I am not planning on going cheap if that is what you mean. But there are some limits, like cavity of the speaker is limited to about 6" deep, 15" wide and anywhere from 40 to 60" tall. These dimensions are because i want it mounted into the wall. So the woofer is 8" and is the CDT-800CF. I was going to do a sealed enclosure because from what i understand the woofer hits 0 db around 200hz if it is not ported. I am not sure what to do about the midrang
e which is a DS18 PRO-NEO8 8" which i hooked up in a temp system and sound good but I am thinking it is not as high quality as i wanted so i might switch them out. The tweet is the Dayton Audio AMT3-4 Air Motion Transformer Tweeter 4 Ohm, i know it is not the best tweeter and the AMTPro-4 is better but money is not unlimited. So right now i have already into it $600 dollars for the speakers and 300 for the amp. I still need to build the crossover and speaker box.
So I would like as high fidelity as possible on my budget.
Does this help? Do you have suggestions for a better Midrange woofer?
Going about it the way you are, you will have a very low fidelity speaker.
You don't have the first clue how to go about it. No, not the first clue.
We continually get these posts, of I'm building a three way speaker and how to I do it and I'm tired of it.
Well we can't reply meaningfully here, as it is literally a text book, which we can't put in a post like this.
You can't just buy drivers and expect to make a speaker. You have to carefully select drivers that it is feasible to blend into a decent speaker. If you just buy speakers at random, then you will almost certainly have a combination that will not work whatever you do.
After making sensible choices, then you have to decide the optimal loading of the woofer and work out the optimal box form the Thiel/Small parameters of the woofer.
In your selection you should have chosen drivers that can be crossed far enough apart to make the band pass gain manageable. This is where three ways get really tricky and a major reason why you never choose a three way for your first project as they are a very steep climb indeed.
Crossover points and slopes are determined by the acoustic responses of the drivers and their break up points. This requires computer modelling. Before computer modelling in the early eighties this was a huge task with a lot of trial and error. Even then just about no one got a three way right unless they were very lucky.
One absolute rule is that you can never make a speaker worth listening to from an off the shelf crossover. All speakers require unique and custom crossovers designed with consummate skill and care.
You have already got way off on the wrong foot by purchasing drivers before you have a functional design. You were miles away from the design purchase point.
