Active Bookshelf Speaker build Dayton RS-180 & DC28FS

[Hi Ho]

Very nice work! I bet they do sound nice. I would love to do a pair of active speakers. The most difficult part for me is designing and perfecting the crossover and using an active device I could tweak on the fly would be perfect.

I built my speakers a few years ago and they are quite similar. It looks like you used the 8 or 10 inch version of the RS180? Mine use the 6" and are ported.

http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a327/Hi_Ho/Speaker Project/

They have gone through several iterations as far as the crossover is concerned. You can see the extremely simple crossover I started with at the bottom of the gallery.

 

[annunaki]

Very nice work! I bet they do sound nice. I would love to do a pair of active speakers. The most difficult part for me is designing and perfecting the crossover and using an active device I could tweak on the fly would be perfect.

I built my speakers a few years ago and they are quite similar. It looks like you used the 8 or 10 inch version of the RS180? Mine use the 6" and are ported.

http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a327/Hi_Ho/Speaker Project/

They have gone through several iterations as far as the crossover is concerned. You can see the extremely simple crossover I started with at the bottom of the gallery.

The RS 180 is what I used, it is a 7" driver. I am currently using a 12db/oct Butterworth filter high-pass at 2.03Khz on the tweeter with an 18db/oct Butterworth filter low-pass at 2.03 Khz. So far these have allowed for the best integration (slopes) I will play with the actual x-over frequency at some point as well. I cannot go too high however with the RS180.