As per your request Sonnie!
I purchased a pair of Sound Spinter RLP 15's and built a subwoofer, posting it in Soundsplinter's project display section, and was asked to also post it here along with the mains I built with pics and descriptions.
The subwoofers weigh 235 lbs each and are driven by a bridged QSC 1450 watt amp per sub. I love my music low, loud, and clean at all levels. I incorporated passive radiators which provides a clean and pronounced at the low levels. Just about any design using these drivers will sound good cranked up! I show you how to load the passive radiators on Photobucket that I have linked to at my website.
I first built the mains in '95 with Radio Shack speakers including an 18" woofer and toilet jacks with a 90 degree elbow for my porting. They actually sounded good with my 32" TV until I built my new house and got a 65", and then they didn't match the picture. It's kinda like going to your local movie theater with the sound coming from a pair of old Advent or Kenwood home speakers. The retail outlets didn't have anything close to what I was looking for either. My Radio Shack stuff sounded better. So in 2003, I started studying the internet (spending literally 100's of hours), reviewing others' designs, buying books and software, and many, many drivers and crossover components. I read comments in forums and asked questions. Half of what I read in the forums I discarded like empty coke cans. I kept the same cabinet and kept redesigning them. The finish on all of them are the black slate Pionite (Formica). I built red oak grill frames, and used speaker quality fabric. Each of these speakers went through at least 4 designs until I got the sound quality I was looking for. I auditioned every speaker I could listen to at high end retail outlets, and nothing came close to the sound quality these are giving me. My toughest challenge was the crossovers. My mains' woofers are the Lambdas TD12s, Nick McKinney's handbuilt gems from Florida. Other drivers include Davis Kevlar from France, Scan Speak from Denmark, Morel from Israel, and the HI VI Research planer ribbon tweeters from China.
You can visit the two links in my signature to view the construction photos I have posted at Photobucket and on my Yahoo DIY group. Both links have very good descriptions of my projects. You have to subscribe to my Yahoo group, but I hide your email address and block spammers. You can unsubscribe after visiting.
I sincerely hope you all end up as happy with your DIY projects as I am with mine. I've ended up spending a fortune with the R & D, but it's **** well worth it. I don't go out anymore, and don't need to with this system. I was fortunate enough to have my system photograph and an article I wrote published in the Electronic House Magazine.
On Xmas day of 2008, I started a 4 day project of covering all 13 grills for my speakers because my upholstery man had heart surgery. I decided I needed to learn how to do everything myself, so I bought the right upholstery gun and taught myself the art of the grill covering. It was quite a challenge and more of a surprise how well they turned out. I had them covered over the years by others as I built them, but colors changed and faded due to sunlight and time. Now it is complete and I can move on to another project. Maybe basket weaving.
Thanks for asking me to post..:T
I purchased a pair of Sound Spinter RLP 15's and built a subwoofer, posting it in Soundsplinter's project display section, and was asked to also post it here along with the mains I built with pics and descriptions.
The subwoofers weigh 235 lbs each and are driven by a bridged QSC 1450 watt amp per sub. I love my music low, loud, and clean at all levels. I incorporated passive radiators which provides a clean and pronounced at the low levels. Just about any design using these drivers will sound good cranked up! I show you how to load the passive radiators on Photobucket that I have linked to at my website.
I first built the mains in '95 with Radio Shack speakers including an 18" woofer and toilet jacks with a 90 degree elbow for my porting. They actually sounded good with my 32" TV until I built my new house and got a 65", and then they didn't match the picture. It's kinda like going to your local movie theater with the sound coming from a pair of old Advent or Kenwood home speakers. The retail outlets didn't have anything close to what I was looking for either. My Radio Shack stuff sounded better. So in 2003, I started studying the internet (spending literally 100's of hours), reviewing others' designs, buying books and software, and many, many drivers and crossover components. I read comments in forums and asked questions. Half of what I read in the forums I discarded like empty coke cans. I kept the same cabinet and kept redesigning them. The finish on all of them are the black slate Pionite (Formica). I built red oak grill frames, and used speaker quality fabric. Each of these speakers went through at least 4 designs until I got the sound quality I was looking for. I auditioned every speaker I could listen to at high end retail outlets, and nothing came close to the sound quality these are giving me. My toughest challenge was the crossovers. My mains' woofers are the Lambdas TD12s, Nick McKinney's handbuilt gems from Florida. Other drivers include Davis Kevlar from France, Scan Speak from Denmark, Morel from Israel, and the HI VI Research planer ribbon tweeters from China.
You can visit the two links in my signature to view the construction photos I have posted at Photobucket and on my Yahoo DIY group. Both links have very good descriptions of my projects. You have to subscribe to my Yahoo group, but I hide your email address and block spammers. You can unsubscribe after visiting.
I sincerely hope you all end up as happy with your DIY projects as I am with mine. I've ended up spending a fortune with the R & D, but it's **** well worth it. I don't go out anymore, and don't need to with this system. I was fortunate enough to have my system photograph and an article I wrote published in the Electronic House Magazine.
On Xmas day of 2008, I started a 4 day project of covering all 13 grills for my speakers because my upholstery man had heart surgery. I decided I needed to learn how to do everything myself, so I bought the right upholstery gun and taught myself the art of the grill covering. It was quite a challenge and more of a surprise how well they turned out. I had them covered over the years by others as I built them, but colors changed and faded due to sunlight and time. Now it is complete and I can move on to another project. Maybe basket weaving.
Thanks for asking me to post..:T