Finished my DIY Speakers with GR Drivers

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DannyBadorine

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Finished my DIY Speakers with GR Drivers
« on: 9 Mar 2022, 03:38 pm »
These are 3-way Tri-amped speakers based on GR's X-Statik.  The bottom with 2x M165 drivers is pretty much the same as the X-Statik.  The mid is a single M130 and the tweeter is a deep cup Bohlender Graebener Planar Tweeter.  With the help of Norman Tracy who sent me several different baffles to test, this is the final result and I couldn't be happier.  They are still breaking in but the sound is already revealing and accurate.  These GR speakers are very easy to work with in the crossover design (currently being handled by a mini DSP 4x8).  The mid range has a separate tuned and sealed enclosure.  The baffle was designed to work with either the open back or closed back Planar tweeter.  When I tested it outside with a single open back GRS Planar I got much better results and could take my crossover point much lower but I only have one of them so I stuck with the B&G back cup for now, which might be better anyway because they have to be close to the wall.





Here's the graph with the GRS tweeter and a simple crossover (1st, 2nd and a third order).



The off axis response and waterfall graphs are really clean also. 

Thank you Norman Tracy for your work, flawless flat pack and baffle design!




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Re: Finished my DIY Speakers with GR Drivers
« Reply #1 on: 9 Mar 2022, 03:49 pm »
Wow, very cool Danny! Excellent work.

DannyBadorine

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Re: Finished my DIY Speakers with GR Drivers
« Reply #2 on: 25 Apr 2022, 09:18 pm »
Re-visited my speakers.  Replaced the tweeters with the newer B&G shallow back cup, which has a much easier frequency response to work with.  Then I designed a new crossover with a baffle step circuit on the mid-range.  200Hz-15KHz is +/-2db.  My wife says everything sounds like the instruments and voices are right there.  The measurement below 200Hz has some problems from the room, but gets better when I put the speaker on the ground.  The bottoms of these speakers are the X-Statik and they are hitting F3 around 48Hz and they have a ton of punch because they're sealed.  I'm so stoked on this.  I don't anticipate needing any subwoofers. 


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Re: Finished my DIY Speakers with GR Drivers
« Reply #3 on: 25 Apr 2022, 09:32 pm »
That's impressive.  Nicely done!! :thumb: