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From: steve@princeton.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Speaker Building
Message-ID: <104@princeton.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Oct-83 17:16:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  6 17:16:10 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Oct-83 03:32:31 EDT
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The Audio Amateur is a good source of information.  In addition,
the sister publication, Speaker Builder, has some good articles.
If you are really hard core, you can did up old copies of the 
Audio Engineering Society Journal at your favorite technical library.

TAA and SB often present projects, but don't really advocate kits.
They often evaluate a kit, but the magazine is not geared toward kit
building.  They do carry advertisements, so feel free to go ahead and
buy a kit.

My personal feeling is that you get a better price/performance ratio
if you do the whole thing yourself.  This takes a little bit of carpentry
skill but is worth the time spent.  In particular, you can make the
cabinets as non-resonant as you care to.  You are also free to experiment
with different kinds of drivers and can get the sound that you want.
Crossover design also falls into this category.

I'm confused by the stipulation for more than 3 drivers per speaker.
What's wrong with a good two-way box.  Power handling is no longer a
problem, so why parallel drivers?

--Steve