IMPROVING Home Theater Speakers w/ 5" Dayton Audio Mids & Custom Homemade Speaker Tower Projects

Описание: Time to get busy building and installing new speakers!! Today we tackle he DIY Home Theater courtesy of Parts Express! These 5ft towers are loaded up with 20 of their most budget friendly drivers from the infamous buyout section. So... with these new upgrades in full effect, this hifi setup is just what the doctor ordered. Dayton Audio to the rescue!!! :D

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ORDER OF BUSINESS:
Choosing The Best Speakers For The Money
Removing Mismatched 5.25" Mid Ranges
Etching Perfect Circles w/ Helpful Homemade Trick
Cutting & Painting Custom MDF Speaker Rings
Plotting Screw Holes For Mounting New Drivers
Rewiring Cabinet w/ Bigger Sized Wires
(22 AWG to 16 AWG --16 AWG to 14 AWG)
Sanding Tweeter Housings For Closer Fitment
Test Fitting Tweeters w/ The Flat Edge
Crimping Insulated Terminals w/ Ratchet Crimp
Sharing Discount Code & Ratcheting Crimper
Heat Shrinking The Wire Connectors
Explaining Series Pairs & Parallel Wiring
Changing to Gold Plated Binding Posts
Explaining Active Amplifier Setup
Trying The Opposite Tower Placement
Moving Towers Back To Original Position
Going For a 158 Decibel BASS CRUISE!
Buying New Stainless Steel Hardware
Making Rings Smaller by 1/4 inch
Attaching Speaker Rings w/ PL 8x
Installing The Upgraded Drivers
Filling Stripped Out Holes w/ Woodglue & Wood Chips
Sealing Subwoofer Lip w/ Foam Gasket Weatherstripping
Connecting The Subwoofers
Measuring Ohms & Double Checking Polarity
TESTING SOUND Quality & Acoustics!

Mid Ranges:
12 Dayton Audio DS135-8 5" Designer Series Woofer Speakers

Tweeters:
4 Peerless 1" Silk Dome Neodymium Tweeters w/ Waveguide

Subs
4 12" Coated Paper Cone Woofers w/ Foam Surround

Model Numbers:
DS135-8, BC25SC08-04 (formerly vifa), TC-1244

Music By: YouTube Library
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THE ORIGINAL Blurb (from 2015)
These "do it yourself" cabinets were originally designed as passive bipole speakers; when 2 sets of drivers are mounted opposite one another, whose frequencies are played IN PHASE with one another (unlike dipole enclosures which play out of phase) But plans changed, so we made this design. Going the floor standing route also freed up having to make a stand, or multiple stands. So in the end, we chose a combination of sealed and ported chambers for optimum sound quality. Porting to the front also allowed us to locate the speaker against a wall. Additional bracing and acoustic foams was added to prevent the ports from having unwanted high frequency resonance, like that annoying echo we all dislike. Especially bass frequencies. The double baffle also helped with this. And with our 4 chamber setup, each partition doubled with mdf as braces - making the box extremely inert, and fully dampened. Each is driver crossed over on a Behringer DCX2496 active crossover, and the xover points change according to how I feel that day :D The listening room is well, less than perfect - but still a good space for playing demo trailers, movies and music. However, during testing, distinguished standing waves were noticed in 3 places throughout the area. These types of issues, comb filtering especially, are the greatest and most difficult problems small rooms encounter. Thus, it's very smart to have plans built around the specific geometry of a room. That's the only way to build a high end home audio cabinet, after all, rooms affect sound even more than speakers do! Stay tuned this week as we learn how to build custom DIY speaker grills with neodymium magnets! The grill will help keep her clean. Hope you enjoyed the Tutorial :D

Original Tools Used:
2 Wood Clamps, Jig Saw, Table Saw, Circular Saw, Plunge Router & Bits, Palm Sander, Orbital Sander, Air Compressor, Heavy Duty Stapler, Drill

Original Supplies Used:
Titebond 3 Wood Glue
Spax Wood Screws
Bondo Body Filler
Natural Wood Filler
Bondo Short Stand Fiberglass
80 / 150 / 220 Grit Sandpaper
3m Super 77 Spray Glue Adhesive
Polyfill Roll Mat & Acoustic Foam
Killz Original Primer (no pigment)
High Gloss Piano Black Paint (Oil Based)
Rustoleum Home Accents Stone Texture (fleckstone)
14AWG & 12AWG Speaker Wire
Foam Tape, Staples & Wire Ties

Acoustic treatment will be added soon! Things like bass traps ect.

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