anyone built any of their own speakers?

[Black Stuart]

Hi Ian,
thanks for the link to those woofers, they look very interesting. I've had to put off building my own speakers until I get properly settled.

I found on the Canadian Solen site some very interesting Chinese made woofers. Very efficient 15" ranging from 98-101dB. The problem is having to pay as much or nearly so for shipping as the units cost.

The price of the 15" units at Bluearan is very good, I should need to visit their shop in Southampton to get a listen. If I like what I hear, with luck I can organise a pick-up with a Spanish/French trucker.

I'm surprised your sticking with passive x/overs - expensive to build, all sorts of problems. Most if not all of these problems don't exist with an active x/over, especially phase shift, excessive wasteful heat created etc.

I'm working my way through the technical side of converting my hybrid h/amp into a power amp. Removing the PSU and the mosfet o/put into seperate enclosures which makes it easy to introduce the active x/over after the pre-amp section.

I'm also surprised you are not looking at using either a s/hand ribbon AMT unit or one of the modern equivalents from Mundorf etc. So effectively you are creating a two-way speaker with seamless performance from mid to high frequencies. I don't know anyone who has heard quality ribbons that wants to use anything else afterwards.