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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...

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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 job, John. Years of enjoyment will follow.

Those are a nice looking speakers! Thanks for sharing John

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

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.

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

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!

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!

10:15: You waltz divinely.

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

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

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

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

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

Wow the sound so clean n clearly hear..

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!

Thanks John!

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

Well done John. thank you for your great videos

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!

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

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

Awesome Job John they Sound Great!!

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

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

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

What a great video! Thank you for posting.

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

Nice job, meticulously clean and tidy.

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

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.

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 !

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).

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

Looks and sounds great!

Great idea for polyfill!

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

Beautiful work!

Those look awesome. Great work

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

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

This put a smile on my face :)

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

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

Sounds real good.

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

EXTREMELY helpful. Thanks!

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

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!

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!

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.

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.

Sounds great on my iPad!

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

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

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

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.

Great looking speakers. Good work.

Pretty impressive Jon.

you are the man John.

Excellent video John

Nice and clean

Great job!

Sounds very nice

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

John those look fantastic. Impressive

Cool project!

Very nice job!

Thanks for sharing !

Cool project. Well narrated

Very nice and educational video.

Very Good Job and it looks great

Bravo

Beautiful!

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!

so clean 😍

Very nice video! Thank you.

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 👀👍

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).

very nice build

Hi John, nice work.

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

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

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

Nice work john!!

Excellent videos bro

Very nice work

Grandioso amigo gracias por compartir!

Hi John, that inspired!

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