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Posted on July 22, 2015 at 16:32:00
rockanroller
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Posts: 84
Location: ohio
Joined: March 29, 2015
 Hello.
I want to build my own speakers(?!!!)and I am looking for blue prints that incorporate horns speaker/drivers.Hence the question: does anyone knows where I could buy those?
Note: I have been doing wood work for a long time and am pretty good at it , with all the necessary tools.
All suggestions,ideas and tips are greatly appreciated.
Regards.


 

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RE: High efficiency speaker blue prints, posted on July 22, 2015 at 17:09:53
6bq5
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Posts: 4385
Location: SF Bay
Joined: August 16, 2001
 There are many speaker plans available - which speakers do you want to build?
Karlson?
Klipsch K-Horns - or a varriant?
VOT
Other Horns?
Lowther/fostex?
Linkwitz?

Some designs are free, others at a fee-
search this forum and you will get some links-
or search the web-

Madisound and Parts Express- as well as many others have KITS
Happy Listening

 

RE: High efficiency speaker blue prints, posted on July 22, 2015 at 17:44:46
hottattoo
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Posts: 141
Location: New York
Joined: July 30, 2011
 rockanroller,

Woodworking can be a nice rewarding hobby !!!! Depending on sonic expectations / room size and budget, horns are the way to go IMHO. Give John Inlow's site a look for horns and some plans--lots of info.

Also check out DIY Sound Group for horns and wave guides, US Speakers.com and Parts express for drivers along with Great Plains Audio ( Altec ) drivers.

 

RE: High efficiency speaker blue prints, posted on July 22, 2015 at 18:51:00
rkeman
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Posts: 597
Location: Florida
Joined: July 26, 2003
 Try Pi Speakers. The cornerhorns are superb!

 

take a look, e.g., at these :-), posted on July 23, 2015 at 04:59:11
mhardy6647
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Posts: 16016
Location: New England
Joined: October 12, 1999
Contributor
  Since: October 23, 2016
 See link below, from Pete Millett's wonderful "Tube Books Online" resource: www.tubebooks.org

There are tons of resources (plans) online at various sites. You might want to try googling a bit.


all the best,
mrh

 

RE: High efficiency speaker blue prints, posted on July 23, 2015 at 06:32:57
drlowmu
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Posts: 9730
Location: East of Kansas City
Joined: January 10, 2005
 Why not do a simple two-way ALTEC A7-800 ? Plans for the early 825, or later 828 enclosures are on WWW. Its HARD to beat Altec woofers, 416 or 515B, and use an 802 on top. KISS rules.

Ohh, be sure to reinforce the curved horn flares, over the stock implementation. Lots of discussion on line, on how to do that.

Good luck, have fun.

Jeff

 

RE: High efficiency speaker blue prints, posted on July 23, 2015 at 07:32:40
lokie
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Posts: 1989
Location: Georgia, USA
Joined: January 28, 2003
 Agree with Jeff on this one. Love the Altec VOTT family. Lots of plans out there but a fellow in Australia has a really cool modern take on this. I could probably hunt down his contact info upon further interest.

For a beginner... a scoop cabinet for a Dual Concentric Tannoy would be easy and sound wonderful.

Do you have access to someone with CDC capability? Could make your life very easy.

Other info could help... like a few goals, room size, music preference, existing amps? etc..

 

thanks for the link. (nt), posted on July 23, 2015 at 09:06:49
bouncy ball
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RE: High efficiency speaker blue prints, posted on July 23, 2015 at 12:14:44
kyle
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Location: London Ontario
Joined: September 29, 1999
 How much floor space do you have ie how big is your room? That and budget will help provide some direction.

 

RE: High efficiency speaker blue prints, posted on July 23, 2015 at 14:43:01
Cask05
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Posts: 80
Location: N. Central Texas
Joined: November 11, 2007
 See:
http://forum.speakerplans.com/loads-of-new-designs_topic999.html
http://forum.speakerplans.com/newbie-essential-reading_topic14681.html
https://www.freespeakerplans.com/plans

Chris
"As far as the ear can tell, consistently clean and spacious bass can be reproduced only by a driver unit coupled to a horn-type acoustic transformer..."; Jack Dinsdale, May 1974

 

RE: High efficiency speaker blue prints, posted on July 23, 2015 at 16:10:37
Don Reid
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Location: Rural NW Georgia
Joined: February 2, 2001
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 Check out Bill Fitzmaurice's horn speaker plans. I ordered his plans for the HT Tuba corner horn subwoofer cabinets. The plans are very complete and professionally done. I am highly pleased with the cabinets built from the plans.

http://www.billfitzmaurice.com/
I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having it's motives questioned.

 

RE: High efficiency speaker blue prints, posted on July 23, 2015 at 20:28:51
Rafaro
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Posts: 158
Joined: July 30, 2005
 Need to define your requirements more precisely.
Live sound-line arrays vs point source how big a Gig
Home use- Home theater, HiFi, how big a room
how much to spend, what size "horns", driving power available
Plenty of plans, sources but many out dated
Best to build to your specific needs.


Rafaro

 

RE: High efficiency speaker blue prints, posted on July 24, 2015 at 05:20:10
rockanroller
Audiophile

Posts: 84
Location: ohio
Joined: March 29, 2015
 First
First, thank you to all that have given me some leads and answers!
Two, here are some details:
-room is about 18x12x15 cathedral ceiling.
-two-combo preamp-amp is Yamaha C-60/M-60 com pletely rebuilt by master tech /Yamaha certified: all new caps, new soldering, etc...160 W per channel at 8 ohms.
-goal is music listening mostly /classic rock/symphonies/blues;
- budget is about $ 3000 dollars
- I would like a combo horn treble and mids, cone woofer, example Klipsch forte.
Thank you kindly.


 

RE: High efficiency speaker blue prints, posted on July 24, 2015 at 09:15:12
George S. Roland
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Posts: 1470
Location: N W Pennsylvania
Joined: March 20, 2004
 I have owned Klipsch Cornwall I, Klipschorn and Altec Model 19s. I think you would enjoy Model 19s. You could buy a working pair and refinish the cabinets, buy a working pair and use the cabinets as plans for new ones or buy new or used drivers and build from plans you could begin with here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~jmarkwart/id13.html

Good luck!

 

RE: High efficiency speaker blue prints, posted on July 24, 2015 at 09:16:23
PeterZ
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Posts: 180
Location: texas
Joined: November 8, 2003
 Wood work is first step, finding the parts and putting together the electronics is another. Lot's of fun with requisite pain and agony. ;-)
PeterZ

 

RE: High efficiency speaker blue prints, posted on July 24, 2015 at 09:52:18
Rafaro
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Posts: 158
Joined: July 30, 2005
 Room size requirements are easily met with even non horn speakers but you will lack the powerful high transient clear low distortion effect of horns. Klipsch Forte CORNER placed in your room will amply meet all your requirements including financial even w/o subs. No need for sawdust!

Luck




Rafaro

 

That's a great resource. Thanks. nt, posted on July 25, 2015 at 15:53:03
jusbe
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Big J

"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."


 

RE: High efficiency speaker blue prints, posted on July 28, 2015 at 09:31:02
roymail
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Posts: 36
Joined: October 20, 2004
 +1 for the PI Cornerhorns provided you have room and corners for them.

Or, buy some used Klipsch Cornwall's or Forte's and do a full restoration along with Crites tweeter and crossovers.

Or, just buy the Crites CS-1.5 project http://www.critesspeakers.com/crites-cs-1-speaker-project.html

Or, the Crites Cornscala (which is what I would have if I had the room but NO CAN DO (WAF problem).

All the best:)

 

Scoop? Really! , posted on August 3, 2015 at 19:00:32
bare
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Posts: 1879
Joined: April 14, 2009
 These Don't work with a Tannoy.
At least not ones I've heard.
Poor sounds is a charitable descriptor IMO.
One would do FAR better with a Fred Flintstone basic door sized OB with the Tannoy in the middle.. True.

 

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