I get asked a lot about recommendations for home audio speakers, and it's hard to argue with the value of DIY speakers. But just Googling for random plans can be a little intimidating sometimes if someone doesn't quite know what they're looking for. Figured we could start a little list of pre-tested homebuilt projects for people to look through, to get ideas for their own stuff. Feel free to add any that you come across.

http://www.zaphaudio.com/ - John Krutke's excellent site, concentration on smallish 'bookshelf' monitors and component comparisons

http://www.frugel-horn.com - full range, single driver, crossoverless designs

http://www.speakerbuilder.net/ - a good mix of bookshelf and floorstanding speakers, easy-to-obtain parts

http://www.humblehomemadehifi.com/ - very wide variety of tested speaker designs, from the economical to the no-holds-barred high end

http://www.partsexpress.com/projectshowcase/homeaudio.cfm - the PE project showcase. Lots of different ideas to try out

http://t-linespeakers.org/projects/index.html - transmission line speakers and subwoofer plans

http://www.quarter-wave.com/Projects.html - Martin King's quarter-wave speaker projects section, excellent information if you're thinking about building a tuned quarter wave pipe of any kind.

http://www.zillaspeak.com/bib.asp - probably the simplest-to-build horn plan out there, a good single driver, no-crossover solution. The companion thread on DIYAudio is here: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=66173

http://members.myactv.net/~je2a3/open.htm - JE Labs open baffle plans. If you're curious about getting openly baffled, might be a good place to start looking

http://passdiy.com/speakers.htm - Nelson Pass' superb DIY section. Small speakers, BIG cabinets. Big fun.

http://www.quadesl.com/tidytl.html - compact transmission line plans for the highly-regarded Jordan JX92 full range speaker

http://planet10-hifi.com/boxes.html - Planet10's box plan library. Related to the frugel-horn project, this is *the* place to start looking if you're thinking about CSS FR125 4.5's, Fostex or other single speaker ideas.

Don't forget the HTGuide

http://www.htguide.com/forum/forumdisplay.php4?f=6

edit: Lots of Dayton speaker DIY designs and other speaker projects

wow, excellent thread Jim

so many projects, so little time

Great job Jim!!

going to take me a while to read through some of the T-line quater wave stuff.

There are some Fullrange Projects and a Subwoofer Project at my site: DIY Audio Projects..

planet10/frugel-horn > *

James Melhuish designs:

http://melhuish.org/audio/DIY.html

Can't forget http://www.linkwitzlab.com/

Can't forget http://www.linkwitzlab.com/

You beat me to it.

The Orions are on my dream list.

wow! this is JUST what i was looking for! thanks jim!

This is most definitely sticky worthy

Update...

It's in Danish, but this site seems to have some cool horn plans...including the Hedlund horns, want to build a pair of those some day

http://www.sloejd-kbh.dk/tema/speakers/speakers.htm

Anything like, DIY Headphone guides?

Why?

Why?

 

Did you really have to ask?

Eventually looking to upgrade my surround back and side speakers..... I am running Definitive Technologies 800 Pro series... I would like to jump up to some higher power handeling surrounds.... Any advice?

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Edited January 30, 201411 yr by SpeakerBoy

 

Why?

 

Did you really have to ask?

 

I'm just asking, quit giving me shit come on.