DIY Speaker Using Paper

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[@jimmy_jamesjams_a_lot4171]

I’m really glad that I watched this!! Your manufacturing methods are simple enough that even I might be able to do a very similar build! I especially liked seeing the trim router being used quite often, on the poly acrylic sheets, for example, it’s stuff that really opens my eyes to a whole lot of possibilities in manufacturing that do not require CNC or 3D printing. So a person can make extremely professional looking builds and not really need any new tools, it’s really great!!

[@Russell_and_Rosko]

These turned out great 👍🏽 A word of advice from a speaker builder, a moving diaphragm (the “speaker”, whether it be a tweeter, midrange, woofer, or subwoofer) interacts with the air space it’s suspended in. For a mid, a sealed box is best. The woofer or midbass speaker (it’s actually called a “driver”) will typically benefit from more airspace as opposed to less space inside the speaker box. To make bass, you need airspace, regardless of port tuning (diameter and length of the port in relation to the enclosure airspace). It looked like this build lost a good chunk of airspace and the port size moves into a flare. So from an aesthetic/design perspective this is an awesome build. From a point of view that is focused on high fidelity/high resolution/high output, I would suggest to maintain similar dimensions if you like the original speakers sound, but error on the side of LARGE. Big boxes are great for warm natural smooth response vs peaky, sharp, cold/dark sounding boxes that are built too small. If you want big full sound but you’re limited on space, on a woofer or subwoofer application, a passive radiator (an unpowered speaker that shares a sealed cabinets airspace, and counters the driven speakers actions) allows the box to sound as if it’s a larger box. Brace the internal corners and lightly pack the inside of the box with pillow stuffing or good foam or the mids/bass will not sound sharp, but smeared and blurred. Build your own and get higher quality for far less cash. Do it 🙌🏼

[@edwardbalboa5528]

These are transmission line speakers .... What you've said doesn't apply to this type of design

[@Russell_and_Rosko]

@@edwardbalboa5528 Original speaker started out as a ported design. The new speaker is in no way near a transmission line design, just an elongated slot port with a a flare on one of the ends. Did you watch the video or do you spend your time commenting on yt vids attempting to discredit others? My above suggestions are to encourage people to get into the hobby of speaker building.

[@mdocod]

Just looking at the dimensions of the old and new boxes, and the dimensions of the old and new port, I expect the new boxes have a similar enough internal volume and tuning frequency to not matter a hill of beans once put in a real world room. The new port design is superior for minimizing compression and noise (more cross section, nice flared exit). The biggest problem with the new box design is not that they weren't made large enough, it's that there will be some pronounced dips and peaks in response where midrange is allowed to escape the port and couple or cancel with direct radiated response from the driver. The rear port design is better when midrange is playing from the same driver as the bass, as it reduces midrange cancellations/nulls in response. Your advise to put stuffing in the box is useful here to help solve some of these midrange problems, as well as simply cleaning up the bass response (reducing unwanted reflections and box resonances). Making the box "sound bigger" is perhaps the least useful aspect of stuffing and isn't a useful design goal unless the modification to the transfer function from the stuffing happens to take things in the right direction for the application (it may or may not depending on many factors). A passive radiator and a port both work the same way. The slug of air in the port has a particular resonance characteristic that is excited by the driver same as a PR. It's the most basic of acoustic impedance modifications for low frequency coupling available that trades some group delay/distortion for increased maximum system output around and above the tuning frequency. PR's can allow lower tuning frequencies in a small box than are practicable with ports, but this comes with its own set of tradeoffs. There's no free lunch hidden in that tech. Simply making a box larger does not guarantee any improvement in "natural smooth response," nor does making a box smaller guarantee a cold/dark sound. A properly made and damped box should not color the sound either way. The range of usable box size varies by driver characteristics and design goals. Excessively large boxes will allow the driver to achieve very high output levels at tuning frequency with very low power input (a narrow peak in response), but also sacrifices excursion protection below tuning frequency and does nothing useful for the frequency range above tuning. An appropriately sized vented box is sized and tuned to NOT have any excessively excited peaks in response. A very well designed vented box will take into consideration room response, sub crossover friendliness, driver excursion protection, and driver thermal power handling available that can be used instead of box size.

[@juslitor]

@@mdocod Wouldnt the lack of any acoustic dampening materials contribute to massive amounts of standing waves ?

[@mdocod]

@@juslitor I would expect this box design to have a lot of sound coming out of the port and reflecting back through the driver that shouldn't. The lack of damping materials is a concern.

[@legionvad9744]

Beautiful looking speakers, just a tip next time try cutting a groove/line to tuck or hide the speaker wires. It will give the speakers a cleaner look.

[@dushk0]

Yes, just integrate the wiring in the cardboard at the beginning.

[@justinmurphy2227]

Being very involved in car audio and now some home audio, what you've done here is something that has vanished from the vehicles that compete in audio shows now....INNOVATION! I know this was a home audio build but you took something that some would think already looks great, and they do.....buttttttttt.....you took them to a "custom" one of a kind level! And I have a deep passionate place in my heart for Plexi/Acrylic LOL! I love showing of the internals of projects! Once again, thank you for posting this and hopefully inspiring others!!!

[@NBC_NCO]

Me too. Car to home audio. After having a few sound systems stolen...I keep my car audio deck factory, and I don't do anything to draw attention to myself. Home...I put in my favorite movie and shake the pictures on my walls and get full spectrum of eargasims.

[@thomasschafer7268]

Nothing to do with the original! Sound and reflex tunnel. Haha. Better look and bad sound.😆😆😆

[@laszlovona]

not to mention that the cheap original box was also made of 'paper'.. lol ..

[@JohnDoe-zr6bk]

No, it's not a relfex tunnel, this is called transmission line. Its length has to be calculated, so that the waves have the same phase when the emit the speaker and the TL

[@westelaudio943]

@@JohnDoe-zr6bk Not a t-line. Far too short and the chamber is too big. It's just a rectangular port. If it's properly tuned? I don't know.

[@felixokeefe]

I very much doubt that those Plexi side panels form any kind of seal. Probably flapping all over the place with the bass. I like the laminated cardboard idea though. Could come in handy.

[@Rodo_]

Eso mismo!!!!

[@user-us4sb1cp3c]

Это прекрасная профессиональная работа!!очень красиво выглядит .успехов вам во всем!!!жду следующих работ

[@user-of6ln9mb3x]

За творчество - пять баллов! За смысл - два. Мучачос можно было и на старом хламе слушать!

[@Sigenol]

You should calculate or simulate the horn dimensions according to the inner volume, bass speaker TS parameters etc.

[@subramaniamchandrasekar1397]

For dead people singing with bucket drums, this should be ok.

[@davidbostock6933]

@@subramaniamchandrasekar1397 I wasn't thinking of ruining a good speaker for a silly project, but I sound like Andy Devine trying to sing like George Burns, they're both dead so one of these may work for me.

[@jd70HJ19]

Awesome 80% harmonic distortion exercise and 100% cabinet resonances radiators . But hey... you can see through it , too bad you did not incorporate a mini smoke generator inside them so you could see the the standing waves generated inside by the mini woof woofs . You have crafting skills ..reading about designs from SPEAKER BUILDER SOCIETY will enable you to understand the physics of low frequency reproduction. During the past 50 years ,I have built practically every type of bass enclosure known to the speaker builders world backed by audio engineers scientific study and design. I built my Klipsch corner horns in 1982.... the 32 htz bass output from them @ 8 watts RMS input will crack sheetrock if left on too long all accomplished at harmonic distortions of less 4 % and less than 3% for intermodulation distortion using high quality drivers. The miniaturization of bass drivers was driven by space concerns in small living environments like apartments , dorm rooms, or still living with mom & pop , but, I can tell you that up to the present, there is no such thing as a 30 HZ mini amplitude bass wave .It cannot be done with a mini woof woofer without it sounding like a thud thud mud thumper. Even Klipsch cannot do it , the best that can be generated with them, is the illusion of deep bass, through the acceptance of listening to mud that people in the past 3 generations perceive as deep bass. Bass Horns of all types have tapers , requiring complex mathematical calculations to get correct . Transmission lines with uniform parallel lines curved or not, are a bit easier to calculate .Helmholtz resonators need large boxes with tuned ports ,acoustic suspension boxes need to be super air tight and accurately sized , band pass enclosures GOD SAVE US ALL are wind generators , but in common , all of them must be built as rigidly and vibration free as possible. A simple question comes up , what did you hope to achieve with your curved parallel lines rear path with thin vibrating polycarbonate sides terminated to a short flare ? For one thing , it is too long to be transmission line tuned , and it without doubt causes the rear wave from the mini woofer to be out of phase with the front more often than not , worse yet is that it creates boundary standing waves like a billiard ball bouncing off the long sides of the table. Speaker Builder is an excellent place for you to get great information about loudspeaker cabinetry that is design proven , even for small high quality drivers, and what their specifications really mean relative to their frequency response versus input. That said , you are a good craftsman.

[@piworower]

ing them with smoke would be pretty cool

[@user-pr5up3zh4f]

Отличная колонка. Принцып улитки в колонке даёт хорошие низы. У меня большие по такому принцыпу сделаны звук отличный. 👍👍👍

[@olachus]

I guess the system sounds a lot better in reality than we can hear on YT. Nice project, beautiful results!

[@manuelmoscardi6606]

in this case it's not YT the problem, but the microphone. YT uses OPUS compression, fairly good.

[@KingCookingASMR2053]

I don't normally watch the ENTIRE video that people post of builds, but, this. Wow. Absolutely beautiful. I have no clue why there are ANY thumbs down. Bravo.

[@gavinhill3164]

Read the comments. There are lots of apparently knowledgeable people pointing out possible problems

[@baritone777]

Sounds under-damped? Love the method!

[@markphillips6154]

Holy crap! Those things are really cool. Lots of work lots of genius

[@keithcitizen4855]

holy crap thats a good start ,,,,

[@alicemoon9008]

Great 👍🏼 Job - No Comment’s ….. Hi 👋 from Russia 🇷🇺 ….. (Moscow City 🌆) …..

[@K03sport]

it would have been nice to see performance specs between the box and the re-worked "paper" C-port design. I'm curious if there would be any cancelation due to the curved section directly behind the woofer. It would be interesting to try this transmission line-esque design with larger speakers. Nice looking finished product.

[@user-kl4cs9op6d]

I hear it sounds better. ))

[@eldanyboy78]

hello hello, what resin did you use to make the cardboard look like wood, thank you very much from Mexico, hola hola que resina utilizaste para que el carton quedara como madera, muchas gracias desde mexico,

[@ademiltoncordeiro1867]

Esse eu gostei! 👊👏👏👏

[@ashims1983]

You have great skills. It was very helpful. When I make beautiful speakers, I want to imitate them. Thank you. from Kyoto pref. Japan

[@mhykstv3622]

Amazing work. Congrats sir

[@carlosmmoralesmedina1915]

Excelente trabajo la hechura de los parlantes y del amplificador quedaron geniales

[@jbak420]

speaker qualities are generally good and this guy know all speakers can be improved upon by sound alone and the end result of this vid prooves it

[@luthit2956]

If wires were hided, it will more cool. great design!

[@sperdenv5871]

Would be possible to show the max volume of the speakers to see them move with a longer test thx

[@ericlejacques2704]

Le résultat est vraiment fabuleux; Quelle rigueur et quelle patience. bravo pour cette superbe réalisation.👍👍👍

[@mauriciomejia2361]

Todo excelente y un buen trabajo, pero al final la regó con esa canción....

[@catfishfry336]

Beutiful design!......wished you could have hidden the exposed internal wiring though......still Excellent exacution on baffle design...

[@2OO_OK]

Very sophisticated construction and method. I suspect you have done this before.

[@udaaybagade343]

What changes in the sound quality or the sound output after destroying the original ones ? A good time pass work showing the craftsmanship. What is the objective of using the transparent acrylic sheets on the sides ? Was that 3 inches speakers having sufficient low frequencies to let them out through a pass ? Anyways a new direction for the people to try something different.

[@NBC_NCO]

They look really nice. I like the build and problem solving abilities. Using my Onkyo 5.2 Bluetooth function. The sound for me is like a speaker being placed in a paint can. When materials of a very hard nature are used for audio, you get a lot of reflected sound waves.

[@petecarney2035]

You are the routermaster. Lol. I feel inspired.

[@kari.ostero]

With all that plexiglass I was sure that he would end up putting some cool RGB-W lights inside those. That would have looked nice in a dim-lit setting

[@-IE_it_yourself]

check out the old JBL speakers that uses a incondecint light bulb as a tweeter protection. the speakers would light up as the volume peaks. but this is a full range set up.

[@markphillips6154]

I’ve never seen iron on gluing with the steam setting on

[@user-jn4xk8we3z]

Te quedo muy bien!!! 👍👍👍

[@overtron9969]

Single greatest video recommendation from KZbin ever. You are a master craftsman, and it shows. I just learned so many tips and tricks, without you even saying a word. Amazing work, and greet job. You truly are a master of your craft sir. I look forward to learning more from you. Thanks 😊

[@giacomo46455]

Complimenti lavori bene 👍

[@Dokkalfar-eh3sk]

as a colombian is interesting to hear a song clearly made in colombia,,, in a sound test...........

[@LeonardoCaldasSoares]

This speaker should have an internal crossover. And not that simple capacitor

[@wzortrex]

Agreed. But those drivers were very cheap parts, and not even worth the effort. All that work, and he got a little bit lower and louder bass. But, still...out of a 3 inch woofer. Gimme a break.

[@user-kj8xn8eo3n]

👍 Естетично, стоило бы драйверы лучше купить, к примеру ”Seas”. А так у вас умелые руки и дизайнерский подход+

[@JoshuaRilliet]

Super sympa cette modification 👍

[@geoffwoodwogga]

Very pretty. Anything 'scientific' about the port box and port dimensions ?

[@Avenger2022]

Красиво конечно..Но вы забыли одно но ...стенки должны быть толстые..что бы корпус не резонировал..а оргстекло на такой площади и при такой толщине греметь будет !

[@sc0or]

Sounds like boomboxes from 80-s, but looks rather good.

[@user-tf5jb9sh7u]

Зачёт, но реальные параметры звука, без измерения и расчётов, красивая игрушка. Тем более усилитель от колонок.

[@musya_pusya]

с вами полностью согласен. Делают а бы просмотров на хомячках собрать

[@samuelsalins8309]

Great job. Interesting .

[@hondayamaha3]

So beautiful and making transparent on the sides Highlights the hardwork you put into making this. Simply beautiful 10/10

[@jolujo5842]

Music sux ... But the design is 👍

[@LheodaTechTv]

WATCHING AND SENDING SUPPORT

[@kevinalexander92]

What is the title of the demo song?

[@MrMaxwood]

I really think this video is about designing something different and imaginative to give ideas. Somehow I doubt the science was on his mind. Now that we have seen what possible someone else can calculate all the fancy bits. I think it's an awesome design and would love a bigger model for my room it would be a great talking point even if not audiophile quality.....

[@johnlockesghost5592]

In plain English, just because you can doesn't mean you should.

[@D4lF4l]

Look really good but the resonance can't be great without any kind of acoustic dampening?

[@ErCanEverything]

Good work my Friend👏👏👏🙂🤝

[@Roccoms71]

Realy great !!!! Congratulations !!!

[@vicg5323]

Stunning work

[@oriorb]

You'd figure you would want to use better drivers than ones from a set of Edifiers if you're going to spring for such extravagant cabinetry...

[@basilerm]

looks amazing

[@endall39]

Interesting and elaborate fabrication, but is that port engineered to that driver? The slot port you made looks to be substantially different in volume than what was presumably an OEM port engineered to work with that driver. I hope I'm wrong, but you won't achieve good performance out of that woofer with a port that was only built for appearance and without careful calculation.

[@djjanpie]

It sucks this port ..to big👎😉

[@dushk0]

You can use whatever port you want, don't overappreciate the way OEMs do this stuff in this price range. Yes, the port's bigger in section but also a lot longer, so... would have to measure and calculate what it does.

[@chrisplunkett2814]

As a work of art it's up there with the best of them.But the kinda random transmission line design could be helping or hindering the bass driver without any design relative to the t/s parameters.

[@ChudGippity]

What speakers were the speakers you start with?

[@prokitchen1617]

Fantastic work 👌🏻👍🏻🔊

[@craftroom]

Thanks for watching!!!

[@howitmade9729]

Hi, Great content... Can I find your e-mail for contact?

[@idan1242]

some foam inside and change amp. nice work on the box design!

[@robertforster9482]

Dont see the point of ruining a perfectly good pair of speakers to remake them. Just find some bits and do it.

[@manuelmoscardi6606]

ruin? those chinese speaker?

[@Crokto]

@@manuelmoscardi6606 i mean its doubtful that the new speaker built from them sounded better...

[@manuelmoscardi6606]

a semicircle box is better than a parallelpiped one

[@walterpereyra6759]

Fantástico trabajo ,te felicito!

[@hoobsgroove]

how does that sound now you've got a fourth-order bass boost. I put a bit of foam behind the driver and behind the tweeter and mount the tweeter on the inside, the crossover sounds a bit harsh would help or change some caps

[@firdoskarai432]

Neat looking speakers. Sound test should have been better presented.

[@vinodroshandsouza3369]

Awesome work sir super 👏👏👌🙏💖🥰👍👍

[@kingmakespeaker1402]

It's really beautiful

[@quesquera3944]

Make hidden circuit and cable 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@logotrikes]

I enjoyed that rather a lot. Thanks for sharing....

[@shaharyarsheikh6878]

Everyone seems to be making horns or transmission lines... No one tells what difference in sound it brings to the original

[@aankhn]

О! ЧВшечка. Круто получилось

[@KazakovNik]

Визуально огонь. Но звук из бочки.

[@PhilBusby]

It might look cool, but a curved surface is not a friend of acoustics. The curves produce so many standing waves and completely changes the acoustics. Great for making tuned string instruments, terrible for speakers.

[@LegionOfWeirdos]

How is it the Bowers and Wilkins Nautilus sounds so good, I wonder? 🙃

[@TheMrRatzz]

Nice project. If I'm being picky, the grain on the speaker sizes isn't right, and this causes my brain to ache!

[@huypham6059]

I really like this song can you tell me the name pls.

[@nikolaimeier8858]

Чистая работа,от души

[@michaelzimmer4850]

Super cool design man! keep on keeping on.

[@robertgaines-tulsa]

I'm impressed you didn't fart your speakers during the demonstration. They sound well balanced and are making good bass rather than some thud machine. Nice work!

[@blackjack9863]

Great. Which speaker system was it before? 👍

[@ragnarpadar3647]

Looks like some Edifier model.

[@asmrkita3612]

It's Microlab B77 speaker I believed

[@user-ru3lz2rb5n]

На процесс работы приятно посмотреть. Если всё только для этого и делалось, то - понимаю.

[@clebersimoes4227]

Great JOB!!

[@adrianleon7978]

Eres la mitad de un genio hasta que pusiste regeton

[@DjXCENTRiC]

Super fresh!!!!

[@lukeluke5141]

I think that was better original set up. Are them Indiana Line loudspeacker?

[@alexzay9637]

Awesome 👍

[@djambush360]

Knowing what material you are working with is negligibly. By "using paper" did you mean the sheet were you've drawn the layout on?

[@wric01]

Thin bamboo veneer should be better and accessible.

[@Videogame9559]

Fantastic job well made like this so much , build raspberry pi volumio streaming system

[@latexrope1358]

Why did you bother cutting up the old cabinets?

[@israelp.b.3371]

Muy bueno el diseño, hasta que puso el gorgoreo ese de canción... Pero excelente diseño

[@user-mb8ih4ii3n]

Que programa usaste al inicio del vídeo amigo

[@malinkobay]

Original & élégant…

[@noejuliansaavedra]

El modelo original me gustaba mas.

[@joseluismar4126]

Que espatoso!!!

[@ledfed1912]

Did you even tune the enclosure?

[@Schjoenz]

Well, this is just a DIY Speaker "box".. the design is amazing though.. It has more appeal than before..

[@chienphamhuy69]

nhất đồ nhì nghệ,tuyệt

[@MarioIArguello]

Nice! Thumbs Up!

[@megaalod4341]

Сделано конечно оригинально и красиво. Но какова АЧХ? Фазоинвертор не надо расчитывать?

[@musya_pusya]

та какой фазоинвертор? Парашка сделаная без расчетов на голом интузиазме

[@yidir-pk7359]

Amazing work congratulation! ✨ I really like this disign