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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...

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...

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!

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

Those are a nice looking speakers! Thanks for sharing John

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!

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.

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

Nice job, John. Years of enjoyment will follow.

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!!!!!!!!

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 !

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Well done John. thank you for your great videos

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

Cool project!

Awesome Job John they Sound Great!!

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

What a great video! Thank you for posting.

10:15: You waltz divinely.

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

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.

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 :)

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.

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!

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

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

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!

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

John those look fantastic. Impressive

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

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.

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

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).

Those look awesome. Great work

This put a smile on my face :)

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

cool. would revitalizing a older passive crossover be as simple as replacing capacitors and doing a cleanup? or do would the coils have to be replaced also? I was just thinking about this yesterday and then I ran into this video and see what it takes to build a crossover now

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

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

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!

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 👀👍

Beautiful work!

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

Nice job, meticulously clean and tidy.

Looks and sounds great!

great video! here is a question. i ordered a high pass filter for some speakers i am making, and i did not buy a low pass filter. i was not going to use one, but now i think i should. i looked on line where i got the high pass, and they are out of stock on the matching low pass. the components on the boards are identical. could i hook up the high pass filter to the woofer with the polarity tabs reversed and get a low pass filter, or am i dreaming?

Is there any more info the the build article? :D Thanks for talking through it, fun to see some of the "real world" applications of the wood working hobby, and what else you can get into.

Excellent video John

Are you making any covers of leaving the speakers to be admired?

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!

Wow the sound so clean n clearly hear..

so clean 😍

Great looking speakers. Good work.

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

Pretty impressive Jon.

Hi John. Thanks for the video. Many years ago I built a set of speakers. Two tweeters, two mid range and two bass speakers in each speaker. I know very little about electronics and got someone else to build crossovers for the speakers for me. Unfortunately the crossovers resulted in the mid range speakers dominating. Would you be able to inform me what components I should use to build new crossovers where the tweeters and more so the bass speakers would dominate? Thanks.

Hey john any plans to experiment with one of the coils sitting perpendicular from the others. From my reading coils on the same plane like that in close proximity may exhibit mutual inductance.

*"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."_

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

You have a schematic or wiring diagram for the x-over?

you are the man John.

Great job!

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.

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

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

Congrats, good video!!! question: What dimension of the cables that connect crossover to woofer and tweeter?

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

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

Thanks John!

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.

Nice and clean

Sounds real good.

Sounds very nice

Great vid. Thanks for sharing. I was wondering if an aluminum backplate would work.

Excellent videos bro

Hi John, nice work.

Cool project. Well narrated

Nice work john!!

EXTREMELY helpful. Thanks!

Very Good Job and it looks great

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.!!

This guy has the best videos

Beautiful!

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