Question by confusedguy: Help with home theater speaker box design.?
Ok, I’m looking to build an awesome home theater system using car audio speakers. I have 2 Alpine type R subwoofers and 4 – 6.5 round speakers with amps and everything. What I don’t have for all that is beautiful speaker boxes which i plan to make using walnut wood. All of the construction I can do. What I’m finding difficult is finding the dimensions, Qts, Dp, Xmax and all that to get the optimally designed box. What size port to use ect…… I would like to build four boxes for the 6.5 rounds and for now one subwoofer box. If anyone with this knowledge could please help me I would appreciate it greatly. If at all possible I would even like to contact you so we could discuss this further. Thanks!
Best answer:
Answer by Paul F
Take a look at this software:
http://www.ajdesigner.com/speaker/index.php
Also you can get others, do a search for “speaker box design”
I wouldn’t like to discourage you, but in the long run it would cost you more to do it yourself, than if you buy a good but inexpensive system.
If you find satisfaction on doing it yourself, then go for it!
Speakers designed for cars aren’t the most suitable for the home, but they are OK. In addition to the box design, you would have to have the right cross-overs, but you may already have them.
A 5.1 receiver may have outputs that may not be suitable to drive your car speakers, but perhaps they would be OK, just know that this may be the case. Different speakers have different sensitivity, so some require more power than others to produce the same acoustical output. On a 5.1 system all of these are matched.
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