Speaker Hobby

Thank you for visiting my website.  I originally set up this site to give back to others and help them build their own speakers because so many people have helped me over the years.  I thought it was time to give back more of my time.  I have many resources  to help you with your box calculations, crossovers, and general speaker information throughout my website.  Read more about "why" I got into my speaker hobby interest in the first place near the bottom of this page.

I'm now proud to announce that I am a distributor for the fine Audience A3 drivers and some of their other products.

*NEW PRODUCT ALERT*  Audience has released its new A3 revolutionary full range 3" driver with XBL2 technology for state of the art sound out of a small driver.  Applications include a line array design up to 24 drivers with no crossover necessary.  They can be used for a very high quality midrange and other uses as well.  They have a flat response throughout the audio spectrum from 40hz to 22Khz. 22Khz to -20 at 20Hz with very high power handling and dynamic range. This is such an amazingly well designed loudspeaker driver that there are 3 patents pending on its design!

Other fine Audience drivers should be available around August 1st.  They will be the 5", 6", & 8" woofers with the XBL2 technology.

 I have photos of my newly built pair of A3 Audience 4 driver loudspeakers.  After several hours of burn in time with pink noise, I listened to some Santana and Fleetwood Mac. The details are so fine!  I have them wired with the fine Auric interconnect wire.  These are simply awesome!  Click on the A3 photo or the Audience A3 drivers link to the left for more information and see the four driver pair that I've completed!

I have good used Bang and Olufsen Redline 60 drivers and tweeters for sale for $65.00 ea. plus shipping. Click on the photo to see my Bang and Olufsen ABR modification page and my testing information for these driver along with more pictures.

Have you ever walked into a home theater showroom and listened to their speakers only to be disappointed with their sound or pricing?  I shopped a lot of retail outlets to replace my vintage Kenwoods with some much better speakers.  The regular brick & mortar retail outlets didn't have the sound quality I wanted with their speakers, and the high end stores had speakers that cost as much as a new car, but their sound wasn't as good as what I expected for the price I was asked to fork over. 

That's when I decided that I could build my own if I worked hard at it.  I bought several books, spent hundreds and hundreds of hours on the internet, studied about many drivers and reports about many of them and how they were used in other's DIY projects along with their results.  I also spent a lot of time in the audio forums asking hundreds of questions.  It has been very costly to build mine because I've rebuilt them so many times until I got the results I wanted.  I have invested in crossover design software which has been a great tool. My passion became my speaker hobby. 

I encourage everyone who has the minimum required skills to build your own.  This hobby requires patience and diligence, and a lot of it.  To finally achieve a great sounding system makes it worthwhile even though it's taken several years for me to complete all of mine.  This is a hobby that you don't have to shell out a ton of money all at once.  You make your purchases as you progress with your projects.  It's like cutting out the expenses of going to a ball game or going out for couple of meals in a nice restaurant.  Those dollars can go towards something you can and will enjoy every day!

DIY speaker building is very rewarding when you have your completed project in your home stereo or theater. 

Visit my Photobucket and Yahoo websites to see some of my speaker hobby build work.  All of my speakers and crossovers have gone through several re-builds over the years to achieve the results that I'm finally happy with.

I set up this website to help others build their own DIY speaker hobby projects.   I'll be glad to answer any questions you may have or point you the right direction if I can't help.  A good friend of mine has a phrase we live by: "We're all in this together".

Mike@SpeakerHobby.com

Follow the link below to visit one of the largest home theater forums in the world.  The founder and co-owner Sonnie, is a very fine fellow and stays very involved with his website. There is a wealth of information here for the new or advanced speaker hobby enthusiast!