How To Build Speaker Enclosures

With this book, anyone can become a speaker builder. You don't need an elaborate workshop, expensive analytical equipment, or sophisticted software. Learn the concepts you need or chhose any of the eleven tested and proven speaker designs included in the book. Contains all the information the speaker builder needs to design and build a first-rate system, one that surpasses higher-cost commercial products.

Here's a book on building your own speakers that's packed with great new ideas. Building a pair of underfloor 15-inch subwoofers for your home, integrating quality ported enclosures into your walls or ceiling - even developing your own spherical-shaped hi-fi speakers. There's also coverage of software to design speaker enclosures, to determine the specs of second-hand or unknown drivers, and to measure the performance of your new speakers. Here are ideas that you can take and apply for yourself, without needing to buy expensive brand-name drivers or have high-level woodworking skills. Practical and down to earth, the 68 large-format pages are packed with content - nearly 150 full colour photos showing step-by-step construction, and the projects start from just a few dollars. This second edition adds extended coverage on testing speakers, how to obtain quality loudspeaker drivers at low cost, how to cheaply adjust tweeter levels, and building a subwoofer from pre-built enclosures. Read this book and start building quality speakers today!

This volume seeks to lay the groundwork for readers who want to understand the general functions of loudspeaker enclosure systems and eventually experiment with their own designs. Written for design engineers and technicians, students, and intermediate-to-advanced acoustics enthusiasts, it presents a general theory of loudspeaker enclosure systems. Featuring illustrated and numerical examples, the book examines diverse developments in enclosure design, and studies the various types of enclosures as well as varying parameter values and performance optimisation. Topics examined include: the synthesis of vented systems; infinite-baffle and closed-box systems; electro-acoustical relations; and reflex response relationships.