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You have just unlocked a stream of memories. Back in the mid 1970's I made a matched pair of stereo speakers bought from Wilmslow Audio. I fetched them myself. They were KEF kit 3s, three drive units. With help from a mate we built them in my Dads garage, and of course they were the best speakers in the world, and I have still got them!!

So spot on! I'm still chasing to relive the sound that came from the Altec Lansing 12" woofers I built cabinets for that had horn tweeters with exposed crossover components that sat on top of the enclosures. Those speakers rocked all the houses I inhabited during my college years. I eventually sold them to a rock band, since they were too large to fit in my car when I left school. Now I'm thinking it was the memories of cranking tunes outside on big grass lawns with a keg of beer, a bushel of oysters, throwing the Frisbee with friends and smiling at the coeds in cut off shorts walking by that makes me think that no other speakers have sounded as good as those Altecs. In reality, I'm not chasing an improved sound, I'm chasing the youth of my past.

What you say is so true! I've never owned "store bought enclosures", but boy have I built quite a few different cabinets. I started out with single 12" "full range" speakers in a very pleasing sized box but way too small to get the bass performance I wanted. This was when I was around 16. Then I read about bass reflex cabinets and cut some ports into the too small boxes. The bass was better, but everything else sucked. A new neighbor moved in next door and one day I heard the most magnificent loud and clean sound coming from his house. I got to know him and it turned out he used a wall in his living room as an infinite baffle. There was a large open stairway on the back side of that wall. Each channel had 2 EV SP15 speakers and an Altec 500 Hz horn. I'd never heard anything like it before. The sound levels he could achieve were unbelievable and I'm surprised nobody called the cops...but he was a cop, so maybe that's why. Sometime later, he decided to replace the SP15s with JBL LE15s and sold me 2 of the EV speakers for next to nothing. This was in 1967. I used a guide from Electrovoice to "design" properly sized bass reflex cabinets. I was just out of high school and living with my parents at the time. My dad and I cut up the wood and built my cabinets, which were huge. I had them in the basement and when nobody was home, I cranked them up. These were the best speakers I'd ever heard, with the exception of the neighbor's infinite baffle driven with all McIntosh gear. I brought my girlfriend (now wife) over to hear them and she proclaimed them to be the best speakers she'd ever heard. After we got married, I build a listening room in the basement of our new house. It featured an infinite baffle with 1 SP15 and 1 Altec horn on each side. Now these were the best speakers in the world. I had also built my preamp, power amp and electronic crossovers from scratch and they were the best too. When we moved to our next house, there wasn't any wall that could be used as an infinite baffle. Someone at work showed me a catalog from a company in Seattle that offered various speaker kits as well as plans. Speakerlab was their name and they offered a set of very detailed plans to build a clone of the Klipschorn as well as a kit. This was a woodworking nightmare from hell with all the compound angled cuts and many pieces to make the folded horn. A pair required 5 sheets of 1/2" plywood and 2 sheets of 3/4" walnut veneered plywood. I bought the plans and built a pair. They were beautiful and looked just like the real thing. I used my EV SP15 in the bass bin and the Altec horn along with a new EV tweeter. These now were the best speakers in the world and even my old neighbor with the infinite baffle said so when he heard them. The only problem was that when friends heard them, they wanted a pair too. I think in total I built 5 pairs for other people. This was in 1978 and I still have them today. They're now bi-amped with home built electronic crossovers and lateral MOSFET power amps. My most recent upgrade was the addition of DSP equalization. I'm old now and I know there are better speakers than mine, but the built in low pass filters in my ears probably couldn't tell the difference.

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Been doing this for years. DIY speakers have changed my world. Buidling speakers especially suited for the environment they will be listened to makes a world of difference.

I must say that it’s refreshing to find and old fart, like me, who started this journey in the 70’s. You are much smarter of course. My first speakers where Crazy Eddy’s Acoustic Phase, which were garbage. Then I made my own which were better. After that I have got speakers like: EV, Altec Lansing, Infinity Slopes, Infinity Kappa 9, Roger Studio one and now B&W. Nothing like those I made. Thanks for the memories Sir.

I built kit speakers when I was high school. They were from a Seattle company called Speaker Lab. I liked the company because the built their own speaker components included spinning the voice coils and magnetizing the drivers. I built the cabinets in the wood shop at school. They were nothing fancy; just 2-way speakers with 8" woofer, dome tweeter and sealed cabinet of the appropriate volume. I ran them from a vacuum-tube integrated amp with about about 25W/channel, but the setup actually performed better than what most kids my age had. I actually don't remember much else about the system. I don't even remember what I had for a turntable, but remember playing nothing but vinyl. :)

That was the most fun I've had watching a RU-vid video in a long time! Thanks for sharing!

Excellent video. Thank you sir. Ahh, the memories… my Dad had a workshop with all the tools (radial arm saw, drills, fasteners, etc.). I managed to order a book on how to build speakers (this was the 70’s - pre- internet obviously). I perused the information and came up with a design. I reused some Radio Shack mids from a friends old speakers, bought a Phillips Dome tweeter and an 8” woofer from somewhere. I don’t recall where i got the crossover from. Anyway, I assembled the cabinet, gave it a beautiful finish and framed and covered the speaker covers with some material I found in my mother’s sewing room. They looked fantastic! I installed a 1” strip of wood on the front underside of the speakers so they would sit tilted slightly back. Excitedly I hooked up my 20 Watt Realistic (a Toshiba that sounded like 50 Watts) amp, put a record on my Dual 510 and… They did not sound as I had hoped/ dreamed. The bass was completely anemic. Mids and Highs were ok. The point of my long ramble is that no matter how disappointing the results it was a very satisfying venture. I then turned my ambitious thoughts to building a pair of 12” Karlson (open baffle) Enclosures. I even managed to get the plans. (I still have them somewhere although they can be found via a brief google search.) Alas, I never got around to building them. My son has excellent woodworking skills so perhaps one day soon we could build a set together. And just maybe he too will get to experience the joy of building your own speakers no matter the outcome.

My first speakers had twin eight inch co-axial drivers. They weren't good. Then I built a pair of speakers using Isophonic drivers from a junked Telefunken console stereo. They sounded amazing. A while later, I acquired a pair of Altec-Lansing 515's and built a pair of A 7 bass horns. I added a subwoofer, which I built using two JBL fifteen inch drivers. I own the best speaker system in the world, or so I think.

My Dad build his own speakers when he was in technical training school (in electronics) for his first job out of high school. I have them now and they still sound good. My Wharfedale Diamonds are arguably better, but these old boys still work well. They've got Richard Allan 12-inch woofers and 8-inch mid range, with Philips tweeters. The crossovers and cabinets Dad built himself. My wife hates the things but I love 'em

My dad, when he was a teenager still living at home (around the mid 1950's), and after obtaining permission from his parents (my grandparents ), proceeded to saw two big square holes in the wooden floor and placed two DIY speaker boxes on top; he used the entire under-floor crawl space as an infinite baffle. Superb bass performance, so he tells me. Fortunately my grandparents approved of that kind of initiative; my dad did lots of DIY audio builds when he was young. I built my own design headphone amp before they became available commercially; I still think it is the best headphone amp 😬👍

So many comments to dig through…assuming people have already mention using it and was great to see it in the description. But I also got my start using “The Loudspeaker Design Cookbook” by Vance Dickason …. No idea what version they are on now… I used it to design and build subwoofer boxes for cars…. Sealed, ported, band pass ….. all that jazz. MDF was hard to come by those days.. early 90s… Thanks for the great walk down memory lane

I tell you what,,, if this guy was hiring,,, I would joyously work daily with him. A wealth of Knowledge!

I've built myself quad speaker 3 way with diy cross overs with good phase impedance and spl. To my ears they are the best in the world 😅 It was certainly a steep learning curve without books, kits etc. just public info on the internet. I've taught myself building and cnc-ing enclosures, xsim, rew and how to use umik1 and measure impedance with a usb sound 'card'. Used high quality cross over parts. Also made sure the room curve measures well at listening position. Even applied some room treatment. I've probably sunk 2k euros into it but I really enjoy worlds best music on my worlds best audio system tweaked to my tastes!

I just love this. Starting in the early 70:s with no money and big dreams. Many speakers have past and now i'm planing to build my last speakers, a pair of JBL L250 copys.

I just discovered your channel, and I love it. What I cherish the most is your down-to-earth, no-bullshit attitude. Thank you, and kudos for that!

Very refreshing. Thanks. Built the transmission line PRO-9 monitors from Wilmslow Audio about half a century ago! Gave a very good result. Everyone was very impressed because until then no one had a concept of what Hi-fi is all about. Been listening to transistor radios! PRO-9's eventually were discarded due to moving around.

Your videos are pure joy. Can´t wait for the next one. On this particular topic, there is no way I would ever venture into building a pair of speakers (kit or no kit), but if I did, it would surely be due to your compelling arguments...

I am not inclined to build my own speakers; however I suffered through the Master's presentation as I waited for the ladies to show up. And, in the end, they did. Loved it.

Mine are just fine. Finally reached the "no longer need to find better speakers" stage in my life. :) No more stress... other than neighbors getting closer.

I built my own car stereo setup with my choice of drivers and tweeters Also made up my own crossovers using charts and books I found on the subject Not bad results but I always learned something new which I love to do still. Still amazing alpine demo TA with dozen 6x9s in the rear prior to subs coming to the forefront of car audio I still believe it would rock today 😁🎵🎵

When I was younger I had to have a pair of Pioneer HPM-100 to have a great bass. Loads of tinkering with the electronics of the (then) 25 year veterans to try and get the best sound out of it -- and yes, that did involve a new cross-over design! A few tears were shed when I sold them, these beasts were simply too big for my room, but good memories all 'round.

Always appreciate your videos! I have taken a slightly different approach with my listening. When we moved to this house, it came with a sound system that was well beyond anything I would've put together (Krell amp, Krell pre-amp, Sonus Faber Concerto speakers and a REL sub). The Krell needed repair (dried out capacitors) and the room needed to be re-arranged for better placement. Prior to this, I didn't have any systems of any note, although my brother had owned a few that I'd enjoyed listening to from time to time. The sub died shortly after moving in so I replaced it with a modern REL equivalent, not for music but for surround entertainment. I listen in 2 channel for music and 5.1 for movies. I am absolutely ecstatic with the 2 channel performance. Having tested it out as thoroughly as I can, there is nothing lacking to my ear. As such, the ONLY thing I do when I listen to it now is simply enjoy it. I primarily listen to prog rack, some very specific classical concertos and Julian Lage (a jazz guitarist). Listening to the delicate work of a 3 piece jazz trio really makes the hairs on my arm stand up, especially with quality recordings. A friend of mine, on the other hand, is always talking about upgrading his setup (2 channel, vinyl with a tube amp), to the point where I'm not really sure how much he's allowing himself to enjoy the music he owns. TLDR: if you're happy with the music you're hearing and can't pick out any artifacts, then stop chasing upgrades and enjoy the hell out of it.

My first speakers were a pair of Acoustic Research ones, bought in 1975 using a Thorens turntable and a Cambridge P50 amplifier, after that a pair of Spendor SP1's with a Quad 33 and 303, then I had a week working at Linn's factory outside Glasgow where I had a demo of their then new Kan's and as soon as I got home I bought a pair of those, only I could never drive them hard enough living in a London flat to make them sound as good as in the demo room. I very quickly traded them in for a pair of Harbeth LS3/5A's which suited me perfectly until I fell for a pair of Quad 7710's which, 35 years later, are still standing on the old Kan stands in my sitting room ... I might not have built them myself, but to me they're definitely the best speakers in the world.

Thanks for a great presentation! I'm proud to have owned a number of the best speakers in the world!

I indeed have also built 'the best speakers in the world' (with help from my Dad). Made with 5" Vifa Woofers and Philips Ribbon Tweeters with some random cross-over from a local electronics chain in Australia (Jaycar). Designed using a BASIC computer program from a book (Designing, Building and Testing Your Own Speaker System by David B. Weems). 25 years and still going strong!

I agree it took me over a year to learn how to build a decent speaker but I mostly learnt for fun so it's possible to do it faster. Now I can't imagine buying speakers because they got bad value compared to anything I want to build. Its complete freedom, I can do small speakers with deeper bass than anything on market sacrificing sensitivity or I can do monitors that will play reference levels of volume or even 106db without much of a compression if I want to. Cost of components is not to high. I even order enclosures from carpetner because its cheaper and better than buying flat packs which supeised me.

The problem with kits is that you don't know if that particular speaker is going to give you the type of sound that you're looking for. Just because one person thinks the design and overall sound are great doesn't mean you'll feel the same way. If you're going the pure DIY route you better have the correct woodworking equipment and be skilled at making cabinets (otherwise it's a lost cause) plus you need the equipment to measure the frequency response of each individual driver so you can design a crossover that works with those drivers.

My speakers cost me $80,000 just to listen to Vinyl. Yes I'm insane😅

Oh yes, I built two pair of speakers back in the 70s. For the second pair we didn't have any foam to put inside, so we dismantled some pillows and problem solved. Fond memories indeed.

I built a pair of >6 ft. Voigt pipe speakers this year. Wonderful project. Love ‘em.

I built my first set back in the 70s. ElectroVoice SP12B. To me they were the best, especially when listening to Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Stones, ....etc. etc.

I always find it amazing how every reviewer always touts the best speaker in the world, at least once a week ... and they're always different. But, yes, I've been modifying and servicing speakers for a lot of years now and the one thing that is *always* true is that every speaker can be improved with a little patience and skill. There's just nothing like seeing a labour of love come to life right in front of you.

I build my own speaker for my band when I was 16 years old. Always fiddled with electronics in the late 90s. This brings back good old memories.

Hey i came back to your video to say your right. I own a the PMC Twenty5 26i, they cost 11'000&. So i thougt you just havent heard this quality thats why you say you can build better ones. But now i started to build my own speakers and i have to admit, he is 100% right! Ive never heard something sounding sooooo gooood!! I will sell my PMC's! I thank you so much! ❤☺️

Hello David, best channel ever.. I’ve upgraded and redesigned crossovers, and have upgraded drivers, on stereo speakers in the past, but I’ve never built any from scratch. (I stink at woodworking). I have a few books on the subject that just sit on a bookshelf, but the one you mentioned sounded intriguing, and a seemingly good buy at $50, but no current plans for new speakers, since I currently have 2 sets of floor standers already. I had to chuckle when you mentioned the 4x12”’s. Back when I played guitar, more years ago now than I care to think about, I picked up a Laney LC-50, which was a 50 watt 1x12” combo with 2 6L6 output tubes. The problem was that it had this really annoyingly crisp and bright HH speaker in it, so I got my hands on one of the 12” Celestion speakers that was same as the ones in the old Marshall 4 x 12 cabinets, and I put that speaker in the combo instead in place of the HH speaker, and then, problem solved. 😉

Fantastic video. I have built a pair, a trial pair of speakers from a kit. Very challenging since I have not soldered in 25 + years and I was not accustomed to reading electronic schematics. They speakers sound ok. I purchased the recommended book, I am sure I will build more, maybe without a kit.

Love the tongue in cheek presentation in this video. I have gone this road before and suggest a 4th path. Pretend like you are going to build your own speakers from the ground up and, at the end of the day, DON’T DO IT! There is a reason for this madness and it is simply that trying to design your own speakers teaches you about the various aspects of speaker design. This comes in handy whether you buy an off the shelf speaker or a kit. For example, I am a fan of open baffle (OB) speakers. Cabinet design is relatively simple because you are mounting your drivers on a single panel and I love the OB sound. However, OB speakers need to be around 3’ from the front wall. It is also hard to get deep bass out of these designs unless you are using large drivers mounted on a large panel. There are ways to reduce the size of the speaker, and that basically comes down to a hybrid design where the tweeter and mid-woofer are in an open baffle and the woofer is not. There are generally 3 choices (sealed, ported or passive radiator). My preference would be passive radiator as (to me) it offers the best compromise of sound quality , reasonable size and bass extension. I would also tend to prefer bi-amped 3-way speakers where only the woofer is powered because you generally need a fair amount of power to get the most from woofers, Class D amps work well in the bass region and are cheap, and finally, powering the woofers allows you to use much lowered powered amps for the tweeter and mid-woofer. All of this came from researching speaker design. Part of building the best speakers in the world is knowing what you want and the considerations in the best design to accomplish it. This knowledge allows you to make better choices whether you buy or build your speaker and informs you of what you should be looking for because you know the compromises in a particular type of design.

My dad built two x 8" woofers (kef) not sure what make the 2" tweeters where,but these where the best heavy bass crisp tops quite big deep boxes ,20 years later i removed the 2",treeter and replaced the whole with a thick cardboard tube As port used them as bass ,a mate of mine still has them goung strong ❤🇬🇧🍀🇮🇪

There are great DIY speakers out there. For (retail). under a grand, you'll get drivers and crossover parts better than anything at that price on the audio market. For the price of some 3- way midline cerwin-vega, I ended up with drivers from scan-speak and peerless. 5% tolerance crossover parts. They weren't t the greatest in the world, but the performance for the money was major league. Transparent,, detailed and impactful. I'd never have audiophile approved validation in any reviews, so - I'd have to be satisfied on their own merits, and no one else's opinion of them. There is a great satisfaction in DIY.

This is where I am now, on a father-of-two-kids schedule, but I have the book and I'm excited.

Brave man... admitting to that phase mistake. We've all done daft things but most of us keep quiet about them!

I built and electric and bass guitar. Definitely the best guitars in the world!!

I've designed and built a few speakers - a 3-way 8-inch transmission line system which sounds quite good except the titanium tweeter I used sounds very open but can also be "tizzy" on some material- maybe I'll change to a soft dome at some point; I use these at my office. The bass is very good, very "un-boxy" and with great transients. I built a couple of 2-ways, with SEAS or ScanSpeak drivers, some are biamped using MiniDSP- all of these sound pretty good. I am currently building a pair of 3-way active Bluetooth towers using some low cost drivers. So far these sound awful - boomy bass- but some iterative design will likely fix that. There are going to go to a young-ish person who wants to listen to loud music.

That's a wonderful story. Sometimes we forget to check the basic stuff such as a driver being out of phase. Which makes me wonder there must be quite many audiophiles out there with speakers connected with wrong polarity.

I own the Loudspeaker Design Cookbook, and it is amazing.

I’ve owned my fair share of “audiophile approved” speakers over a period of 40 years, then stumbled into the rabbit hole of DIY building - and damn, but you’re right: every single pair of the hundreds* of those was the best in the world - until the next. *not an infinite number, but more than I can remember.😂

I understood that the perfect hifi set up does not exist. I can understand that building your own speakers will give a lot of satisfaction even when they are not perfect. The problem with a so called audiophile is that it is impossible to satisfy him/her as they will think to hear something which is not perfect. To solve that problem other equipment and cables will have to be bought, to find out after some time that also that one is not sounding perfect. I'm listening myself to equipment for which I had to save money for a couple of years, which I choose with care and of which I also know that the positioning is not perfect as the space and furnature in my living room will allow that. Still I enjoy the music I play and that is because I learned that life will never be perfect, but I'm happy with what I have. Even building your own speakers can become therefore a very costly hobby and as long as you will remain hearing the imperfectness instead of the music, you will never be satisfied.

I built my forst pair of speakers when i was 13 years old. I got hired to clean out a warehouse for the local Datsun/Nissan dealership. They said i could keep anything I found. There were 40 pairs of brand new Nissan factory car speakers. About 2/3 were 6" and a thirrd were 4". All were just single cone, full range drivers. I bought four sheets of plywood and made two huge boxes. Took an entire day to cut out 80 holes! I learned about ohms and even bought two cheap crossovers to separate the 6" from the 4". Tool a while day to solder so much wire! And in the end, the result was totally worth it! They sounded absolutely terrible. Probably the worst speakers ever made. But they were big and allowed me to start a DJ business that eventually paid for college. And they made me save my money as fast as possible to buy better gear! I sold those speakers to a middle aged stoner named Biff after about a year and he loved them. LOL

I just bought a pair of Spendor BC1 's. Far cheaper than you could make ( even if you could get the parts!!) 50 years ago I heard them in a showroom in London up against many speakers and it far outperformed all of them They are perfect for me.

I had once a big diy 3-way loudspeaker. I built it my self and it sounded great. It had a 10" woofer. Now I have a 2-way loudspeaker with a 4" woofer, not diy but it sound great too.

I've recently discovered your channel and I'm really enjoying your videos. Please, keep it up!

Best speakers ever made - ‘ER AUDIO Electrostat’s’ from Australia. Buy them as a DIY or complete, build crossovers, even tension and glue the Mylar and coat it in conductive solution. Rob from ER Audio has even resolved original issues that ESL’s were know for, resulting in a modern ESL that is free from beaming, drum resonance and low bass out put.

I’m quite happy with my 35yo Polk 10s, thank you very much. They sound great.

Two Altec 211 bass cabinets (normally seven feet tall, from a movie theater) on their sides, with two Altec 515Bs in each, two JBL 375 drivers on hartzfeld lenses, four Heil Tweeters, two on each side, tri-amped. After hearing this, people either a.) wanted the same thing or b.) sold their stereo system and bought an AM transistor radio.

I've been building speakers for years, decades. I used to build from scratch, but I haven't kept my knowledge up enough to do that, and relearning is not something I want to partake in. So, I've been building from kits. There are so many high end kits available, that for me, it doesn't pay to build from scratch anymore. Modern DIY kit designers have come a long way, and the end results of kits, are speakers that easily outperform commercially available speakers that cost substantially more. My current kit, the late Jeff Bagby's, Auricle monitors (RAAL tweeters, SB Acoustics mid), sitting on a pair of his woofer modules (not subwoofers) , with about $1800 USD invested, easily rival commercially available speakers for $10,000, without exaggeration. But even given that I'd have to spend over $10K on the commercial market to get something better than my speakers, I am still aware that I do not own the best speakers in the world. My rich cousin owns a pair of Von Schweikert Ultra 55 speakers, at $100,000.00, that easily stomp my speakers, and every $10K speaker I've ever heard.

Auratone cubes i once copied as additional monitors, they worked fine and did the job, saving a lot of money. Still a fan of widerange speakers and/ or 2 way speakers.

I bought a pair computer speak at cost less than 90 (including tax), and audio quality is excellent, unbelievable.

A far-cry from "Perfection" - Altec 891v series are cheap, & some of the most musical, warm, open, fast, present & life-like speakers I've ever enjoyed hearing. They make *_Music_* - not just sound

Still use the LS3/5a Wilmslow Audio copies in the bedroom which I built forty years ago after my A-levels. Then it was the WA SPL1 monitors with Morel drive units yadda yadda which i used for twenty five years and which then became THE BEST SPEAKERS IN THE WORLD! But now, I've *ahem* acquired a pair of factory built Mirage speakers plus stands, from Canada. Holy shit. These things blow the socks off anything home-made. Problem is, I've now also acquired a pair of 15" Tannoy dual concentric drive units...which are up in the loft but which will of course, in time be used as the basis of my home-designed BEST SPEAKERS IN THE WORLD (Mk II).

I don't hate anybody, but I could come close with this guy.

But now we don't even need the book! Just ask the internet, download a simulation progrm. And if you use active crossovers, you don't need to mess around with tempermental crossovers. That way instead of trying to understand electronic components, you just spend an infinite amount of time measuring and tweaking! I currently have 1 "completed" speaker, paired with the previous prototype iteration...I haven't had a matching pair of speakers for awhile now. I might decide the "finished" one is actually just another prototype.... They may never be done, but when they are done, they will definitely be the best in the world!

Still have my Leak Sandwich 600s Good grief must be over or close to 50yrs old still sound good to me.

Never thought I'd see the day when Malcolm Jones' Tabors were mentioned on YT. I built mine from Wilmslow Audio kits in 1978. I used 3/4" flooring grade chipboard, 1/8" hardboard as a veneer, lined with bitumous felt panels & weigh 50lbs each. They were used for 10 years until I could afford better. I recently pulled them from storage & they still sound good. The only advice I'd give is please audition your kits before buying, in my case a friend had already built some Tabors, there's nothing more frustrating than disliking your creation, after spending so many hours on them.

I _do_ have the best speakers in the world: the CBSO at Symphony Hall.

You can build speakers that will be very good speakers if you made active filter, good measurements And this time it’s not just for you it’s available for everyone Just forget passive filters and don’t forget to make good measurements If you just put hp in a box like that it will be crap

7:55 I think I bought my Wharfedale Dovedale 3 kits from Wilmslow Audio in 1972. After several weeks of amateur woodworking and bodging I thought they sounded superb. I still have them. This has triggered a search for Wilmslow Audio in the first edition of Wireless World I ever bought - October 1971 (I had just started at University). I used to love the ads in there. There's a Quad ad (before the 405); SME 3009 (I have one now in my Transcriptors Hydraulic Reference); Garrard AP76 (it's all I could afford in those days, with Shure M75ED), and an ad for the wonderfully named Wayne Kerr, of bridge fame (Cables: Waynkerr Surbiton). And an ad for the Sinclair Project 60, an ad by Nagra seeking a Junior Service Engineer, but no Wilmslow Audio. I wonder where I saw their ads.

i have kef Q60. Still my best pair speakers

Meyer Sound- best I ever heard

Great!! Took me back to my twenties when I did build my Hi-Fi speakers (from a kit) , and also a bass speaker for my bass guitar (yes, I played in a band) - that box was huge and weighed a ton, but did the job, just fitted in the car.

Happy with my modest entry level Dali spektor 2

This video was a howl and so much fun. Not often you can stir people to try their hand at DIY speaker building, but designing them also? Ok. No, it isn’t far fetched, but this is assuming they don’t work 12s most if not all of the week which negates having much time for this endeavor. I admire your zeal sir. No one can fault that even if it has a satirical tone attached. Still fun nonetheless.

I think it was more financially practical to make your own speakers 30 or 40 years ago. I hoped to make speakers a few years ago and after a lot of research, realised it would cost twice as much as buying similarly spec'd new ones. I made a few amps and preamps, they cost around 400 each in components alone. And took 3 years to really get the circuitry right. I don't regret the time and they are the best amps I've ever heard!

Fischer & Fischer SLATE Loudspeakers ! 😇🤫

Love the background A.i. images. Very easy way to have neat backdrop.

yeh I remember playing in groups and building 4x12 cabs for my guitar, then I opened a hifi shop and listening and comparing educates the ear,. something very important if you have love of classical music or Pink Floyd I do remember selling the jim rodgers ls135/a, does anyone remember RAM speakers, they were hot . I sold KEF, Mission, B&W, Celestion, Wharfedale and some American brands too but the Brits made the best speakers. Much later I did build my own amplifier and I recommend it to all hifi enthusiasts, it's not too difficult.

It would be a Sound investment..

When I build a set of speakers, I start with an inexpensive, pre-assembled crossover and let that limit the range of drivers that might work well, which then determines the box size. So far, has yielded 2 very different sets of the best cheap speakers in the world.

Awesome video,I think you once mentioned this was in the pipeline, and your bang on the money ! DIY audio is a great journey and you WILL find " the best audio in the world" along the way. My carpentry skills aren't anywhere near the cricket ground and are best described as 'poor' so my Mordaunt Shorts needn't worry !......Cheers.

I made speakers as a teenager. I had a big technical book on speakers I didn't understand and no money. The drivers were whatever I could scrounge from broken radiograms. I truly thought they were amazing. I don't think they were than now, though they must have sounded nice compared to every other low-fi item my parents had in the house. Years later I have them mounted in my garage. And the original muddy drivers have been replaced with simple twin inline 6" speakers that are plenty good enough for the garage.

My best speakers in the world are a pair that I found in the loft. They were a bit dusty, but cleaned up nicely. 🙂

Excellent video! Tapped into my early wishes to build my own... Alas, I never did as I was always seemingly too busy, but I really wasn't. Wishing I had. Looking to build some open box speakers now.

Great video! Love seeing different speakers and the differences between them.

Sounds like Apple’s pricing policy: Infinity, add more RAM, and you still have infinity, add more storage? You still have infinity!

Well, well. I am the scathing voice here. NORMALLY. today - ?today I completely agree…and as such am now subbed To your channel. I could not afford the speakers i wanted. So i built them. I love them!! Thanks for encouraging others away from the claims and counter claims and settling it once and for all. ❤

The last live music I heard was composed, played on a guitar and sung by an up and coming East Anglian artist in my small office. I looked straight at her, of course, so I guess heard the same thing you have described live. We were talking about recording her in a room with an amazing natural echo, which will add controlled stereo ambience to an otherwise mono recording. I certainly won't be adding any mid-range 'bump'. (BTW as I'm not a professional and have vintage gear I will be using two to four preamped mics into an A3340 at 15 ips and a separate digital recorder, and mixing the result down to stereo using a 43-y-o A+H mixer. I guess you won't be impressed with that!) Sorry, I was trying to comment on your post about the near field hearing effect dead centre.

Informative and quite humerous. Brilliant! Thank you for this terrific video!

I built the Amiga MT and then bought a speedwoofer. It sounds very good.

Build your own speakers or, if you’re a young physics student named Brian May, build your own guitar. Then your new bassist John builds a small amp to complete your sound. See - easy!

100% yes. Some of the best speakers I've ever owned are in fact diy.

I built speakers when I was a child, to be honest, they were at best "ok" :), but I get the point :D!

I have the best speakers in the world because not only did I design and build them myself I tested them and fine tuned them to be close to perfect. The next pair I build will be just as good as the MBL 101 Xtreme.

Wonderful story, thank you!

The best speakers in the world are defined by the electrical capabilities of said speakers. Proper design will start with the desired represented range of the speakers. Then drivers will be selected based on electrical properties and the capability of that driver to accurately represent the desired range. Based on drivers selected a proper passive electrical crossover must be designed. This is where you use many attenuation circuits to ensure that the drivers cover only the ranges that are best suited for and the overlap between drivers is a little as possible to prevent lobbing. Next you design the box. This can be done simply by following the Fs of the driver. Tune the box to the Fs by either, port, radiator or passive dimensions and you are done. It helps to remember that the wider the range you demand a driver to cover, the more distortion you will be adding due to resonance of the cone. This is why my preference is for a three way design with large active woofer to supplement the sub 80Hz base effects.

I made a pair of spiral horns and they are very good but struggle in the low end. I then made a pair of large well braced slot ported reflex enclosures with early 60’s 15 ohm concentric 8” full range drivers and they sound sublime.

Awesome humor to!

I built speakers twice. The second was heafty transmission lines built from kits. Thay sounded terrible! The first used a dualcone single driver. I just read up what the cabinet volume should be and then knocked them up from plywood. Everyone I knew for the next few years told me thay were amazing and they were.

I don't believe such a beast exists, or ever will :).

With a fondness that can only be born of nostalgia, your video reminded me of my years during the 1980s aspiring to construct the ultimate "high-end" speaker system. My Bible was Edward T. Dell, Jr's Speaker Builder magazine. With my favorite issues of this invaluable resource dog eared and highlighted to near oblivion, I time and again struggled through the arcane stages of cabinet and crossover design, parts purchasing, woodworking and finishing. At the zenith of my hobbiest years I once mounted an 8" polypropylene woofer into a rosewood transmission line cabinet supporting a curvilinear electrostatic element with a passive 6 dB/octave crossover. Considering my total cost was little more than $200, its successful comparisons to an early 1980s Magneplanar MG-1 owned by a close friend convinced me that I'd indeed built the best speakers in the world.