Thank you for all the responses, both the nice ones and the bad. This isn't the first speaker I've ever built. It is actually my 6th high end DIY speaker. For those interested, here's another example of a speaker I built long ago: www.hifimusic.co.il/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%98-DIY-%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%A2-i3.html Besides that, I can tell you that before I built this speaker in this version I made it from wood - inspired by the b&w design. It's a shame I can't add a picture here, but I'll try to make another video for you, where I'll show you the older version. Besides, I will upload another video of a DIY speaker that I built, using Focal 11' woofers, Mid-woofers - 7' Eton, Morel Supreme and and Aura Bass - 15' used by many different high end companies.
Yep, agreed, you're crazy! ;) How did you design the crossover? The parts you used are definitely highest end, glimmer cap, copper foil and wax coils, Mundorf's Supreme and Evo caps and Supreme resistors etc. How does the frequency response look like?
Man that is amazing my friend, applause to you I love that you actually put this much effort in, if they sound as good as they look I know you've got somethin special
Unbelievable fantastic job. I am always amazed at the money and time people spend doing something they love. Total work of art and unfortunately you still get some thick people talking about not using dampening material - give people credit where its due for once.
Excellent speaker design. That room needs a lot of treatment though. The RT 60 times must be through the roof with a linoleum floor and a huge glass wall along one side.
They remind me of the B & W 800 series? If I'm right? Well done! I'm currently making my second Hi-Fi rack. I nearly set myself alight earlier when I was grinding the steel... Joyful memories.
For everyone saying that it is not correct to make speakers out of metal. That is absolutely false. If they were made out of thin sheet metal I would agree that they would sound tinny. If his drivers have enough power 2 make a box that heavy duty resonate at all it would blow a wood speaker box to pieces.
metal body it is not recomended for good sound quality....all expensive speakers it is made of wood...for this reason you have to calculate how many litrs speaker box you made, how big is your speakers and how much speakers put inside the box....SOUND its not simple,it is heavy science..more than you thought....
ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΜΑΡΤΙΝΟΣ the point of an enclosure in its simplest form, keeps the out of phase sound coming from the rear of the speaker from being audible. aluminum that is that thick will not resonate at all! making it the absolute ultra box. if you dont have enough power to make the enclosure resonate (which it does not) it will not make any resonance. This would be equivilent to building the enclosure twice as thick out of the hardest wood available. as far as box volume goes (litres) it would be calculated the same way as a wooden enclosure, internally. as I said before, if this box was built from thin sheet metal it would resonate horribly, and sound "tinney" but that is because there is enough power to resonate sheet metal. Trying to get these enclosures to resonate would be the equivalent of trying to resonate an engine block with a couple of woofers, not going to happen!
The point is that you'll get nothing by making the cabinet out of aluminium as opposed to MDF or whatever layered wood B&W is using, because the cabinet was designed to be DEAD in the first place, so you might as well make it out of solid rock, it won't make much difference. This is just an example of absolutely ridiculous over the top manufacturing of something that makes it cost about 30 times more than it would if it was made as efficiently as it can, and would still perform the same. I have a feeling this guy basically had access to a CNC machine and a lot of free time and money, so he did it just for the hell of it. It's just very inefficient and ultra expensive.
Hey Avi what kind of cross over did you use? Difficult to identify from the video. I am Trying to build some more modest ones but how could I find better inspiration than your work! Thanks for sharing.
To say all of the best speskers are made of wood is untrue. Aluminium is a very low resonant material when it's thick enough. Check out Omega Audio Concepts, they're truly astonishing products.
Ummmmmmmmmm wow im speachless you my friend are one crazy @#$%^&, those speakers look amazing and damn good job done, just one question how do you move them they must weigh a ton
No question they are beautiful. The CNC work is amazing. But I am more amazed by seeing Texas Speed make a CNC engine block from billet Alu. Not the first time I've seen a B&W 800 DIY knock off. This is clearly the best. I have to think if you take material cost and machine time, these are more expensive than the commercially available speaker. So I don't get it. If you buy the commercial product you have not violated their IP and you get their sound. Then, if you feel you want something else, the B&W has a resale value. These likely not. After all, they are a copy. Selling them would invite a legal challenge. Likely not a market for DIY anyways. I'd be more of a believer if there was some way of conveying the sound produced and how it compares to the 800. Even the smallest deviation from the actual 800 can completely change the sound. And likely not for the better. They use cast aluminum for the mid enclosure. I have to think MDF will be very different. They put dampening material between the 3 cabinets. Missing that point will change the sound. I am not hating. I build DIY speakers and love the combination of handcrafting and knowing I did it. I think these are beautiful.
Crazy speakers, fantastic job. These houses must be dead as hell, with great choice of speakers. Are you satisfied with the sound? Try the album Rossiter Road from Ahmad Jamal, must sound nice.
Well , is quite sound engineering, to get a nice response from some acoustic drivers the enclosure shouldn't be resonate at all , i know anyone will say use mdf ...la la la , but if the enclosure would start resonate that will transform the box in ... a guess? Kind of passive radiator , having extra frequencies, some cases might be ok , but most of them probably will sound annoying . Some materials with a high density will have no vibration or very tiny at low frequency. Thumbs up , i like the design , i really appreciate the effort , not mentioning the cost of those speakers .
Ovidiu Alba those speakers looks crazy...heaven if I prefer a massive wooden rendering. I really like the design and engineering behind It, considering it is a B&W copy it would have cost a lot less than the originals. Unless if he had to pay for those f....ing CNCs... nice job tho but can we seriously say it is DIY.
why go for the nautalus look cant copy definitfely. looks ok can see why the webbing in side was used as all the stacked pieces would be sufficient for structure
Hey if I had a factory and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of computerized machinery, why not? But I don't think my hardwood flooring could take half a ton of speaker.
Thousands of dollars for no bass lol But you can easily extend it to a height of 2 meters if you want to listen to music :D and because they sound so crappy, a string orchestra is played...
very nice design and all, but i would much rather have had a breakdown by the builder of these speakers as to how he made them than this crappy classical music plating in my ears the whole way through.......
@@Bulldog_DK Nope. In almost every way, plywood and chipboard (they now used exclusively plywood rather than chipboard, whether stacked or formed like b&w does, is a better sounding material than aluminum. Especially when bituminous damped like a b&w. I have things I don't like about modern b&w, but I can promise you the Matrix cabinet (I have an early iteration) is the business. Mine is just a big box, no sexy curves, and the lack of box coloration is astounding. As a result, you can really place the speaker perfectly and get outstanding sound, or you can just kind of plop them anywhere and get merely good sound.
@@j3andme998 When B&W uses aluminum for the far more important midrange then it's fine? This guy did the exact opposite and in the right places. In addition, the goal is to deaden low resonant frequencies, and this kind of armored aluminum wall is a far superior solution.
Top of the line facility, ingenuity, determination, skill, and time= Amazing work. Congratulations on a well deserve pair of beautiful speakers. I bet you enjoy them.
When the world is reduced to nothing but rubble, sand and ash, alien lifeforms will find those speakers still standing where you put them and they will ask, "Why?" Because you could, you wanted to and you did. That is the answer. Well done.
Why? He's probably a fabricator not a sound engineer, and if you're going to go through all that trouble, you'd want to make sure the design is tested and true.
@@Canadian_Eh_I Except that he didn't stay true to the iconic and tested N 800 design by altering some of its most critical design elements. This is therefore strictly a gratuitous show of money. One of the best examples of this is the carbon fiber wrapped wooden midrange enclosure, which adds absolutely nil engineering benefit to the design, and in fact is a bit of a deceit, as the structure is indeed NOT made of carbon fiber (a suboptimal material for speaker enclosures anyway).
Never understod people, that spend 30k on speakers and put them in a non sound treated room. I mean, what do you expect? That they will sound better than 3k speakers in the same room. Get yourself a pro that treats your room, then you can think about better speakers.
flo richi the room is not really important nowadays if you build proper speakers and use well calibrated dsps. Google for kii three speakers for example. They dont care about the room even a bit, because the DSPs calculate the rooms phase shifts and correct them. Hard to describe, just read about this. The Speakers here are overkill, of course. They are crazy, but if i had so much spare alu i would also build something like that. Cool project, love it. But also crazy ;)
@@TOM_78 The microphone measures sums of all reflections, resonance of sound in room. The DSP already reads the non-minumum phase signals that already damaged by a lot of resonance and combfiltering. So what do you expect it to fix? Pro-treated room + DSP is the best way to go. The untreated room + DSP only gives you average results. I am using pro-treated room everyday with just a final touch by DSP, it sounds so awesome and clearer, tighter than a lot untreated room + DSP I have visited.
An extreme labour of love... absolutely extraterrestrial !! Use them in good health. Infinite congratulations... just thought the wood of the mid-range looked much better that the carbon fiber. Especially with the beautifully matched grain pattern. Literally no words to express my gut feeling about these !!!
So we're not going to get to hear how those speakers sound? I understand that hearing somene's speakers through your own speakers is kind of pointless but with headphones on and listening to the footage recorded off the speakers you can still get an idea of how they sound.
No, you can't. You hear the mic, the rooms coloring, and your equipment's coloring. Think listening to a sub vid on your phone. An exaggeration, but apropos, none the less.
You are nuts and that is why we love this kind of project. What fun. I have B&W 801s and they are great speakers and have a great cabinet shape. How many bolts?
Unbelievable Craftsmanship at its finest ! How do they sound is the Big question ? They look Beautiful and look to be bulletproof ! It would be nice to know how they sound. There is no doubt you are talented. Great Job !
Wow and amazing feat.some what VERY expensive. I wonder what ancillary equipment it is hooked up to? NO need for all the internal bracing, I personally prefer the Morel TI woofers . But its still a job so very well done:)
Not as dense as my lead lined speakers. Beautiful looking. Higher quality than 99% of speakers out there in the market place. These would definitely sell.
Total senseless Bullshit! Buy a pair of professional Studio Speakers an you have a better Result! Why? Because there is a lot of Development over many years to become better and better.
Amazing engineering and production process , lots of time , high end parts and hard work, does it sound worth with your effort ? give us sound demo like kenrick sound does
I think you mean the most wasteful speaker in the world. A waste of aluminium. Should have just bought the real thing instead of this inferior bastardised version.
Thats why plenty of hifi manufacturers and sound engineers recommend metal as the material of choice for speaker enclosures. Wait, what? Yeah, no. It's a bad idea. Metal is worse than cheap plastic for building speaker enclosures 😂😂 Metals are excellent conductors. Of Electricity. Of Heat. Of SOUND. Even glass provides better sound damping compared to metals. And metals will ring like a bell. Oh, bells are actually made of metal aren't they 😂😂 Agreed, The machined speakers look absolutely gorgeous. A work of art, if a real person created it. But this particular project is just an uninformed, high budget replica of actual well-designed speakers. But at the end of the day it's a replica, and not a very good one. If someone's looking to make a high end one off project like this, I suggest you CNC some dense but well damped wood like wenge or sapele or some other non-endangered species of wood along with contrasting maple or oak.
This is what happens, when you want to copy the original "Nautilus" but can't find one to 3D scan. Then, you put a result of such an insane effort next to a huge glass wall and let it ring. What a waste of energy and resources! Hopefully child labor didn't have to be involved to pull this off for less.
Wow, as a CNC machinist I am impressed. Nice CAM work on those parts. That was probably 5-10 thousand dollars in aluminum all together eh? It would almost hurt my heart to throw 75% of the mass away as chips hahahha. Do you have access to casting facilities? Cast iron with lots of silica and inclusions would make for a good speaker cabinet too. Much greater young's modulus than aluminum, resulting in less flexure, and a high vibrational damping coefficient.
@@Canadian_Eh_I Well, aluminum has a much higher tensile strength to weight ratio, however, tensile strength is not what matters here...its the elastic modulus, 'rigidity'. Cast iron has around the same weight to elastic modulus ratio as aluminum. This would make an equivalent cast iron cabinet weigh the same. However it has a number of advantages, particularly the high damping coefficient and the ability to cast into complex shapes using sand casting or investment casting. This can allow for a highly engineered structure without the need to remove so much material from the billet. The corrosion resistance of CI also isn't too bad and can last nearly forever with a good enamel paint job. Compared to wood, a well engineered cast iron cabinet will resonate less and create less coloration of the sound. The sheer weight that can be readily attained also serves to prevent an equal but opposite motion of the cabinet relative to large woofers during their excursion, which will assist the drivers in controlling their diaphragms.
