So I put out word that Id like to add music to my workshop and asked my club members if they had any gear they were not using. Also purchased some diy boards which I plan to build.
These are the amps I have
1. An AKAI 40 watt RMS Amp
2. TDA7293 100 watt setup.
3. a 200 watt blameless design from VASP. That's 200 watts per channel.
4. A LM3886 amp 65 watt.
Most of the DIY Boards share a power supply which is 35-0-35 dc @ 15 AMPs.
The speakers I plan to use.
For the tweeter I have 1 inch 40 watt Peerless Silk Dome. (This is already in a pair of bookshelves and it sounds amazing.). I also have a pair of Danity 1 inch silk dome tweeters All 8 ohms.
For the mid of the full range part of the 3 way I have a Boston 48414 40 watt RMS 8 inch 8 ohms.
For the woofer I have purchased Sweton SBS 10 inch double magnet.
I have all the TS for these speakers. And would like to thank Sweton for all the help provided. They really went above and beyond in answering all my questions.
I was thinking of using other brands like Doge but the Made in India bit for Sweton locked me in on putting money down. Also considered the 12 inch Pro series from Sweeton. But was told that this 10 Inch Home series would be better suited to my amps and application.
Some history on what I am using.
So one of the speakers donated to me was a bookshelf which consisted of the Same Boston 48414 with the peerless speakers.
To be honest I have never heard anything that sounds so good. Its even better than my Bose Book Shelf Series II speakers. Way better. The only problem being that these bookshelves have zero bass. Hence the idea to add a woofer to get some base.
I have two options I can build a separate box for just the 10 Inch woofer. And place the book shelf on top of it.
Or I can build a fresh 3 way setup. Where I will have the woofer, the full range and the tweeter.
I have the basic data entered up in winisd and I have been reading up.
My questions
1. What cross over points would I use for the woofer when designing the cross over. Im not going to ask for the cross over points for the Full Range and tweeter as I dont have the TS for them. So the plan will be to experiment. But if you want to throw a number out that would help.
2. When designing a box they always ask what freq you want to target. I know for subs they recommend a freq target off 30-35Hz. But this is for subs I could not find any recommendation for woofers. My TS says 43 Hz. So should I pick this value ?.
Did spend months looking thru various speaker specs before picking this woofer. It had to be something that was under 5K per pair. I am on a tight budget. I also have 4 x 4 Inch danity mids that I could use but I am convinced nothing sounds as good as the 8 inch Boston Full Range. Any help finding TS for these Boston speakers would be appreciated. I did read here that Philips used to make an identical speaker.
Have hooked up the 10 Inch Woofer 150 watt to my system without a box.
As it was 150 watt and my other channel was playing just a 40 watt bookshelf was expecting the woofer to be soft but funny thing it sounded just as loud as the 40 watt speaker in fact louder.
The other surprise was even though the Freq curve shows a shard drop off at 2000Hz it felt like I was listening to a full range speaker.
So far the best ported box size I could calculate for this woofer was 100 ltrs. Which is a bit to large for my limited. space.
These are the amps I have
1. An AKAI 40 watt RMS Amp
2. TDA7293 100 watt setup.
3. a 200 watt blameless design from VASP. That's 200 watts per channel.
4. A LM3886 amp 65 watt.
Most of the DIY Boards share a power supply which is 35-0-35 dc @ 15 AMPs.
The speakers I plan to use.
For the tweeter I have 1 inch 40 watt Peerless Silk Dome. (This is already in a pair of bookshelves and it sounds amazing.). I also have a pair of Danity 1 inch silk dome tweeters All 8 ohms.
For the mid of the full range part of the 3 way I have a Boston 48414 40 watt RMS 8 inch 8 ohms.
For the woofer I have purchased Sweton SBS 10 inch double magnet.
I have all the TS for these speakers. And would like to thank Sweton for all the help provided. They really went above and beyond in answering all my questions.
I was thinking of using other brands like Doge but the Made in India bit for Sweton locked me in on putting money down. Also considered the 12 inch Pro series from Sweeton. But was told that this 10 Inch Home series would be better suited to my amps and application.
Some history on what I am using.
So one of the speakers donated to me was a bookshelf which consisted of the Same Boston 48414 with the peerless speakers.
To be honest I have never heard anything that sounds so good. Its even better than my Bose Book Shelf Series II speakers. Way better. The only problem being that these bookshelves have zero bass. Hence the idea to add a woofer to get some base.
I have two options I can build a separate box for just the 10 Inch woofer. And place the book shelf on top of it.
Or I can build a fresh 3 way setup. Where I will have the woofer, the full range and the tweeter.
I have the basic data entered up in winisd and I have been reading up.
My questions
1. What cross over points would I use for the woofer when designing the cross over. Im not going to ask for the cross over points for the Full Range and tweeter as I dont have the TS for them. So the plan will be to experiment. But if you want to throw a number out that would help.
2. When designing a box they always ask what freq you want to target. I know for subs they recommend a freq target off 30-35Hz. But this is for subs I could not find any recommendation for woofers. My TS says 43 Hz. So should I pick this value ?.
Did spend months looking thru various speaker specs before picking this woofer. It had to be something that was under 5K per pair. I am on a tight budget. I also have 4 x 4 Inch danity mids that I could use but I am convinced nothing sounds as good as the 8 inch Boston Full Range. Any help finding TS for these Boston speakers would be appreciated. I did read here that Philips used to make an identical speaker.
Have hooked up the 10 Inch Woofer 150 watt to my system without a box.
As it was 150 watt and my other channel was playing just a 40 watt bookshelf was expecting the woofer to be soft but funny thing it sounded just as loud as the 40 watt speaker in fact louder.
The other surprise was even though the Freq curve shows a shard drop off at 2000Hz it felt like I was listening to a full range speaker.
So far the best ported box size I could calculate for this woofer was 100 ltrs. Which is a bit to large for my limited. space.