near fields using car audio speakers

[cshaw 0]

would i be completely wrong for designing and making my own 2.0 speaker play back system for my mains? i have nothing on which to play back so they would essentially be my near fields. for recording and such.( actually my left over car audio speakers in my closet lol) i have 2 mmats mid ranges along with tweeters and passive x/o

[JimJ 11]

Parasound, Rotel and others make high-quality multichannel amps, they show up on Audiogon all the time. Expect to pay $500-600...

[cshaw 0]

so scratch the original idea. im making some book shelfs for a friends new apartment. till he decides he has money to do the stereo, i made a test box at .5 sealed. mark recommended .7 ported at 45hz but i didt have enough scrap wood.

anyway, how important is spacing between mid and tweeter? and spacing between edges of enclosure? taking a look at pro audio studio monitors rounding the edges makes for smoother freq. response, wider sound stage, and baffle diffraction? am i close? im just trying to understand how to make good sounding books shelfs as far as the enclosure goes. thanks

Edited October 5, 2008 by cshaw

[Rybaudio 0]

You should space the midrange and tweeter as tightly as possible. The reason is that this minimizes the path length difference when you are off-axis to the speakers. You may not sit off axis, but sound radiates in that direction and bounces around the room, eventually arriving at you. I would worry less about spacing to the edges and rounding the edges, though for the former you might try to put the tweeter a different distance from each edge.

For an amp, I'd say go as cheap as possible... a Behringer a500 would work well.