Building my own monitors.

[TechMouse]

I had a chat with Dom about this. Dom ran Pure Filth for a very long time, and built the majority of the soundsystem himself. He also builds speakers for other people. He's very clued up on this sort of thing.

His general advice was that if you're building PA then it's worth building the speakers yourself as you can achieve similar results to the manufacturers. Soundsystems are rarely mass produced and if you're prepared to do a bit of learning you can save yourself some coinage by doing it yourself.

However, if you're building small speakers for home / studio listening then you're unlikely to beat the manufacturers. Professionally built Hi-Fi speakers and monitors have a lot of high quality R&D behind them which you can't possibly hope to emulate. Plus you won't have the economies of scale that a manufacturer has.

[Waits with baited breath for Dom to show up and say that I'm talking out of my arse]

[DannyBlack]

However, if you're building small speakers for home / studio listening then you're unlikely to beat the manufacturers. Professionally built Hi-Fi speakers and monitors have a lot of high quality R&D behind them which you can't possibly hope to emulate. Plus you won't have the economies of scale that a manufacturer has.

[Waits with baited breath for Dom to show up and say that I'm talking out of my arse]

I see what you're saying mate, but with a nice bit of cash and enough research I think I can do better. God I sound arrogant- but Im not! :lol:

[tonyc2002]

A very ambitous project matey! One idea would be to buy a set of high quality monitors and then cellotape a Danny Black sticker over the logo's :lol:

Seriously though, good luck mate ;)

[TechMouse]

I see what you're saying mate, but with a nice bit of cash and enough research I think I can do better. God I sound arrogant- but Im not! :lol:

Fair play man - I admire your enthusiasm, and I'm sure you'll have fun.

Let us know how you get on.

[DannyBlack]

Fair play man - I admire your enthusiasm, and I'm sure you'll have fun.

Let us know how you get on.

Bigtime! I will post up the plans for both the cabinets and the electronics and of course prices and the where I buy the components.

I love speakers, I have been collecting and building them since the age of 12* when I got my first hand me down JVC stereo and 70watt speakers. Goodtimes! Whatever way it turns out, I will have fun! :-)



*nowt hardcore, I wasn't a child genius. I was a stoner who liked bass.

[TechMouse]

*nowt hardcore

Mmmmm, speaker pr0n.