FerdinandII wrote:
Learn to weld, then....?????
John K has a lot of low cost system designs, that sound pretty good.
Are your (high) cost drivers in the components or the cabinets?
Yes, My approach for the past 10-15 years has been cost no object kind of work.
Scanspeak Drivers, Phenolic Cabinets, Mundorf Caps etc.
I laminated the cabinets 9 times, and auditioned them inbetween every layer. I have built two speakers this way and it took over 6 months to complete both of them.
I want to get back into building bargain systems now that I know How to do the good stuff.
about $400-$1500 price range is what I would like to shoot for.
This may be in the realm of fantasy, but I would like to eliminate the cabinets, or abbreviate them in some way because they are the bulk of the labor. Especially the finishing process, which I do because speakers need to have a finish, but I don't particularly enjoy. I don't want to resort to 15" woofers and 30" wide baffles to get open baffle bass however, and it would be really cool if I could figure out how to do it with only one or two drivers.
chris