Making The Crossovers For My Speakers PLUS Sound Test 

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Interesting project! From my past experience building speaker cabinets and crossover coils, I suggest: 1. Make the coil core from 2 opposing wood wedges - it'll make removal much easier. 2. Never place 2 coils in a crossover in the same plane - they must be at right angles to reduce cross-talk.

Nice job, but simple “upgrade” suggestion: you should always be sure both coils are not in the same plane to avoid electromagnetic interference...

Such a cool project, always wanted to build my own speakers.

Great video, thanks John. Thanks for replying to my concern about heat build up. I didn't realize that the components run cold, or at least cool. Good to know, thanks.

John you are amazing, not only as a wood worker but an all around person with great diversified abilities, not to mention good old fashioned common sense. Your commentary is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!! Please do not give this up!!!!!!!!

Nice build, I think your voice overs are really good too.

Those are a nice looking speakers! Thanks for sharing John

Wow, John! You can tell those speakers sound f’n killer, even after YT has compressed the hell outta the original audio signal. Normally, you can get a vague gist of what spkrs sound like after YT has basically destroyed the quality of sound, but it’s quite obvious you’ve built yourself an amazing pair of spkrs. Even listening to them through a shitty pair of computer spkrs I hook up to my iPad, they sound great! Well done, dude! Very well done...

Those seemed to have great audio quality. Thanks for the great build.

Really appreciate this video and the diffuser video as well. Would love to see you continue doing more audio builds every now and then. An isolation platform would be cool to see. Or a fancy turntable plinth. Keep up the great work!

Loved the video, John...especially the creative editing you incorporated. As far as I can tell from my crappy phone, the speakers sound as great as they look!

Great build! Once I was building my speakers way back in time I got the advice to orientate the inductors 90 degree to each other to avoid the magnetic fields to interact too much. Probably nit picking but did not take any extra time or cost so why not.

Nice job, John. Years of enjoyment will follow.

The video is good, the article is excellent. I would have assumed a ferrite core improved induction, but the distortion makes sense. Inspirational. Thank you.

Sounds good to me, especially considering the chain from computer to amp to speakers to air to mic to recording software etc....great build series

I hear that first song every time my wife comes home from work.

John, I have hand wound hundreds of toroids/inductors for home built radios (mostly amateur radio). I typically heat my soldering iron up as high as it goes and use a blob of solder to burn off the enamel and tin the wire all at the same time. Works for me.

Given that my cell phone has never sounded so good, hooked up to a good system and in a proper room (not your workshop for a laundry list if reasons we wont go into in this comment) that speaker sounds amazing !! You've made me want to go down the audiophile rabbit hole again !

You are a multi talented guy John. Nice job!!

Great video you can tell you actually know what you are doing. Speakers look and sound great. Thanks for the great tips.

Very nice! Now speaker complete and sound is impressive! Thank you for video!

John, I don't know about others, but when you got to the point of the music playing, on my Bose Quiet Comfort 135 headphones, which I use to listen to YT videos, it was quite impressive. I can only imagine the sound that you were hearing.

Impressive sound. I may try your crossover for some speakers I have in my shop. Some separation of highs and lows would improve them. Good job Sir.

Thank you, sir, for this content-rich, interesting, and angst-free tutorial. It's a very useful, helpful, and practical, contribution to the I-canon about DIY speaker-building. Your project result is also handsome and audio-excellent (as far as we can tell this far removed from the audio source).

I really impressed with your skills, original approach and creativity. There is something to learn. Thanks for sharing

Great video. Thanks John. I appreciate you judicial use of hot glue and the humour associated with it. Also, I have the same receiver. Plus, I assume that you were doing “The Dance of Joy” at the end.

Clever, capable man. Great sounding spraker in beautifully constructed and finished artisan cabinet. The coming together of 2 disciplines.

Most excellent! You don't need me to tell you how good a job you did! Lexan or plexi is best because 1) It looks good, and 2) it is non-conductive and will not absorb moisture. I made two or three large networks almost EXACTLY like this in 1997 for car audio installs. I still have a 20 pound box full of Axon, Solen, and SCR PP and PS 600V capacitors, Solen Litz wound and standard wound 12ga and 14ga inductors, and numerous non-inductive wirewound 0.5% axial resistors with 16ga tinned OF copper leads. Love your projects!

Well done John, impressive sound! 👍🏻🔊🎶👂👊🏻

Cool project!

I appreciate the work this guy does. He can't help it (nor can I...) but his explanations just put me to sleep. When I wake up, I rewind the video and I fall asleep again. And it's all information I want to digest! Oh well. I'm sure it's just me. Live long and prosper!

Impressive sound right out of the box with no break in. Subscribed.

Well done John. thank you for your great videos

Great video! Taught me a lot! A plus was that I wanted to hear what classical music sound like in one of those. Thanks!

You make a very good video sir ! Very clean clear English,,, no stupid music in the background.. thank you !

Sounds Nice! Speaker reminds me of the old Infinity RS series

Enjoyed the video, John. Sounded damn good to me, even though I'm listening to it on my cheap computer speakers.

Nicely done! Classy, wooden look of the speaker box. And the POV waltz dance simulation at the end, haha, cool! :D

Nice and neat DIY two way-crossover network. I also would love to see more of this with three to four way connections.

Awesome Job John they Sound Great!!

They look and sound good from here. Thanks John..

As always, your work is inspiring. I have to toot my own horn a little. I made my very first successful solder the other day. I can weld with the big boys but I can't solder to save my life, lol.

What a great video! Thank you for posting.

John those look fantastic. Impressive

oh man, you should release a sound file of what you were saying when trying to remove the coil from the jig. i bet it'll keep my ears warm through out the cold, cold winter :)

Wow the sound so clean n clearly hear..

DIY I love it good job you do all the same tricks and short cuts I do nice job man

I love the speaker build. I just finished building your table saw fence from the plans I purchased. It's the best fence I've ever had!! Thanks and keep it up!

I did a madisound kit build with very similar vifa drivers back in 2000. It was pretty good, especially for a few bucks

They sounded Amazing really from an audiophiles point they are what I would want in my serup

Nice job, meticulously clean and tidy.

10:15: You waltz divinely.

This put a smile on my face :)

Such a nice and clean job congratulations. Thank you for the vídeo and share It . My English Is not good ,but you speak such relaxed that I understood everthing you said thank you from México.!!

Great vid. 👍 As always illustrates how during this Covid 19 stay at home what do I do scenario can be beneficial in so many ways to taking time out and with family as well, to build some amazing (OR renovate ) gear. Sound is very relative and I've built all my own home systems including an awesome 7 channel surround system for peanuts using stored in the loft over the years, parts and pieces. I always remember back in the 70s having a Phillips cassette deck and adding an extension speaker mod (No additional amplifier) to it and the sound improvement / output was astonishing, which led me over the years to experiment with changing the sound et to suit my own preferences. Adding tone circuits is easier than most think which can drastically improve sound output 👀👍

these turned out very nice! i like the custom crossover too!

Muito boa dica, dá para personalizar o corte de frequência com o gosto do cliente , excelente.

Music to my ears. Great pair they look better than my B&W speakers

It's beautiful.Only to exclude mutual influence, it is necessary to turn one of coils on 90 degrees

Those look awesome. Great work

Nice works brother, you are so patient , by spooling the coil your self......

You have inspired me to build my own crossover’s from spear parts

Spit out my coffee right about here (@6:13) LOL Thanks for the video

The insulation was a neat trick, not something I would have thought of. Thanks for this series, inspiring me to give this a try. I needed a project to practice my soldering on anyway.

Great idea for polyfill!

Beautiful work!

Wow ... nice work John ! That speakjer sounds great ! :-)

I used R20 on the first speaker I built. Actually, I didn't have any woodworking tools, so I got some used boxes. Anyway, they were originally very boomy, but when I added the R20 the bass tight end up nicely and got punchier. So it works well in the cheap!

Good job! RadioShack used to have a book you could buy. It was all about the art of speaker building ported and unported.

Thanks John!

I’m telling you this is so awesome! I am constantly thinking about home and car audio builds and love the craftsmanship that went into these homemade crossovers ! Awesome video!

Looks and sounds great!

Excellent video John

Great looking speakers. Good work.

INCREDIBLE AND AMAZING YOUR WAY TO WORK ALLWAYS CHECKING EVERY DETAIL....CHEERS FROM MÉXICO

Pretty impressive Jon.

Hi John, nice work.

Would love to see you and Focus Master doing a Viennese Waltz around the shop.

I laughed because your old yamaha receiver is the exact one i still use today ! :) gj !

With the ring connectors I like to take the plastic portion off. Tin the speaker wire like you did. Insert the wire into the ring connector and somewhat crip it then solder the wire to the ring connector as well, leaving you with a very reliable connection (You can heat shrink it after).

Bravo

Grandioso amigo gracias por compartir!

Neat speakers, nice made

*"Getting better with practice, just when the project is all done"* is now a phrase ready to adorn the wall of my workshop alongside with, _"I said I'll do it. You don't have to remind me every six months", "Appart from sawdust, I also make some things"_ and _"If hitting it with a hammer is not effective, use a bigger hammer."_

you are the man John.

EXTREMELY helpful. Thanks!

Nice work john!!

I really like how it looks. Maybe make one that has it on the outside.

Thanks for sharing !

Beautiful!

Sounds great on my iPad!

Get a mini butane torch! Super useful also for heat-shrinking electronics, much faster than a lighter!

Very Good Job and it looks great

Cool project. Well narrated

In reading about crossovers I too was impressed with what I read about 2nd order Linkwitz Riley, but eventually found multiple sources to say that while 2nd orders look good on paper, more components means more external affect on the audio signal and that the 1st order is usually the best and series is preferred over parallel. Pretty much every audiophile I spoke to about crossovers said that in today's world, digital crossover is the way to go. Digital crossover means no passive components in the audio stream, so I take this to reinforce the idea that the less passive components you use, the better. Also the cap on the tweeter in a passive crossover needs to be bypassed to allow the higher frequencies to pass more easily. Use a 0.01uF cap, and the cornell dubilier 940c 3000vdc is said to be excellent for this purpose.

@3:35 - I've tried. Clear quarter-inch acrylic, clear quarter-inch acrylic, quear clarter-inch acrylic. ;D

Sounds real good.

Really awesome! Are you planning on testing the frequency response of these speakers?

Nice and clean