DIY

I just got home from my local audio society meeting. It was very cool. Our presenter this evening was a company that sells speaker component parts. They sell drivers to enthusiasts and businesses who want to design and build speakers. They also brought some examples of speakers built using their parts for us to listen to. One was a horn loaded speaker with a full range main speaker and a super tweeter that only takes over at about 15khz. There was another made with a concentric driver, and a third mini-monitor with a passive bass radiator mounted on the rear of the enclosure. All sounded quite good.

My favorite was the monitor with the concentric driver. It sounded very detailed, and had great imaging, all for $450 for a pair of kits. It is pretty impressive the quality of speaker that you can get if you are willing to do some of the work yourself. It is certainly something I would like to learn more about.