The first thing I got was the TV speakers. I saw them in an electronics catalog that was sent to me in the mail out-of-the-blue. I thought they looked pretty neat, so I called the place and talked to a guy about them. He told me they came in cases of 54, so I ordered two cases. When I got them and started playing with them, I realized just how nice they were and ordered 18 more cases! They came on a frieght truck, on a pallet. That was pretty cool.
My first intention was to use them as full range drivers and make a single source line array. I made the panels you see. I measured the T/S parameters of a batch of speakers and came up with a good idea of the required box volume. I decided on a construction technique using ABS thick walled pipe, split in half for the panel edges. That determined the thickness, and I went to a full 36" for the width. I ended up with an internal volume that would be about 3 or 4 times bigger that what would effect the -3dB of the speakers.
I ran them full range for quite a while. They sounded really nice but they were a bit milky in the high end and they didn't have a strong low end. So I put an older pair of speakers I built behind them and used just the woofers. This was my first bi-amp system. I liked the control. I knew I had to add some woofers.
I had already done a neat trick with a really nice 8" woofer from MCM (55-1190). I used 4 of them in a cabinet in a dual isobaric design. So I updated that idea and put the woofers facing in opposite directions for less even order harmonic distortion.
Then, some time after that, I got a flyer from Parts Express. They were selling boxes of 200 tweeters! I ended up getting 2400 of them!
So, as you might have surmised, I have about 900 TV speakers and 2100 tweeters, in packing cartons in my house.
