Designer:

Mort

Project Category:

Loudspeakers/Cabinets

Project Level:

Intermediate

Project Time:

20+ Hours

Project Cost:

$100 – $500

Project Description:

HiVi-Swan DIY 3.1 Lego speaker

Design Goals:

Take my hobbies speaker building and my Daughters hobby Legos and combine them.
Make a great speaker that I could incorporate Legos on to.

Driver Selection:

The kit came with 6.5 inch woofers. 2 inch Dome midrange drivers, and isodynamic ribbon tweeters

Enclosure Design:

MDF Ported enclosure

Crossover Design:

three-way fourth-order reverse-phase design.

Tips & Tricks:

Align the cabinet seams flat with tape before gluing them it makes it easier to work fast with the glue and clamps.

Iron the grill material and pin it to a cork board or equivalent and work one side at a time on to the frame using contact cement work and finish the corners last.

Conclusion:

This speaker kit was perfect for my finish design goals. They were fun to build and they sound fantastic. The look of the Lego finish turned out better than I originally envisioned. I know my Daughter is going to love them. They will make great sounding platforms for her to display her latest Lego set on.

About the Designer:

I have been an Aircraft structures mechanic for 27 years and an audiophile all my life.

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