Educational DIY speaker kit.

[KEW]

I just finished reading Yepimonfire's thread, Building custom speakers without a design.

The TriTrix MTM TL speaker was suggested as an option. Looking at this, it looks like a nice kit and certainly the reviews are very positive. The design has obvious similarities to the highly regarded SongTowers and if the sound is anywhere close, it is probably an extremely good value.

Building a kit like this would familiarize one with the components and assembly process, but it was a bit disappointing to see that there was no information on how the design was developed (that I noticed).

I'm wondering if there might be a speaker kit like this which includes print-outs (or links) for the information, calculations, etc. used for the design process. Ideally a narrative of any major decisions/compromises made along the way might be included.
This would give anyone interested in speaker design the application and background to make reading the speaker design books a much more practical, and less theoretical, endeavor!

Does Madisound or any of the other manufacturers provide this type of background for their designs?

 

[Matt34]

Here is the designers home page where he goes over the design goals and reasons why he choose the components:

http://speakerdesignworks.com/Tritrix_pg_1.html

HTguide unoffical page:

http://www.htguide.com/forum/showthread.php4?t=29626

 

[KEW]

Here is the designers home page where he goes over the design goals and reasons why he choose the components:

http://speakerdesignworks.com/Tritrix_pg_1.html

HTguide unoffical page:

http://www.htguide.com/forum/showthread.php4?t=29626

Cool!

That adds a lot!

Thanks!

 

[Swerd]

The very inexpensive Parts Express BR-1 kit, is meant for DIY beginners, and its manual is the closet thing I know of to a introductory text on DIY speaker design.

Several articles on the Speakerbuilder.net web site are also good introductions to the subject. Especially the article titled Finding the Optimum Crossover Frequency.

 

[j_garcia]

The BR-1 says in the literature that it was setup in such a way as to be able to be used in the instruction of speaker design/construction classes.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Parts-Express posted some youtube videos on TriTrix assembly:
Imo same/similar methods could by applied to other speaker builds as well

 

[robot]

Madisound carries some kits from Zaph audio (http://www.zaphaudio.com/). Zaph has some really nice projects and gets very technical discussing his designs. A really great site.

Also check out Paul Carmody's site (http://sites.google.com/site/undefinition/diy), lots of good info there as well.

 

[ryebread]

Another source for decent kits is Zalytron.

http://www.zalytron.com/

Zalytron also builds some really nice MDF enclosures if you're not handy at woodworking.

 

[LabRat]

http://techtalk.parts-express.com/showthread.php?t=216432

Nearly bought the TriTrix but it was out of stock... After reading in the PE tech forum happened on the above thread. Now I'm waiting to see what kit they come up with. Likely going to build something this summer with the kids... You guys are likely aware of this but thought I would post...