Excellent craftsmanship!

Its always nice to watch people with the same interest but some step and skill ahead of mine. Thx for the video. Im gonna start making my aluminum speaker tomorrow.

The best sounding speaker is the one that sounds best for you and no other opinion on the internet really matters. I applaud the fact that you wanted to venture into the "unknown" and did things your own way and didn't go down the copy generation mentality. For me there is a difference between someone speculating about something and someone actually doing it. The only way we push boundaries is by experimenting and doing things, and so you did. We don't see pure aluminum enclosures because of material and production/processing costs. There are so many ways to manipulate and damp enclosures so I FULLY support your venture into seeing what is possible. That is where magic happens :)

My first impulse was to make a joke if you were ever a member of that A-ha band. But then you showed that die foe deep forming (stamping) and I thought: blimey... this guy is serious. So... have you ever thought of aluminum casting ? This way you could implement waveguide and some isogrid stiffening on the inside.

Hey hope you hit your 1000 subs soon 😊😊

I wish I could have Tig welded that for this video. I wonder what a 3 cube box with a slot port

Aluminum is typically not a good material from which to make speaker enclosures. As far as I know, the only successful ones made from this material have used thick-walled castings.

@vesatiainen9701

4 жыл бұрын

Check out genelec or magico speakers. Genelec uses casting and magico extrusions. More and more aluminum box speakers are coming to market.

@JulianEdgar

4 жыл бұрын

@@vesatiainen9701 Interesting, but I remain unconvinced! Not sure why you'd pick a material that rings a lot, then have to damp it an equally great amount.... rather than start with a material that doesn't ring much. My pick is concrete.

@vesatiainen9701

4 жыл бұрын

@@JulianEdgar where does the ring get started as speakers elements are basicly moving freely from the enclosure? Subwoofer frequencies are much lower where there is more energy involved.

@JulianEdgar

4 жыл бұрын

@@vesatiainen9701 All enclosure panels have natural resonant frequencies. These are the the frequencies at which the enclosure walls, floor (etc) will become excited when the air pressure fluctuations (ie sound waves) within the enclosure match the natural resonant frequencies of the panel. The internal damping of the material (ie how dead it sounds when struck) is a good indication of how excited the panels will get. Hit a lump of aluminum with a hammer. Now hit a similar thickness of concrete with a hammer. Which rings - and which doesn't? Now, make a spherical speaker enclosure from concrete. Stiff and non-resonant (dead).

@vesatiainen9701

4 жыл бұрын

Its true that conrete is better in the sense of ringing. There are some manufacturer that makes conrete boxes, problems start to come with weigth easily. Just this aluminum one weigths around 55kg If you plan to ship them abroad or just moving it inside the house. Friend made one box from stone and it was also dead. I have used polyester resin with sand glasfiber mix in some previous projects inside the box to make it more rigid.