Cheap DIY Speaker Drivers... NEXT LEVEL SPEAKER CABINETS BUILD!

[@alexw890]

I was on the edge of my seat for this one! You proved all my doubts wrong. Well done.

[@mustbuildsomething]

Thanks for the comment. Merry xmas

[@joe1569]

Excellent attention to details. Clever cabinet construction

[@djungariangrowler1241]

1. No.. 1. Definitely No...

[@Shimshams]

At last…someone who actually cuts small pieces from a huge sheet without waste, and not cutting from the centre of a sheet 👍 Love the CNC scanner 👍

[@PatrickKrolickoff]

Agree! I am tired watching how most of DIY'ers cut a small piece from the center of large sheets.

[@mustbuildsomething]

I managed to make both speakers out of only one sheet YES :-) Felt great! Thanks for the comment. Merry xmas

[@Shimshams]

@ and cut small dia metal with an angle grinder , use very expensive cnc machinery to make simple parts while telling you it’s a 5 min job 🤷‍♂️

[@pappallapappippapp8451]

Außergewöhnlich! Ich wünsche Dir, dass die Lautsprecher so gut klingen, wie sie aussehen. Grüße aus Norddeutschland und ein guten Rutsch ins nächste Jahr!

[@kolgrillarn]

Would be nice to hear them live 😊👍👍👍

[@DIYAudioGuy]

Excellent work!

[@mustbuildsomething]

Thank you very much, happy xmas.

[@rhkips]

I love this so much! That's a beautiful design and build, and unique finishing style I don't see very often. Traveling at the moment, but have this video saved to re-watch when I get home to my reference system to properly sample the sound demo!

[@christophequintin5250]

Incredible speaker build and such much attention to details, wish i had those skills... hope you enjoy. Very nice video by the way.

[@briansauvey7126]

you got some mad skills, beautiful work!

[@mustbuildsomething]

Thank you, merry xmas!

[@G4Nazarener]

Great work! In the fitting process at 5:00 you could have glue a sanding paper on the body and copy the shape by grinding the cylinder on that paper.

[@Poul_DK]

Great work - very nice speakers 😊👍👍

[@СержВоробьев-й6я]

спасибо за юмор в озвучке)))особенно про сканер!!!

[@szczepanszatan]

Great work👌

[@gprn3]

Intéressant cette conception, ça donne des idées, merci pour la vidéo.

[@mustbuildsomething]

Merci, Joyeus noël

[@mustbuildsomething]

Joyeux noël ;-)

[@gprn3]

@mustbuildsomething Joyeux Noël à toi et tes proches aussi, merci pour ton partage :-"

[@jofrposa]

Gigantesco trabajo de madera y una gran selección musical👋👋👋

[@jpwillm5252]

Très joli travail !

[@mustbuildsomething]

Merci

[@yellow_noise3]

Awesome craftsmanship! I really enjoyed this build video. However my associacion with sewage plumbing is overwhelming...😂

[@mustbuildsomething]

You should just think about saving Princess Peach :-) Merry xmas

[@Hog-g2z]

Good morning 🌅, Nice design, this might help, if you put double sided tape on to a full sheet of sand paper and place it on the surface of the front of the cabinets then the driver housing you rub up and down the cabinets you should have a good fit for the housing to cabinets, Good luck with your project, I have built a very large pair of transmission line cabinets many years ago, just recently had to replace the drivers with SEAS DRIVERS 10” and 1” tweeter, powered by NAD , merry Christmas and happy new year, for 2025 ,

[@mustbuildsomething]

That is a great idea, nicely thought of. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you

[@yuramarchenko2017]

Красавчик 👍 надо самому повторить.

[@filipdudan8057]

Very nice build! This video will help me with my curved build. A point of improvement is the cylinders that are used for mounting are round and the speakers are mounted in their centers, which will cause equal diffraction from every way, amplifying the diffracted frequency. For this reason, manufacturers use face plates that will allow uneven diffraction. A deep roundover could also help here.

[@mustbuildsomething]

Thanks for the comment. The shape of the speaker itself is drop-shaped which is really good for killing sound waves but if they can't get out of the speaker rings it isn't good. Hope I understood your comment correctly.

[@filipdudan8057]

@ the drop shaped cabinet helps a lot with the cabinet resonance and standing weaves within the cabinet itself. Diffraction happens on the baffle since there is a lot of vibrations around the speaker driver which will exit the speaker at the edge of the baffle. This unwanted sound is amplified if the distance between the driver center and the edge of the baffle is the same. Meaning drivers mounted on a cylinder suffer the most.

[@giovannicarlotonelli942]

Complimenti che bello realizzazione. Bravissimo.

[@mustbuildsomething]

Grazie

[@stephenyoud6125]

Interesting build and well executed. I would have added a good radius on the inside of the woofer through hole as the total depth was quite large and would behave like a tube with the edge diffraction of the inner edge. But nicely done !

[@mustbuildsomething]

The speaker rings have a cutout that is approximately 15 mm bigger than the woofer cutout with a chamfer from the cutout.. Looking back I would have made the "tube" shorter - great question, nicely observed!

[@stephenyoud6125]

@ I’m a big follower of Danny Richie at GR-Research and learn a lot from him and his Tech talks and upgrades

[@mndlessdrwer]

That specific "piano" finish over wood veneer can take anywhere from 7 to 12 layers of clear coat with sanding in between every few coats to reduce orange peel that could cause optical defects in the thick layer of clear coat. The only thing that I will point out as a point of contention is the use of those terminal posts. They look like there's some steel in there. Ideally you'd want to use copper or brass terminal posts to avoid the high frequency attenuation that steel posts can sometimes exhibit. While I don't generally advocate for omitting a tweeter in favor of a wide-band midrange driver, it can provide a unique sound if you do so and is still quite viable for certain types of music. Just expect for there to be more beaming in the high frequencies with higher volume outputs.

[@redmtl1]

Fantastic video, thanks

[@CHIBA280CRV]

Wonderful 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@giacomoleporatti9359]

Bellissime!!!!

[@mustbuildsomething]

Merci

[@marcinkaczynski4733]

Good jop.Bravo

[@thomasschafer7268]

You can buy 10mm foldable MDF for 14€/m2. Very easy to handle.👍👍🇩🇪

[@mustbuildsomething]

Thanks for the comment. where I live we only have 80x120 cm folded the wrong way

[@paparrinafp5357]

Bien 👍

[@mustbuildsomething]

Merci

[@Vinz3ntR]

They look great although I think this flexible Mdf needs a double sheet as there's a lot of places the mdf is now only a few mm thick.

[@mustbuildsomething]

Thanks for the comment, the glue is filling out the cutouts. When I knock on the speaker it sounds more dense than normal 19 mm thick mdf, I guess because of the curve.

[@Dreez76]

Gorgeous speakers, but i prefer speakers that don't need a subwoofer to dig deeper. I would've probably made a bit bigger speaker in diameter and added a strong 8" sub downfiring with a back port. Each to their own.

[@miff227]

I don't know how precise your volume measurement needed to be but the square having the same area is an assumption. If the triangle point was 60 degrees (equalateral triangle) the area would be 280 vs the 297 for the square. I think you have something like an 80/50/50 triangle which should make the difference even greater as the closer to a circle the shape is, the lower the area for a given perimeter (where the lowest possible area is a perfect circle).

[@ramseyedward7940]

Which speakers' color do you like/recommend (black, white, walnut, or reddish)?

[@garethsnaim8174]

nice build but I came for the DIY speaker drivers?

[@mustbuildsomething]

I didn`t think that one through... It is going great with the video, I think I will wait with changing the titel for the algorithm gods

[@thebeaglebeat3615]

Think he means who manufactured the drivers, model etc., nice vid, have subed

[@KlaweKlapki]

Its hard to watch at them

[@carlpetitt2241]

Strange video. With so many woodworking and finishing videos on KZbin, this one shows you doing a clear finish that looks really awful. You haven't sanded sufficiently between coats to flatten before applying the next coat. The result is a wavy-looking mess, as if someone poured syrup all over the speakers. The reflecting light against that clear coat only makes the effect worse. Also, by the way, at 4:40 you mention that you have a CNC -- then why are you cutting all those MDF parts by hand with a trim router and a template?? that's the kind of thing a CNC is perfect for! Really don't understand. Lastly, at 12:30 you tapped threads into the black piece but then immediately proceeded to not use them and instead you just jammed the binding posts through the threaded holes with brute force. Again, it makes no sense!

[@mustbuildsomething]

There is only 2 sec of me sanding you can't see how much I have sanded. If I sand any more it will go through. I say in the video that if you want a real high gloss finish you will have to sand and clear coat it again. I worked with painting cars for 9 years . The whole thing with the scanner and CNC was a joke sorry you did not get it. Lastly there was no threads on the binding posts they are made to be forced in. I just used the drill that I had and yes it is made for making threads. Merry xmas

[@janeriksen881]

first

[@mustbuildsomething]

ja du var

[@zweistein3791]

This stupid music ruined an otherwise very detailed and tutorial video-- reading the subtitles is the only option to get through this video -- There is too much brushed lacquer on these speaker, it woud have been better to us a spray gun to apply the varnish in very thin coats a few times over-- I very much like the crossovers with HQ parts in them but then you put cheap binding posts with steel nuts in the signal path.....D'oh

[@mustbuildsomething]

Thanks for the comment, sorry you did not like all of it. The lacquer was only applied with a spray gun. Merry xmas :-)