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Old October 30th 04, 08:11 AM posted to uk.rec.audio
Andy Evans
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Default DIY Speaker cabinet construction

I'm about to embark on a speaker build, and I thought I'd check in to see what
useful things other speaker builders on this ng have found out. I've built
several before, but I thought to do something a little different. Design will
be a 2-way (or MTM) box. The first decision I've made is to use thick alu U
shape extrusions front and back. The sides will be bolted to the extrusion, and
the top + bottom screwed down, so the whole thing can be taken apart quite
easily. I could use drive units front and back and join them with a metal pipe
to stop resonances. I could fit a bottom with a tuned pipe to increase the
bass.
As for materials for the sides and top, I could go with twin walls and sand in
between. I could get some of that interesting wood laminate I saw at the HiFi
show - very thick, from alternate layers of thin ply, and adhesive in a kind of
thin plastic tile with labyrinthine folds.
The alu U section I have is 6" wide and very chunky. Units would therefore be
restricted in size - I have some B110s to use, may also look at Morel 142.
Size would be 15" high, not decided on depth. Width would be the 6" plate plus
the thickness of the walls, which I'd expect to be not less than 2" each side.
Comments? Andy

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