Music is great!
In order to play it, you normally need speakers. They should be able to play any sound well. Especially the bass is of great significance, as every young person might might say. My old setup didn’t deliver too much, so I looked up a decent 2.1 system and was about to buy it.
But my dad proposed another idea. „Just build your own. That’s much better.“
Build my own? That is not easy… And you actually have to DO something, instead of just waiting for a parcel and unpacking.
Well, for the good sound you are willing to do much. So I started looking for a DIY-set and found speakers named ‘Mivoc Sidekick’. They were decently prized and were promised to be very powerful.
Except the wood, everything was included in the set. The result is ‘somewhat compact’, as you can see in the picture.
Let’s do this!!
So here one ‘technical’ post, being about building my speakers
Before the frequency filter, insulation material and the single speakers can be inserted, the housing has to be finished. We chose some 19mm thick MDF board, that has been lying around for years. My father build his own speakers with that exact material back in the days.
First we cut up the walls.
Then all the Openings for the single speakers and the screw terminal. (The speaker box concept is ‘closed’, so completely shut.)
So that the first bass kick doesn’t destruct the Speaker box we chose flat dowels and construction glue.
The speaker box in dry assembly:
(Here you can nicely see both chambers. A big one for the frequency filter and the subwoofer, as well as the smaller one for the sub-midrange-speakers and the tweeter.)
The greater the pressure, the better the glue results.
The corners rounded and completely painted it looks almost done already.
Meanwhile I had finished the frequency filter. As an electronics technician not a thing, even though in the end it looks more practical than nice…
She just has to fit in the housing PLUS I made it without using any additional wires inbetween the components. (The connections: +, -, TMT (sub-midrange-speakers), HT (tweeter))
Then I put it on a little board with hot glue and in the end we screwed them in together with the wiring.
Now for the actual part. After the insulation the speakers themselves. Solder, put in, screw tight. Done!
The 20cm subwoofer isn’t powered through my amplifier, it is powered each side through an own amplifier module. Now they all have enough power. The modules are situated underneath the desk, as to see in the first picture.
After extending my desk, having put cables, amplifiers und so on in place we were about to get it started! To taste the fruit of some days, sorrows and sweat…
Today I sit in my room in front of the speakers and I am happy every time. I crank them up so that the room is shaking, the quality is exquisite and the bass mighty. Keep in mind the size of them.)
I officially would like to thank my dad as without him, the project would never have been initiated and forget about finished.
Thank you daddy, you were so right!
