Danny's favorite pair of speakers?! Introducing The BRUTE! 

I can sit and listen to Danny talk about this stuff all day, although I hardly understand any of it. 😁

I may not be in the market for a new speaker like the Brute, but what a great learning video of speaker basics - thanks!

Just fabulous work. Your creativity is awesome.

Danny: I Love the way you sell your speakers. You are preaching to your Converted GR Research Fan Base, who over the years have learned a lot about speaker component quality and measurements/effects. The Brute could be a very good thing for GR-Research. Congratulations Danny! Can't wait for the kit on this one. ( But post-COVID pricing is the only negative.)

I love big driver speakers for all the same reasons and it's hard to describe the "fun" aspect of a big ol set of speakers. I find myself listening to all sorts of music, I normally wouldn't whenever I've got my big speakers running. I can only imagine how good yours sound. Nice work and it's refreshing to see your old school design. That Woofer is cool!

Hello, Danny! An Old School pair of speakers done right. Nice! 😎👍

Congratulations on the Brute! I prefer a simple setup without subwoofers, and this seems to fit the bill!

Nothing like learning about cabinet bracing to create an inert speaker cabinet free of flex! Thank you for the inside data on the Bully!

I love the retro look and the modern build of them. But you really got me when you said it was fun! I really think that this hobby is meant for fun with music....

Loved this one Danny. This type of speaker is my favourite. Yes it has comprises in imaging and sound stage but as you've experienced the other qualities outweigh those things. The best speaker is an enjoyable speaker. I've been repairing and upgrading this type of speakers for years. Older Ditton 44 and things like that. There definitely making a comeback and for good reason. Your onto a winner here I'm sure

Reminds me of the shape and style of my black ADS L980. Spectacular speakers

Exciting stuff Danny! Good luck in Kentucky!

Truly inspiring video! The specs. look amazing... Well done, Danny.

They look fantastic I love this channel it’s so interesting as I love speakers 🔊

Nice. Well done Danny !

You have a very good construction design! Congratulations!

Excellent work sir. Many thanks for the video and explanations. Tom eh

Again love the possiblity you throw our way.

Danny, I’ve been watching you/your channel for some time now and want to say you are one of the most knowledgeable, informative, genuine, all around good guys I follow in this niche or any other!!! Thank you. Waiting for the Bully to be completed to see which option I like best of all.

Very interesting for a HT setup in a living room. No need of the subs and the clarity of the Bravo cc and surround...Nicely done, my wife will be very happy without the triple servo on each side! 🤣 PS Servo will remain in the dedicated room😉🥂

Love your new fruit box speakers can't wait to see the other two you're going to build I am so happy you're building box speakers now form genaro in Puerto Rico ✌️

This is cool! And it sounds like your future "Bully" sounds like it's gonna be even MORE impressive! I can hardly wait to see that model come out! (Even though I still cannot afford either of these models. :( )

What’s better than sitting listening to music with a good cup of coffee on a Saturday morning? This speaker sounds like it’s going to be a big winner. Great Stuff.

Love the look.

Great to hear you talk about music!

I recently received these Brutes , and listened to them on 16g everyday speaker wire . They sounded clean, I also bought some of Danny's 12 wire upgrade speaker cables.that I had to add my connectors.. To my surprise, Wow!! It really opened up the stage effects. And alot more..Thumbs up to this beautiful speaker that Danny has engineered....my mistake. I ordered the 24 wire speaker cables...

Great show.

Yea nothing like setting up a new system and everything comes together and works flawlessly. Got goosebumps just thinking about it!!!! Almost done with the system in my truck. Just got new Perrless tweeters and Seas drivers!!

They visually remind me a bit of the old Yamaha's. Nice to see them being so well made. Cabinet is key for this type of speakers.

The 3way designs are the best, I've been experimenting with using 4x 6.5 mid drivers in a group instead of one large woofer, for the low bass only, works well, very powerful.

Great videos Danny. Keep up the good work! Being in Texas, I'm wondering if that's a long horn "Bully" you're building....😀

Danny, this speaker looks great, and having you describe it as fun and the part where you’ve come to that conclusion based on listening to stuff like AC/DC, Pink Floyd, and especially one by Metallica, which is probably my favorite song to enjoy and evaluate new speakers, means that this might be my first try on a kit speaker, keep up the great work!!!

Great "tricks" with the ingredients!

I've been struggling to decide between the Wharfedale Linton 85th's and the Klh model 5's because I love the bigger vintage style speakers. Now there's the Brute added to the list. Urgh! Decisions, decisions...

Haha! “One” is one of my go to test track

I can feel your excitement about the music. I get the same way.

Danny, you killed this. What a comprehensive presentation and your excitement is palpable, great job.

Danny, if The Brute is the speaker over your left shoulder, someday I'm gonna getba pair. Those take me back to when I began my journey in audio

Sold! What an education in how to design and properly implement a complete speaker.

2k diy kit really out of my price range but I admire your work and built one of your cheaper kit years ago which is my favorite all these years.I wish I could have space to cut my own wood .

Nice... Interested! Now you should do a dual 12" open baffle similar to the spatial sapphire m4 series

I love my Sansui SP200's, I honestly do not need anything else, pure gold.

Jeez Danny you've really nuggeted up from the gym. Good to see mate.

Even Julius Caesar would love this Brute.

Danny, Your explanation of baffle step compensation using a three way configuration was quite enlightening. So much so that I followed suit but with a single driver with a contour network in a TQWT enclosure. In order to not mess with speaker's impedance, I implemented the baffle step compensation using a toroid choke || Resistor to Resistor voltage divider at the output of a preamp. As a result I was able to move the -3dB roll-off point from 57Hz to 43Hz. Furthermore the compensation yielded much better LF vs MF phase alignment. Many thanks.

Glad I watched this to the end. I WANT the first set of the next version with that massive driver. Is it a 15”?

I might need to swing by and steal these for a few days. I’m sure a handful of folks would be interested in some sound clips as well.

Big pro audio drivers can be amazing for hifi when done right. There’s so much headroom in terms of sensitivity and power handling, you can make them do whatever you want and there’s no need for ports or transmission lines to artificially pump the bass up. They don’t need it. Big clean bass, no group delay, big SPL. And they’re not expensive either.

Small size and room coupling are big advantages of sealed boxes. A sealed 12" can be the same size as a ported 10" or even 8". Properly coupled, a room boost is more-or-less the inversion of a sealed woofer's natural roll off. I swear Danny's tuning is the pro version of how I hack my car stereo to make it sound sweet.

Still love my gr-research av3’s!

My JBL L50s doubled in clarity when I rolled off the low end at 32hz 12db slope. The bass got more punchy and the vocals are so much smoother

What an absolute masterclass. I LOVE it

Hi Danny, I just learned about GR Research yesterday and you've pulled me down the speaker design rabbit hole. I look forward to your review of your upcoming Bully and Beast speakers. Is there anywhere I can listen to your Old School or NX speakers near Orlando, FL? Thank you for your contribution to audio!

Great illumination of the principles. Q; If the bass speaker is sealed from the upper, what about shaping the upper box into a narrower taper (either centered or asymmetric) to minimize the surface reflection? Or is the rectangle box structurally crucial to the whole?

I love my 1980’s infinity speakers. I recently listened to some $100,000 speakers. I’m ok with my oldies. Watkins woofers, emit and emims awesome.

I would buy these in a heartbeat, but over here in Turkey I would be crippled by the import tax... Great job 👍 Best wishes from Turkey 👍🇹🇷

A fair price, especially for a three way configuration. There's nothing similar out there for the same amount. However, if I were in line for such a speaker, I might consider a simple two way (on your right) over it, coupled with a single servo woofer. I never managed to find a good compromise for a single speaker, either it's closer to the front wall, with a good low frequency output, or it's more into the room with completely lacking 'bass', but really enjoyable midrange and the rest of it.

Here I am. Absolutely loving my GR x statics for about a year now... And Danny goes and makes these... cmon man.

Impressive I hope you send a pair Jay Lee’s way up in Canada.

I cant wait for these. I really hope I can get a set. NEED to ask the wife 😂😂😂

i am sure these sound like fun in a box :) and i got myself some 10" neodymium subwoofer drivers, and you cant even see the magnet on them, and yet they still produce a Force factor: Bl 21.4 Tm.

And I wish I could hear a pair of your speakers brother I guess I'm just going to have to buy some I might start with the little encores or the MTMs

Regarding bass: just made me think of Roy Alison speakers model one. Made to be against the wall, they sounded good in 1978

Great speaker, great explanation. I am wonder why the reflection area beside the speakers was left witnout any touch. It would be easy to do some improvements.

I've been waiting for someone to do a retro 3 way with a large driver, but with modern refinement. Well done Danny. Well done indeed.

>Looks fantastic! -reminds me of ATC.

Great work! I'm saving my pennies as we speak.

No, is not the Effect. I have a pair of TAD speakers that are wide (about 16 inc wide). There are the Yamaha NS-5000. Both those speakers well placed in a room, you do not hear them. Deal with the room, and they do disappear. Both are inert, that's the secret sauce. Do not toe them in. Leave them almost straight. The "transparency" is related to the wider high frequency dispersion on the small baffle. I feel a wider one sounds more natural. Do not over dampen your room. Dampen mids and it sounds so natural. I use this type of speakers. If I ever had to sell my TAD, I would buy these. Killer deal. This is to me the best type of speaker design out there after open baffle, but way easier to deal with in the room when you have no dedicated room. What a knock out! So the bullies will be a homage to B&W 808 I see :P

hi very impressive speakers indeed i have a question Sometimes i see 3 ways realized with a head containing midrange and tweeter above a bass box are there any benefits with this concept compared to a single big box?

You have again a hit , topconcept

This is a phenomenal set of speakers. I really enjoyed this video. Our house is very mid century in theme. I would need a grille cloth that looks very 50s to get it past my good wife. Where could i find such a cloth? I had a pair of old Scott speakers. They were terrible performers, but looked great. Thats the kind of look i need. Regards Guy.

Question: How would the sound be impacted if these were set up on their sides? (rather than conventional vertical orientation) Great post! Thank you for all the deep dive on design theory.

I think Danny has taken a hint from Troels Gravesen . This more traditional speaker configuration has been very popular.

Danny, would that speaker benefit from having a thick pad of felt pad adjacent to the tweeter and mid range area? I see a lot of Uber expensive speakers that come standard with those type pads?

Dude man, you gotta try blending old school new school. I swear by that approach!

Looks cool for an old guy like me. I'm looking forward to seeing the BULLY. Any idea when that's going to happen @Danny?

.,. Following up on the NX studio idea, perhaps you could even do it to both the mid and tweeter being over there in a corner of the box like that they kind of beg for it....might have to figure out how to make it aesthetically pleasing but could be an amazing dipole effect

what is that black rubberized texture on the box? I love it and would want to do mine that way if I build the kit!

The technical explanation is so valuable. In the audio world it's so hard to know what reviewer to trust, but I think anyone can be confident that they are buying a great product here.

If the only speakers I have ever loved were matched pairs of Quad ESL 57's or KLH 9's, could someone please recommend one of Danny's small speakers that might have similar midrange? I would like to use them on my desktop, in the near field, but with a pair of REL subwoofers.

Hey Danny, if I want to build my own enclosure, how much internal volume does the mid and woofer each need? If I provide the woofer with a little more volume, will that allow it to reach lower but with a reduced transient response? I don't want to mess with the balance you've achieved here.

Thanks Danny

Could there be an advantage in placing the mid-woofer in the corner above the tweeter? I built speakers with similar drivers in the 1980s. The crossover frequencies were at 800 hz and 3500 hz. ( 3rd order) . In that case it seemed putting the tweeter in the middle of the the Mid and woofer on the baffle made the response smoother. Did you try that configuration, or are there potential problems with that configuration?

How would this compare to the Encore or Bravo with a subwoofer?

👍🏻😎 Nice speakers.

I love the retro look of these, I would love to combine it with Yamaha's R-N2000A with it's VU meters and chunky knobs.

Danny what is a 'small' room? or a medium sized room? For those of us that don't have 'Texan cupboard'. Ft is good. 16x 13? 20x15?

Bringing back Acoustic Research acoustic suspension box speakers like the AR-3a with those tiny magnets and low-Q bass drivers.

curious about the woofer, since the suspension looks long throw (and eminence usually use ribbed cloth) but you hinted that its not, do you have a spec on xmax?

Would it be worthwhile to add a pad (or even vertical bands) of No-Rez on the baffle next to the mid-tweeter? That should cut most of the higher-frequency reflections. I understand some people might not appreciate the looks, but if you're single (like me) or have a dedicated listening room, then it might work well.

Danny , would putting some deflection absorbing or scattering material on the face of the enclosure to the side of the mid driver and tweeter help negate the reflection?

Are these speakers mirrored? I couldn't tell from the video. Also, why not angle the side that is furthest from the M&T so that after it comes up above the woofer, it heads over very close to the tweeter, thus reducing the interaction with the baffle? You could make up the loss of internal volume by making a deeper or taller cabinet. It seems that something we've learned in the "modern speaker era" that's well worth retaining. Nice work and interesting video, bro!

Probably recess the right reflective surface in a backwards angle and add a sound absorbing material on the recessed surface?

If you cut out the big flat part of the large baffle would it help with the baffle issues he was talking about?

Danny, would adding an absorber to the front baffle help with the surface diffraction?

Please make a kit for the Cerwin Vega E-710s 10" 3 way tower 95db already a brute for a 10" tower would love to hear some with upgrades

At 29:37, shut up and take my money, Danny! 😂😅

This is actually what I need, a full range XLS ENCORE🙂👍✌️🇺🇲🇵🇭

What's the distortion figures on this Speaker @ 96dB? 106dB? - Max output?

very nice