3-Way monitor (Home Audio)

[DaberAudio 3]

Hey guys,

I thought I’d drop a quick line and show you a project I was working on. This is a pretty basic build, nothing too special. All of these pictures are from inside of my house since I needed my amp to make final crossver adjustments if needed. I sold my Thiel CS 2.2's to fund this build. The drivers are: 8” Hi-Vi M8N magnesium/aluminum driver woofer, 3” Dayton dome mid, and Hi-Vi RT-1C planar tweeter.

http://www.daberaudio.com/projectimages/back%20of%20drivers.jpg

The crossovers are not yet soldered, but you can see the individual boards for the woofers, mids, and tweets. All parts are Jantzen, Dayton, and Mills.

The cabinets are pretty sweet, though I cannot take credit for them completely. These are actually pretty high quality prefabs. That's not to say that I don't have to make some minor modifications I have to port the rears still and install the binding posts. The front baffles are in need of another coat or paint. The router marred them and you can see the natural MDFs color around the sides of the mid (which is really only about 1/64th of an inch gap.)

Thought you guys might find this interesting - more to come

[emh9009 199]

looks good, that 8 looks small in that box

[stevemead08 752]

Looks pretty classy. keep up the good work!

[DaberAudio 3]

I put the binding posts in and soldered the connections. They don't look bad, but they don't look that great either. However, they are on the rear of the speaker and if anyone ever even sees it I will be surprised (except for on here I guess).

Here is the port. It's a basic flared port, nothing fancy. Sounds good though! No detectable turbulence without overdriving the woofer.

Oh look, a tweeter.

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Pictures of the completed speakers. They are dusty, I have not polished them yet.

I have stands for these but they are at a machine shop being shortened. They are 24 inch stands but are WAY too tall for these speakers. I'm having 11 inches taken off. I will take more pictures when I get the stands back tomorrow.

I will also dig out some Tympanist pictures, and a recent $1,000 restoration on a pair of Acoustic Research AR-3a speakers. Yes, you read the correctly.....a thousand dollar resto mod to a pair of AR-3s.

[The enD 467]

Awesome setup!

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

Very attractive.

[DaberAudio 3]

Alright , stands are cut, refitted, and lead filled. I have an estimated 20 hours of listening/break in time on them. I am shocked, awed, and absolutely blown away. They are not bass monsters, but for most listening needs I do not need my subwoofer. The imaging is breathtaking, precise is the only way to describe it. The sound stage is HUGE, both in height and width. Accuracy is top rate. Well recorded live instruments take on an eerie realism that gives me chills.

I torture my friends and family with speakers. Every time I build something, buy something, or repair something we test it out. This time has been great. I have a track I start off with that is all live jazz horns. It starts out the same with these every time. - their eyes narrow, then they begin to smirk, and then they get a shit eating grin on their head and usually look at me and say "oh my GOD". I then move on to things they are more familiar with. Oh well, enough rambling, I know you only came here for pics anyway

[lithium 358]

sexy

[PhishHead 6]

sexy

X2 Loving the stands.