Designer:
Banger Speakerz

Project Category:
Tower Speakers

Project Level:
Beginner

Project Time:
20+ Hours

Project Cost:
$500 – $1,000

Project Description:
Always wanted to build a nice set of tower speakers so this is what I ended up doing. 69.5″ tall hand made speaker enclosures with 2 subs in the rear, 6 woofers and 2 mids and 1 ribbon tweeter in each tower.

Design Goals:
My design goal were more of an elegant look for the most part but I also wanted some sound quality too.

Driver Selection:
6 HiVi M6N woofers, 2 HiVi M3N midrange and 1Beston ribbon tweeter
2 TangBand 6.5 subs in the rear of each cabinet along with a Dayton Audio 100w plate amp

Enclosure Design:
Slim design at 69.5″ tall 8.5″ wide and 8.5″ deep.

Enclosure Assembly:
Enclosure is all made out of 3/4″ Mdf wood. Front face place and base stand painted to a high gloss black finish and a fir wood veneer around the enclosure stained with Red Sedona finish

Crossover Design:
Custom 3-way crossover

3-Way Crossover Network

Low-Pass (LP) Filter:

1 required

Type:

2nd-Order All-Pass (APC)

Desired Corner Frequency:

Band-Pass (BP) Filter:

450 Hz

1 required

Type:

2nd-Order All-Pass (APC)

Desired Lower Corner Freq:

450 Hz

Desired Upper Corner Freq:

4500 Hz

High-Pass (HP) Filter:

1 required

Type:

2nd-Order All-Pass (APC)

Desired Corner Frequency:

4500 Hz

C1 =

3 μF

, Polypropylene, 0.00764 ohms

C2 =

68 μF,

Polypropylene, 0.00192 ohms

C3 =

5.1 μF

, Polypropylene, 0.00697 ohms

C4 =

33 μF,

Polypropylene, 0.00269 ohms

L1 =

0.25 mH

, Air Core (#16), 0.302 ohms

L2 =

2.5 mH

, Air Core (#16), 0.538 ohms

L3 =

0.2 mH

, Air Core (#16), 0.273 ohms

L4 =

3 mH

, Air Core (#16), 0.595 ohms

Band-pass Gain = 2.08 dB

Conclusion:
Very happy with my outcome in the major project. The clarity is right where I’d hoped it’d be. Crystal clear to my ears

About the Designer:
Always wanted to tackle a wood working project and something like this has been in the works for a long time. I’m an aerostructures painter so I stay busy with working lots of overtime and trying to spend as much time as I can with my family so this project took me many late nights and weekends to complete. I’m thankful for all the advice I was giving for any questions I had about this project and for my family and friends that had to listen to countless hours of how excited I was during the whole project. I’m by no means a carpenter but I think I’ve learned a few new skills along the way and look forward to making many more projects like this one!

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