The First Stages
When we began designing speaker cabinets the first parts that we worked on began as a hobby. The first cabinets were basic boxes in which we bought second hand drivers from various sites across the internet, loaded them into the box and played stupidly loud music through them in Ricks mums kitchen. It was fun inexpensive and got us out of mischief and away from spending money in the pub. This began in February 2011 and after two months of various tinkering, loud music and our keen buddies watching over us it dawned on us both that we might be on to some thing.
Money saving began, hard working penny crunching you name it we put it aside. The amount to even contemplate spending on the electronics side above the 1000watt amplifier Rick already had was huge. The first amplifiers we researched were top of the range Crown digital amplifiers which were the ultimate goal but obviously out of reach. Instead we chose to concentrate on the types of speaker we would like to build and how we would like them to perform.
Firstly we chose to look at a four way mono speaker system consisting of bass bin, kick bin, mid-top and horn flare. The initial idea being to create sound reinforcement for small venues for example the local pubs in our area and house parties. This would mainly be for D.J.s as we both had the same interest and hobby to create small parties for friends. The idea behind building the first set of speakers wasn't to get any type of financial gain but to learn from our own experiments and challenge us as well as to have fun along the way and make more contacts.
The research and saving began looking at various speaker designs and different products to create them with as well. We used a website called Speakerplans.com to find some of the first plans that we wanted to create. The 1850 horn plan on speakerplans.com jumped out at us however, this was not the plan we wanted to follow. We chose that basis of design to begin with but later this would have variations of our own. At this point we wanted to create two of these designs and then go on the build the mid and top sections. These designs were fairly simple basing on the MT 102 designs with out the horn flare added into the speaker its self. The horn flare the high frequencies would consist of a compression driver and horn flare included in a box casing.
The amplifiers needed to power the system would need to be carefully researched and found possibly second. The need to save costs at this point in design was over looked by us in terms of the power wanted and needed for the sound system meaning that we chose to sacrifice purchasing brand new shop bought amplifiers and look instead at favours, forums, ebay and friends.
Firstly we chose to look at a four way mono speaker system consisting of bass bin, kick bin, mid-top and horn flare. The initial idea being to create sound reinforcement for small venues for example the local pubs in our area and house parties. This would mainly be for D.J.s as we both had the same interest and hobby to create small parties for friends. The idea behind building the first set of speakers wasn't to get any type of financial gain but to learn from our own experiments and challenge us as well as to have fun along the way and make more contacts.
The research and saving began looking at various speaker designs and different products to create them with as well. We used a website called Speakerplans.com to find some of the first plans that we wanted to create. The 1850 horn plan on speakerplans.com jumped out at us however, this was not the plan we wanted to follow. We chose that basis of design to begin with but later this would have variations of our own. At this point we wanted to create two of these designs and then go on the build the mid and top sections. These designs were fairly simple basing on the MT 102 designs with out the horn flare added into the speaker its self. The horn flare the high frequencies would consist of a compression driver and horn flare included in a box casing.
The amplifiers needed to power the system would need to be carefully researched and found possibly second. The need to save costs at this point in design was over looked by us in terms of the power wanted and needed for the sound system meaning that we chose to sacrifice purchasing brand new shop bought amplifiers and look instead at favours, forums, ebay and friends.
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