our house has a decent size game room that I plan to eventually turn in to a home theater. however until then, I wanted to setup a listening room to try out various speaker combos and also as a place to listen to help train my ears.
I finally got around to getting started on this, albeit it is a bit messy and unfinished. As I don't yet have any home amplifiers, or even a decent receiver, I took a spare rane 26z I had, one of the JL xd600/6's from the car (which is being rebuilt so the amp wasn't being used), hooked up my ipod to the rane, and used that as a starting point.
Starting off, I have a pair of AE TD10M speakers in a roughly 1 cubic foot enclosure each, paired with scan speak tweeters.
This is the pic I took right after I got it all playing.
I had this for about 2 weeks. The 10's are midranges and as such don't really do well at sub duties. so I needed a sub. I could have taken my JL13w7 upstairs but the thought of carrying that beast up a flight of stairs and the enclosure kept me from it. A while back I bought some Exodus Anarchy drivers to play with. And one enclosure I've been wanting to build for a year or two is the tapped horn designed for that speaker. it was designed by a guy on the AVS forum a few years ago who does several horn designs. This one is a 25hz tapped horn with a bandwidth of 25-100hz.
Here is a pic from part of the instructions:
The plans call for a single 5x5 sheet of baltic birch. I didn't have that, so I got a sheet of MDF instead. took 3/4 of that sheet to build this. Here is mine with the fold panels glued up:
The plans don't call for an access panel to get the sub in and out. It is meant to be put in before gluing on the 2nd side. but I wasn't sure if I was going to keep this, so I cut an access panel on mine, which can be see on the right side of that pic, and here:
It is 30" tall, 7 1/4" wide and I think 26" deep.
and here it is wired up
i had to readjust some levels because the sub isn't as sensitive as the other drivers, but once I got that settled in I was pleased with it. While it can do well on it's own, I think a second one would be wise and having four would really rock it.
As far as the AE/scan combo goes. well... they are frickn awesome
at the moment the sub xo is 100hz@24db to the AE. the AE to Scan crossover is 2k@12db. I originally had them @24db and they sounded fine without any issue. switched to 12db and the tweeters still don't complain. I may try 1500hz@24db just to see how that goes at some point.