2022 Parts Express [Speaker Design Competition] - Over $300 Category

[@MichelLinschoten]

That first one , absolutely gorgeous! Those stands and speakers just beautiful

[@bertroost1675]

I agree but I really liked the second ones. I wish I could hear them.

[@JukeboxAlley]

Much respect to all of you guys, I've built a few sets myself, I didn't even know they had comps like this, this is incredible.

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

Impressive efforts. Imagination and creativity survive in the DIY craftsmanship, despite our cheap plastic disposable society.

[@bobclarke5913]

Innovative and beautiful designs. The speakers I want to hear the most though are Nick's; classic so elegantly executed.

[@cyclistman6358]

Interesting to see that Javad Shadzi owner of 034 Motorsports is an audiophile and judge in this contest. I'm a big fan and user of 034 tuning components for my MK7 GTI. I'm also an audiophile and a fan and customer of Parts Express. Great contest and DIY speakers from the contestants!! Would have loved to been there for this.

[@linandy1]

we need an east coast audio show and competition like this.

[@Bluecrabsandsushi]

those omnis are fascinating

[@Burythelie]

Really interesting speakers. As someone who always wanted to build something like the Ohm Walsh it definitely gives me a lot of ideas.

[@marksweeney7327]

I could watch this stuff all day.

[@Chibby007]

It would be great if parts express provided a list of the drivers used in the manufacturing of the speakers.

[@dougg1075]

Beautiful work guys

[@TuiCatNZ]

That crossover for the red one is insane! No way that is only $100 worth of parts!

[@PartsExpressOfficial]

It’s the over $300 category. So yeah it’s definitely more than $100.

[@ThePentosin]

Yeah lol, just the big aircore inductor alone is 45 bucks.

[@AllboroLCD]

Nice to see them using Emotiva amps for the competition! Thats the 500wpc beast I believe.

[@1QKGLH]

I thought the same thing.

[@DescartesRenegade]

How are these rated? Decor? Freq response? Efficiency? Utility and cost?

[@trumps-not-rightfor-us5603]

Everybody should be incredibly excited about something like this but see something new and innovative with large bass drivers bright eclectically soft and warm mid ranges and excitedly Crystal b tone down tweets.. the latest thing I've discovered which I truly love and adore and wish I could afford would be the open baffle Sapphire RX for an X5 speaker produced by spatial Auto but if they were only less expensive my God.. and I wouldn't mind having to add an extremely fine sub base separate to augment them because I can decide when and where and how often I want the base that deep..❤❤❤❤

[@roccobruno8027]

Some truly inspired designs.

[@mrb.5610]

Can't fault the build quality either - they all look like they came from a factory !

[@roccobruno8027]

@@mrb.5610 Definitely.

[@Canadian_Eh_I]

Both the omnis and the diffractoramas are very interesting. The diff's are hideous though lol But I bet they sound very good!

[@1moderntalking1]

Can we have a listening test?!

[@xedasxedas]

You mean....you want to hear your own headphones? Cause you sure wont be listening to their speakers. Think about it.

[@1moderntalking1]

@@xedasxedas of course this is obvious but their can be some indication…

[@motives829]

So good. Thanks.

[@DodgyBrothersEngineering]

Some nice out of the box thinking in this one.

[@harrylucas3415]

try lames wool on the t lines i built tow 15s pa sub t line n lames wool works best

[@bryanbassett2110]

Why didn't you show the winners?

[@PartsExpressOfficial]

More videos are coming soon!

[@Xantylon74]

7:09 it looks like a match. ^^

[@bobe3250]

Sure wish they would play the speakers.

[@richh650]

Totally Agreed!!!

[@pandstar]

I apologize in advance to the designers of the B12 and the Mnemosyne, but I can't help but see these (and any other 'retro' speaker), as a somewhat failed design from the get go. Not that they do not sound good, but there are, real world, sonic reasons why speaker designs have moved away from wide baffles, with the raised edges for the grills. I can't help but think, they would sound better in cabinets with more of the things that have been learned in the last 50 years or so. I think the same thing when I look at all the commercially available retro designs, too.

[@linandy1]

people like retro and audio buffs like to rotate gear, maybe one month you listen to monkey coffins and the next month you listen to Focal Sopra. nothing is better or worse, just different.

[@TheAceTroubleshooter]

I think they just kinda failed to meet the spirit of the competition, and its intent on new and unseen stuff

[@DodgyBrothersEngineering]

@@linandy1 no there are definitely worse designs and ideas, and good reasons they changed. For starters the wider front baffle losses imaging and projects the sound forward making it sound very point source. The stepped sides where the grill goes on causes diffraction issues, and consequently why you don't see it very often in modern designs. In this day and age there is no reason to be making such old fashioned looking speakers, unless you have zero imagination, has zero wood working skills, or you simply love the look of 70's speakers at the cost of sound.

[@NackDSP]

When the grill is included, the Mnemoscene essentially has flush mounted drivers, and non-resonant cabinet, so that is a reasonably modern design. The B12 focusing money on exotic coil and capacitors that didn't matter to the sound was sad. However, depending on the crossover points, both of these designs may be beaming in the critical frequency ranges and as such not illuminating the cabinet edges you are concerned with. Depending on the driver size and crossover points a wide flat baffle is just a wide angle waveguide in the end.

[@DodgyBrothersEngineering]

@@NackDSP taking a better look at the grill it may not be as bad as I first thought, although if you are going to attempt to make it a wave guide from the grill the mid could have been better fitted to the shape. I prefer what he did to the alternative. Would have been nice to have offset the the tweeter and mid to not make the wide baffle problem worse.

[@julianklietz6558]

A lot of german sounding last names.

[@jeromelester8]

The Germans invented nearly everything.

[@bertroost1675]

Parts Express, uses bad microphones