Best Budget 2-Way Woofer? The $12 Dollar Driver || Dayton Audio TCP115 Woofer Review 

Hey everyone! Thanks so much for the positive feedback on this new video adventure. Much more to come! You can find the woofer and tweeter from the video here: Woofer - bit.ly/2KqkPEe Tweeter - bit.ly/2yQb0La and the rest of the products I used in the video under the description. Thanks again for watching!

Just wanted to say thanks. The variety of videos you post is what makes your channel my favorite speaker building channel out of the dozens I follow. Glad to see reviews with measurements added to your already wide variety of video types. Love it!

Thank you for this down to earth approach for DIY ideas dude! Not everyone has the resource(money) for pricey audio equipment while still want to enjoy good quality music/sounds. Appreciate folks like you to cater for our needs and informative knowledge sharing. Thank you Kirby!

Your plan to inspire worked well on me. Built a pair of two way speakers to hang under our kitchen cabinets to connect to the Echo dot. They sound great and look so much better than anything store bought.

Your videos have been amazing helpful I never knew how much thought went into building a speaker

i love watching your build videos the most but i love all your uploads

This was really great, glory! Really, really enjoyed this, built back in the day and now having to budgetize like a mo fo, can't wait to share this with friends who need cheap and good done

Really enjoy these more education videos. Your build videos are very nice but this really helps to understand what goes into the build. I like your style, very relaxed and not at all rushed like many. Thanks for putting in the time and sharing!

Hey Kirb, My 0.02$. I have been watching your vids off and on and have enjoyed them. the promise of more videos like this that I can use to make practical applications to my audio hobby has won over my subscription.

I used the Dayton 5 inch designer series in an mtm configuration in two different towers. They sound awesome and are fun to listen too.

bro your videos are so good! they have for sure inspired me I'm hoping to make a speaker soon

i want to thank you for your video's, and because of you i have built a few projects and i used you as a reference to do my thing. and every project exceeded what i thought i would build's. and so the next project is a sound bar which i have started listening to your newer series. again thank you for you do not really know just what you have meant to me and im sure many other's.

1:30 in and ur getting all technical, I'm gunna learn a lot from this channel. Subbed

That dip at 800hz is a reflection off the table. Not the baffle, not the ambient noise, not the mic or driver, nothing except the reflection.

Thanks BRAH! Really helped with making a decision to add base to a flat panel speaker system im building

DA is a great company! I've always love DA since I opened my car audio business. Well actually before but I can definitely attest to their quality!

Very helpful and awesome doing measures... loved it!

Even as an expert I still learn things so its nice to see an amateur such as yourself following that same path.

Fantastic. Been waiting for something like this on your channel. Although some of what you say is alien to me. I'll get there

Thanks for sharing Kirby!

Great content! I have loved your opinion from the start. I feel like I can trust your opinion without knowing too much about this stuff. Which means a lot for a channel like yours. I like the simple explanations even when it gets more difficult. I would definitely watch budget builds/reviews. For example, I have a computer and a Denon amplifier from the 90's paired with descend speakers. But no preamp from my computer to the amplifier. I can hear it needs one but I don't know much about them, what they do an how they work. So i have no idea what price point would give me what i want. The same goes for preamps for headphones, phantom power for mics... i'm just getting into this stuff and it feels like quite the rabbit hole haha. I'm always on the lookout for specialised youtube channels with honest looking reviews! so keep up the great work. You definitely improved your video's over time! Greetings from The Netherlands and have a great day Kirby ;-)

Love the videos! Keep them coming. Could you link the track that started playing at about 2 minutes in please?

like every video on youtube and every thread in any audio forum about speakers: not a word about the sound!!

Great video. Would be cool to see a mid tier portable speaker build from parts Express? Or if the higher end speakers aren't too much more than mid tier? Like the vifa speakers I loved seeing the graphs by the way and break down of how it measures. Exactly what people need when building speakers, almost my favorite part.

Great development! Like this new addition a lot. As opinion, I would like some comparisons! To a non-experienced speaker builder to-be, all the numbers say quite little when one have no experience to compare it to. To hear from someone who knows their stuff, which differences matters and which dont, when you look at different datasheets would help us at the bottom a lot!

A review with some measurement! Absolutely awesome! That is really hard to find these days! Please do go on, Kirby! As your near field measurement at 3:55 shows 3000 Hz seems to be the real upper end, as I already expected from Dayton's graphs. That fast drop there might be a resonance. If you measured a waterfall spectrum we could see more.

have these for my rear surround. pretty transparent and work great from 100hz to 500hz

More reviews like this please

Hi, kirby, I have been see all your tutorials and I love it . Please tell me how function the program to test speakers..Thanks

, I used this mid woofer along with the $8 dollar silk done tweeter to replace some drivers in a pair of KLH 3 way speakers I use at work in my maintenance garage. I'm powering them with the DTA-1 / T-AMP that you also did a video on. it sounds fantastic !!!!!!! perfect for what I need. I also replaced the 8 inch woofers in my KLH speakers as well. so now my KLH speakers are basically Dayton Audio 3 way speakers !!!!! I just kept the original crossovers inside the cabnets. I purchased two 25/8 inch X4 inch long port tubes from Dayton Audio to change my speakers from sealed cabnets to ported cabnets. I will do a sound comparison. Install one port and compair it to the sealed enclosure. if it sounds better, then I will do the other book shelf speaker as well. I personally think they will. oh, by the way, when I removed the drivers from one of the cabnets I noticed there was NO POLYFILL or insulation what so ever inside, ahhhh!!!!! no no no!!! I purchased some self stick 1/4 inch thick stick on insulation and some POLYFILL from Parts Express!!!!!! this will also help in the sound since I also upgraded the woofers to Dayton's 8 inch paper cone woofers !!!!!!!!!!!!😁 I truly think that the sound will be incredible when I get done reserecting these speakers from the dead, they were in storage for ten years and the drivers took a shit, tweeters were those cheap mylar POS. the woofers were literally frozen, stuck in place and wouldn't move back & forth to produce any sound. I may be looking into replacing the cross overs down the road to see if that helps as well because the factory cross overs are just simple resistor type bass blockers is all they are for the mid-range & tweeter. the subwoofer is wired direct to produce what ever it can with a full signal. this is typical common practice with cheaper speakers and I think with some quality upgraded proper crossovers, that they will sound much better. thanks for your videos Kirby, I subscribed to your channel as well, God bless & have a great day!!! keep up the good work. you are a great inspiration.

Hey, man! I've loved these videos for a while - your production value is impeccable and the speakers built just look like quality - but I'm wondering if you've done a more purpose-oriented video on creating an add-on subwoofer? Basically, I've got a little set of Fostex PM0.1 speakers that I love using for music production (I've learned how they sound and they work for me) but they lack in the low range. Do you think you could point me in the direction of, or create your own, video of a sub that can be used as a passthrough to the main speakers? Fostex's PSub Mini is cheap, but I'm betting it's large for my tastes and it'd be cool to build one myself. I just don't know how.

Videos like these do inspire, thanks bro. Would these sound good in a car a pillar with a tweeter 😂

One tool I didn't see in your links was the hole saw for the baffle cutout. Parts Express says 3.77" Baffle Cutout Diameter, but doubt there's exactly that size out there. I'm guessing 3 3/4", but want to know before ordering. I am looking at building a LCR sound bar using your DIY speaker series as a guide (same drivers, crossover) but in a sealed enclosure (I will be using a powered sub, so low frequency response is not as important for my situation). Appreciate these videos, I learned a lot!

When you have the mic right inside the woofer, you are making a near-field measurement. When you have the mic outside of a distance equal to 1/2 the driver diameter, it becomes a far-field measurement and the reflections from your workbench become significant, and that is why you start seeing dips. Dips come from anti-phase wave energy reaching the microphone in addition to the in-phase radiated energy. Near-field measurements are good up to some frequency related to the driver diameter, but ultimately the best thing is to put it in an infinite baffle, place the microphone 1 or more meter away, and then gate the reflections so they don't influence the measured response, and you will be able to get good high-frequency data (with limited low-frequency validity based upon the gate length), and then you can combine the nearfield and far field 1m measurement to get a continuous frequency response plot.

Hi Kirby, love your channel mate, great work...btw, bring back Jen 😉. Only comment is to ensure a broad sweep of the driver manufacturers, for me the channel seems to be sponsored by Dayton and for many we're also interested in the big boys like Scan Speak etc.... Keep up the great work, and a big thanks.

As my first build, I’d like to make a small boombox using 2 of these drivers & 2 tweeters.. what crossover & bluetooth amp would you recommend?

Thats a solid price for it.Dayton has some decent stuff for sure.

@KirbyMeetsAudio hey mate, wondering if you can tell me what or where you got those eye glass frames? would appreciate your help. thanks for the video's

Hey Kirby, do you have or are thinking of making any labyrinth speaker build kits?

Love your videos! 2 cents from a professional audio engineer; Most accurate result would be to measure at 1 inch to reject all reflections and room modes and compensate for proximety effect. The low end response of a microphone varies significantly the closer you place it to the sound source. I would measure the proximity effect of the mic at 1 inch and then deduct that amount to offset your measurement result and compensate for the artificial low end boost of the close mic placement. As is I don't think any of the measurements in this video are accurate enough to really tell us a true story. Love your work. Keep it up!

These look like they could be the same drives from the Dayton MK series speakers. I'm super impressed with the transmission line towers and matching center/rears I got for a basement 5.1 system that has me rethinking the value of the living room system costing 3x. Not crazy efficient but power is cheap these days.

Hi Kirbey, great video buddy. I'm actually surprised how this speaker performs (although from a short distance) Maybe it's useful to make a Bluetooth speaker from it! Question: what is the manufacturer and model of that cute tiny amplifier? Greets, Emiel.

can you still remember the title of the music at 4:55. I check the link in your description & it's not there. Thanks

, I have an old pair of RCA speakers that actually work with decent bass but needs upgraded bad for work. I'm buying two of these woofers and two tweeters that you recommend for 8 bucks and woofers for $12 bucks each. nice specs. should work perfectly. the cabnets are 10x6 1/2x7. about the size of the Micca 42Xs.

Hi, Looking for a replacement speaker for my SONOS Play 1. Can you recommend a Make & Model? Cheers Danny

how did you brake your harm building speakers?

Is it possible to do a 4 woofer series parallel mtm and put extra inductors on outer 2 to roll off the mids ?

Hi this is comfortable as studio reference monitor?

Which type of enclosure is good for this woofer? Ported or sealed

i need a good idea for putting mids and tweeters to balance the bass from 2 15 inch woofers in one box help

Which woofer is gud for a passive studio speaker

How would this do in a tline? And how long would you make it? Stuffing?

Adoro seu trabalho sou do Brasil,a qui no Brasil não tem esses woofers super bons como aí mas estou montando uma bookshelf pra mim.

Sir how u can calculate weight for other brand woofer in added mass in Dayton datsv3

Should I use it as a mid-range driver for my 3 way system?

Does it specifically the focal length from the length from the cone? I mean 2mm away can't sound good can it?

can you make a review o Dayton Audio DC28F tweeters

What is the little amp that you used ??

Idk if this is normal but when I got this driver, it’s sorta always had a Little rubbing if you push it down to to where the surround dimples

I bought two of these 👍

Pls tell me how is the imaging and soundstage of the tweeter? I wans something cheap to change my stupid old Philips no tweeter satellites

Kirby, The spec sheet lists 55-6000 Hz, how about an explanation of how this compares to your Mic test graph...please.

I got infinity rs3 tht can use more crisp and better sound bass wish 6.5 mid bass or speaker u recommend me

Could you review the dayton audio nd 65-8 next please? If so, thanks a lot👍

Should you have the lid of your laptop pointing right at the mic? The reflections must be affecting the sound.

What happens when I hook this thing up to a amplifier that puts out 100 watts for the sub, will it brake?

I have the 6.5" dayton audio classics paired with two ds18 PRO-TW120B's, and all connected to two Audiopipe 150W RMS crossovers. Sounds like a 400 dollar 2 way system for only 120 dollars.

What about the transfer function of that amp hahha? Is it flat enough for these measuremnts?

¿Do you think that a pair of Dayton Audio PS95-8, plus this little woofer is a good choice?, for a bedroom 2.1 audio system

HELLO RECENTLY BUY THE TWOETER Dayton Audio TD20F-4 3/4 OF 4 OHM AND THE WOOFER Dayton Audio TCP115-4 4 OF 4 OHM. CAN YOU HELP ME WITH THE VALUES THAT THE IDEAL CROSSOVER SHOULD CARRY FOR THIS COUPLE? I WANT TO BUILD IT I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR HELP

Hey quick question, I've got a pair of Micca MB42X Bookshelf Speakers. But one of my drivers blew, I was wondering if these would be good replacements. At 12 bucks this seems like a great deal. Would it be worth getting a pair of these to just replace both my drivers or should I aim to try getting the same Micca Drivers or something else? How would the TCP115 Compare to the HiVi B4N 4" Aluminum Round Frame Midbass?

I'm looking for a 4" 6 ohm version of this.

sooo, what is a recommended enclosure?

Do you really mean it whenever you said it only moves 4mm??? I have a really cheap Drok speaker that hits 20 Hertz like a beast and moves 2cm... that's 7.5 times greater... please tell me that that was a mistake and that you meant cm instead of mm...

Please make the video for speakers

Is this one better than the 105

Once again, Dayton comes through - best driver for the buck. BTW, price and sound quality don't necessarily correlate. I have heard some really "low end" drivers that sound awesome, and high end ones that sound awful. I've had many personal experiences with this. So don't worry about price, worry about sound.

Can the speaker use as subwoofer

Dayton makes decent inexpensive drivers. The only issues I've had with them is surround separation. Super glue fixed it in 1 min.

What would a pre assembled pair cost?

The FREE speaker build plans doesn't seem to work. I signed up twice with different email addresses and never received anything.

cool little guy! :)

Any tips on building an enclosure for a speaker you do not have technical specs on?

Hey Kirby, is it possible that you can send me the WinISD files? I don't find them in the web....

Where'd you get your hat from?

Having a table beneath your mic and driver affects the freq response massively. You could try suspending your mic and removing the table for less reflection? Great review nonetheless

What kind of money are we talking to buy a driver that rivals the big boys? If i wanted to build a rival to the 10kdollar stuff? Ive built a set using vifa speakers at about 20notes each and they sound incredible. Just curious

How much for this speaker?

800 hz is 1.4 ft wavelength. probably about the distance to the table top and back reflection

just measured one of these and the resonance is around 65 Hz

Are you wearing that NASA hat as a joke? If so, Haha!

I think both the tweeter and mid you showed is what dayton used in the MK402, which got some great reviews! Can't wait to see what you think on the finished product. BTW I meant to tell you last video, if you ever break an arm don't go to the same doctor, they'll put you in a body cast. lol

is a good product?

Is your hand okay .

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Nice

try making a pyramid themed box for some speakers

You guys in the USA are so lucky you have PartsExpress, we have f**k all here in the UK

Kirby Meets Audio+ Doesn't it matter if it's in a enclosure instead of wide open?

* what can I use it 20w woofer ranges* reply