Please beware that as of when this information was first put in place at this web site, it was highly incomplete. It may also take a fair amount of time for this loudspeaker plan section of this web site to become reasonably complete.
This section of this web site is recommended mainly for those who already have some knowledge of building loudspeaker enclosures.
Plans for a low cost bass reflex box to give fairly full range response from a cheap 5-inch driver. Bass -3dB point 54 Hz, and this fullrange works fairly OK without a tweeter. Sorry, power handling is only what you pay for, a watt or two continuous, 5-10 watts peak maximum for good sound and good reliability. (new document 10/2/96)
Plans for extra-deep bass from the Radio Shack woofer 40-1036. Large bass reflex boxes, also use in the rear decks of cars with trunks - no port needed there for amazing bass.
Plans for bass bins (bass sound reinforcement speakers) using Pyle's lower cost 15 inch bass guitar speaker, the MH1540. Use lots of MH1540 speakers and lots of box volume and you can get a lot of bass for your money. You can get more and deeper bass with these than with most 18 inch speakers and with horn-like efficiency, since the low cost of the MH1540 lets you buy more of them. (Slightly updated 5/12/96)
How to make piezo tweeters sound better!
Filter out frequencies below 800 Hz from the human
voice and reduce amplifier power requirements by 70 percent. Gain even
more if you use loudspeakers that specialize in frequencies above 800 Hz,
such as the usual non-reentrant 1-inch and 2-inch horns as opposed to
those muddy and muddy-squawky sounding reentrant horns and other folded
horns. (Not for music systems - use for voice communication
systems.)(new file 12/12/99 updated 12/26/99)
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