education on acoustics and audio design. What is the best reading material for a newbie? What is the best (modern) resource for determining speaker selection? An explanation and description of the pros/cons of different types?

Thank you.

[JCD]

solid7 wrote:

I also need to get a better education on acoustics and audio design. What is the best reading material for a newbie? What is the best (modern) resource for determining speaker selection? An explanation and description of the pros/cons of different types?

Thank you.

re: Acoustics
You can always post a message in out Acoustics subforum. There is also a wealth of information here.

re: Speaker Selection
As for speaker selection, i think I know what you're looking for (pros and cons for the various types of speakers), but I don't think I've ever seen something like that consolodated to one area. If you come across something, please share as I'd like to read it too! The best I could find quickly was on Wikipedia.

JCD

[mdrake]

This thread is a very interesting DIY discussion. I found it very interesting.

[drumdude]

This is exactly what I am looking for. I have a pair of speakers hanging and a sub in the Living room, they sound fine for 2-channel music, not great but OK. but they are mounted symetrically in the room and the TV is to the left due to a window dead center of the front wall. When watching TV or movies with the stereo on, the center of the audio image is nowhere near the center of the TV screen. As the quality in my other listening room has improved this has bothered me more and more. I only have about 8 inches of width on each side of the TV for speakers.

[Jay_WJ]

solid7,

I'm new to this forum. I usually hang around at PE board & diyAudio forum. If you look for a multi-driver, cool looking in-wall speaker design. I can design one for you. In fact, designing a crossover of an in-wall speaker system is relatively easy since in most cases we can use driver manufacturer's infinite (or IEC) baffle measurements. No in-box measurement or simulation is needed.

If I were you, I'd consider one of these two designs:

1) Dayton RS125S-8 (or RS150S-8) with Dayton RS28A-4 MTMMM 2.5 way

This design will not only look cool but also sound very clean. The upper two midwoofers will be used as midrange drivers and the bottom two will be used as .5 woofers. You can see the info of these drivers at PE:

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshow...number=295-360
http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshow...number=295-362
http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showd...number=275-130

2) HiVi F5 with RT1C-A MTMMM 2.5 way

This design may be a tiby bit less clean than the above, but will still sound great and look extremely elegant and eye-catching. The same MTMMM driver configuration as above. Drivers are:

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshow...number=297-435
http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showd...number=297-400

Let me know if you're interested.

-jAy

FYI, here are my speaker building web pages:

http://www.geocities.com/woove99/Spkrbldg/