You asked what I play your episodes through. Currently a pair of JBL LSR308 monitors. I have a huge collection of other speakers, diy and commercially available, but right now these are my favorites for the office computer.
Currently, I'm running some 6" Yamaha full range drivers in an open baffle enclosure with a 1" Yamaha dome tweeter and a 2" vintage Technics tweeter. The crossover is made using film compositors from Germany. The amp is a Technics SU-Z960 that I just refurbished a few weeks ago. The entire system is made to run 120 watts rms. The frequency response is 5-30000 hrtz. Its nice to see the channel is alive!
Fantastic video man, I just built the TB 3'' Sub enclosure you designed. I listen to your videos on a Scarlet 2i2 with a Mackie CR8S splitting to my Personus Eris 3.5 running balanced through a Mackie Big Knob to control my volume and run to my headphone on my LOXJIE P20 Full Balance Tube Amplifier when I want to hear it through the Sennheiser HD 280 PROs. Love your videos keep them coming.
@@HexiBase it sounds good there is some port noise when I turn it up but other than that it sounds great. I am building some satellite speakers now to go with it so soon I’ll have a 2.1 system 3D printed.
I've read a few books on speaker design, thinking I have the bases of making something basic. But every time I watch one of your videos, I learn something new. Like controlling the X-Max in such a way to keep it bottoming out so you can push it farther.
This video is amazing. I've been dreaming about exactly this kind of build for at least 5 years now. So cool to see you bring one to life. I'd be very curious to see a slightly larger, full-range, single-driver purpose-built studio monitor with more low-end extension. I'd buy the plans for that. I don't care about sub bass or top end extension as long as the stuff in between is authentically represented.
Listening to your stuff on a pair of JBL LSR 305s, driven by a Motu M2 interface running at 48,000 kHz. Looking to acoustically treat my room with some actual, professionally made, bass traps, and I've got them spaced and dialed incredibly well for living in the average room with hard floors and 11x12 dimensions. Also, my trick for the day is that my bed serves as a bass trap along most of one of the walls, and hard floors and ceilings actually do a great job of making a small space sound even, if a bit live. All of the things I've got help break up any slapback, so all I really need is some traps to control bass, then to add small amounts of absorption to simply ensure the room isn't too live. I currently live in a space that, for the money, has been the single best listening experience of any place I lived in.
If you add air assist (compressor through a small nozzle - I use a 0.8mm 3D print nozzle) pointing at the cut you will get a much cleaner cut. Also, it is better to support the material off your baseboard. This will stop getting burn marks spreading from the cut on the back.
@@HexiBase I set the compressor to about 30PSI and have the nozzle about 15mm from the cut. It blows the burnt material out of the cut and you will find you also need fewer passes
I was thinking after watching the 3d printed bass tube and this video, that you may be the first person to understand and replicate the Bayz speaker layout. Love your thought process, explanation and determination here. Grateful that you share your experience here
next time you can design some holes on the plates so you can add some wood rods or simple skewers as guides to glue them together. This will result on much better alignment to the pieces. Great job BTW.
Since you asked what audio equipment we are using. Onboard audio from my Asus x399, to a Denon 3803 (yeah, it's old... But still sounds great) driving DefTech BP7001SCs in the front, Deftech BP2000s in the rear (soon to be replaced with BP7000SCs), and a C/L/R 3000 center. All in a room that's about 14'x14'. It's a little overkill, but it's fun.
Nice!!! Impressive as always. I bought your Earfun product bluetooth speaker, and man my wife was blown away and its impressive up against other speakers of its size!
Since you asked, I am running a pair of Tritrix 36" TLs that I built the cabinets for back in high school out of home depot "birch" veneer plywood. in the past year I added a grill made out of a poplar 1x2 frame wrapped with what is basically coarse window screen. I wanted a grill that wouldn't give if you push on them since I have a dog and a clumsy wife, and I would rather prepare for the possibility than risk being mad over a damaged tweeter I could have prevented. powering the tritrix is a dayton DTA-100A. it has more power than I could possibly need, especially since i am listening at my desk with the speakers less than 4 feet from my head, but it is clean and runs cool, and most importantly for me I finally have all the sources of electrical noise in my setup quieted down, as previously I had issues with the noise floor. as long as I can't hear audible distortion and there is no audible hiss or hum, i am happy as far as amplification is concerned.
That's quite a decent cut for only 5.5W! Listening to this on a Tempotec Sonata HD USB-C DAC with KZ ZS10 Pro (+ SpinFit eartips to compensate for sharp highs).
I try to use a pair of Monoprice M1060 planar magnetics or a pair of HD600s when watching your videos. More the HD600s as I think I remember you mentioning it was what you mixed your music with and what better to listen to your audio with than what you yourself mix the recordings with. I just built a large 3d printer to do my own speaker designs on. Im no acoustic engineer, but I use SoundEasy and BoxCAD for my modeling and measurements along with a relatively cheap Dayton Audio Electret microphone. I also use a DATS V3 for my TS parameters. I am more of a large scale 3-way speaker designer and would love to see a project of that magnitude done, either fully 3d printed, or a combination of the laser engraver and 3d printing as the boxes for large drivers can get into the 3cf-4cf range.
FYI, the pre-cut sheets at HD are more than twice the cost of a full 4x8 sheet. Last week i bought a full sheet of 1/2" MDF for $23 and they cut it into 2x4 pieces FOR FREE... the pre-cut 2x4 sheets were $12 each
This kind of stuff represents a paradigm shift in small space/desktop home audio. One of your ABS 3-d printed 5.25 enclosures for the sub with two of these and you have a very capable PC setup. Amazing work, man!
Nice! I have had ideas to use a CNC to utilize found lumber such as drift wood for similar projects, and while I have used laser cutters for metal before, there's certainly no reason they can't be used on wood as well! Glad to see another video, I was wondering what became of your posts, though I certainly understand how life can get busy. As for listening gear, at the moment, nothing special. Just the internal speakers to a 2012 13" MacBook Pro, even some cheap in ear headphones would presumably be better than their speaker output.
i have a set of b&w 601 s2 speakers, with a cheap home theater subwoofer all ran off a sony str k790. considering it's all goodwill finds, they sound amazing.
listening via Aiyima A07 with Dali Spektor 2’s alongside with hypex DS1.2 with a custom tline 70litres woofer enclosure tuned to 26Hz with 6.5” Logitech element. DAC is also Aliexpress special with LDAC bluetooth. these small builds are what impress me the most. will you be doing a tower build with small full-range drivers that hit low, something similar to Cyburg Needles maybe?
Quite impressive sound from a small speaker! My gear I use to listen: AudioQuest Dragonfly Red DAC → Rolls HR261"Sonic Exciter" → Schiit Magni 2 headphone amp → Sony MDR-Z7M2 headphones One of these days, I'd like to buy a headphone amp/dac that uses the balanced headphone jack, but a bit expensive at the moment.
Apogee Duet -> Schiit Jotunheim -> Sennheiser HD800s (balanced XLR4). I honestly can't hear much of a difference between balanced and unbalanced. Don't tell anyone but I can hardly hear a difference between the Jotunheim and the 1/4inch out of the Duet..... Maybe my ears aren't as good as I thought
Instead of smoothing the response, consider adjusting your time gate on your measurement to reduce some reflections. This is useful if you want to see what the speaker is doing without the room response.
Nice. Was worried you stopped doing videos. Oh yeah, the speakers. They sound really good even with just the bass knob cranked like that. It would be interesting to see what a DSP could do. I am not a high end audio guy so I am just listening through either a pair of HD280 or MDR-7506 headphones.
AUDIO GEAR: Realtek Digital Output - Realtek(R) Fiber Optic Cable Logitech Z-5500 DIGITAL Congratutations for best content, presentation and quality all arround ! (+ i might have some industry's wide concept for a project you might be interested in.)
Thanks for such an informative channel. I listen to your episodes using an Onkyo 8140 amp & custom speakers. Each speaker cabinet is 2 chamber, sealed and ported with dual 7" Dayton drivers & Morel 1 1/4" silk dome tweeters. A pair of 10" passive JBL subwoofers in custom sealed cabinets cover 100Hz -20Hz attached to B channel output. I use this system for myown developments, critical listening and daily entertainment.
you need to upgrade the laser to the 40w NEJE. youll get 3x the speed. the 40w is really 15 watt but its 40watt consumption with dual lasers focused to 1 15 watt optical power beam. cuts walnut like butter same with cedar but its quite a bit more oily of a cut.
A treat as always! I need to get my butt in gear and use my new CNC router to build some carbon fiber speakers! Well, I'll use the router to machine a mold for laminating carbon fiber.... (Right now the only thing I know for sure is the speakers need to be carbon fiber, because reasons.)
Really enjoying your content, thank you for creating it. Your content sounds exceptional. My viewing equipment includes a Yamaha HTR-8063 receiver, a pair of Polk Audio RTI-8's for front left and right, 2 Polk RTI-8's as a center channel, and a pair of polk Bi/Di pole for surrounds. The centre channels are powered using a Yorkville power amp. I'm using a 12" B&W sub and have replaced the driver with a Rockford Fossgate P1. I'm using a Chromecast to stream content to the Yamaha receiver and an Acer projector as the display.
I see you ended up boosting the top end as well, but damn was it worth it. Astounding range for being a single driver -- I've heard two-way speakers that couldn't do that. Aside from some ~120 Hz mud (which might just be my headphones), I like the far field sound best. It carries really well without being too punchy or too sharp. 👍 I'm listening through a pair of Sony MDR-V600 headphones (which I pulled the foam out of the drivers' magnets), using a Sony surround receiver as a TOSLINK-driven headphone amp.
very cool build looks like a lot of fun to make these. Listening to these on some Energy Veritas Mini speakers being driven by an Cambridge sound works dtt3500 amp that i had for an very old computer speaker setup. sounds quite nice.
FX-Audio DAC-X6 --> Equalizer APO (for cancelling 8kHz bump and boosting sub-30Hz)--> Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro 32 Ohm. First vid I've seen from you since I got this setup! Sounds incredible for such a small driver. Maybe due to my excessive custom bass boost, your little speaker seems to drop to ~40Hz in room in sounds like. Are all your demo songs are your own compositions? If so, very fun synthwork on your tracks :).
You might want to put a matt black finish on your laser bed instead of the reflective steel. Your laser will last longer. Alternately, you could buy a metal honeycomb that other laser cutters tend to use.
Awesome awesome! I watch your videos on my living room on by big screen. Absolutely love your work. My family thinks I'm weird watching them because you're very technical and I can't follow but I love seeing your projects and listening to outcome.
At 3:54, 4:36 and 7:57 the Dayton speaker boxes and spec sheet, read ND64-4 but the video notes say ND65-4. There's a big difference in price AND performance... so take care which you go with. IMHO, looking at the Frequency Response at 6:43, I'd say Hexi ran with the ND65-4. (The ND64-4 spec sheet shows it dropping off at around 200, even though it's rated down to 100.)
I watch these videos through a pair of active 2-way BMR loudspeakers (linear crossover) that have been EQd so that the average power response (90 degree measurement mic averaged throughout the listening area) matches the Harman ideal studio room curve (also applied through interpolated linear FIR). Hope you found that interesting and love your videos! 😉
Really clever application of the laser cutter. I'm thinking the glued up laminated interior sheets would be extremely sturdy. That sturdiness would be very useful ina subwoofer build. LOLS Would this laser be able to burn through 1 inch MDF?
@Martin Yung if you plan to do something similar with a lot of wood, my experience is that CNC mills tend to be more economical as contrasted with laser cutters. They're both subtractive systems (as contrasted with the additive nature of 3D printers) however, the CNC mill drill bits tend to be less expensive to replace than laser cutter heads. You should also be able to get away with deeper cuts into most woods including MDF, whereas laser cutters excel at harder materials such as metal which may often destroy less expensive engraver level home CNCs drill bits. You can look at Titans of CNC for higher end machines useful for milling solid blocks of Titanium which might challenge this level of laser cutter, but those systems are far outside a home hobbyist level budget. A lot of the science behind this sort of stuff is knowing when to use what sort of tool and how to operate it optimally so as to produce output while minimizing wear and tear on the tools and thus maximizing their operating life cycles. Another possibility that working with wood opens up (this applies to laser cutters and CNCs alike and naturally even the traditional subtractive tools such as chisels) is the application of joinery techniques, which can mitigate or lessen the need for binders such as glue, potentially entirely. e.g. ruclips.net/video/OJdICoGX9iM/видео.html Needless to say, some of this stuff parallels ideas I've been wanting to work on myself, but unfortunately I've had more than my fair share of "life" getting in the way, for seemingly far too long. Even some of the drift wood which I had scoured from beaches ended up getting displaced as I presently do not have a stable home of my own and even rent on my storage unit went up despite still contending with unemployment at the moment.
Good to see you back, if you ever feel like bouncing ideas off someone feel free to drop me a message, I did quite a lot of work with 3d printed speakers and you may have seen mine around.
Most of these diode lasers will cut thin ply, you just need to get the focus and settings right, but there are some quite powerful laser modules coming out now, biggest issue is you need good ventilation to use them :)
I was really starting to think you dropped your channel off a cliff... Missed you! I'm wondering if my brother's glowforge can accomplish similar results. It doesn't run on cad, so the conversation is bound to be centered on how to translate the information.
You can use Autodesk Slicer to turn a 3D model into stacked layers perfect for laser cutting. Can set whatever thickness of sheet you can laser cut. I did this to recreate the Hexibase dual 3" subwoofer using stacked 1/2" plywood cut with my CO2 laser.
Very impressive for a first time lasercutter experience! As for what I'm listening on, it's just a pair of SHP9500s on my phone's internal headphones output. Nothing special, and these headphones are due for a replacement. 3 years old and the right side's starting to cut out as presumably the cable between the two sides fails
seems to have a nice punchy mid. maybe the treble/high could use a bit of toning down. i bet they would like nice with some sanding and some oil staining or whatever its called. didnt use tv speakers this time, onkyo 656, heco victa 701,yamaha yst-rsw300.
Amazing how 65Hz can be more than enough for casual listening. Small high excursion drivers + DSP is how most small speakers play useable bass at low volume levels. I have a 4th Gen Echo and it's absolutely fine for background music.
Dude -- so glad you're back! And really good to see that theres finally precision tool I can afford. And a very interesting little speaker too. thank you! oh, and I'm listening through these: mac mini --> Cyrus Pre XPD --> single mosfet amps made myself --> ancient Stax Lambdas from the 70s
Good to see you back. I just designed my own DCAAV enclosure for a woofer and I have absolutely no clue how it's going to perform until I build it. Maybe you can shed some tips about those
Nice work mt friend.. idk if you've seen the new style connectors their making out of rre earth magnets it still ohm the exact same as post for your connection sorce...
Modular 3D printed Soundbar: Ever considered a build like that? Would love to see what you came up with! Good to see you back and you're sounding great on my Wireless Corsair HS70's :)
@@HexiBase I have a Creality Ender 3 (build volume of 220 x 220 x 250) and was thinking modular in the sense of individual speaker enclosures that could be printed then stacked together; Tweets (T), Mids (M) and Bass (B) modules that could be mixed and matched e.g. M/T/M/B\M\T\M; The wider the TV the more individual modules could be joined up: 32" TV = 7 sections, 58" TV = 10 sections!
I think he meant the "plug" from the hole, not the hole itself. Can you think of ANY tool that can cut out a ~2mm diameter perfectly round dowel from 1/4" plywood? I think that's his point.
@@SuperDavidEF Thanks Dave, for a second there it seemed like people were simply enjoying the joke without a real understanding of the video. You're doing God's work, son.
@@Pigeoning Sorry. I'm one of the truly weird people in the world. Jokes aren't funny at all to me unless they make sense. Your joke makes no sense. Have a nice day.
@@SuperDavidEF You've spent too much time on the internet, Dave. Not only are you a sad little hall monitor policing RUclips comments you think you're funny. This is a devastatingly bad combo for you. A good long look in the mirror along with some earnest soul searching may do you some good. Or you can continue doing this, which is sad. In any case me getting you to read all this as if I give a flying fuck is how it's done. There's nothing worse than a lame troll, Dave.
I can't be the only one that thinks Dayton doesn't get nearly enough recognition for exceptionally priced drivers. listening on skull candy ink'd ear buds 😔
Agree, sad it's a pain to get them in russia. A Dayton's sub came on top of a lot of other subs i was selecting for an enclosure i had. Works good, very power-efficient... tinsel wires are a bit short, that concerns me, but so far so good.
He's alive!!!!
@@HexiBase 😂
You asked what I play your episodes through. Currently a pair of JBL LSR308 monitors. I have a huge collection of other speakers, diy and commercially available, but right now these are my favorites for the office computer.
"What audio equipment you play these through": a small opening in my phone's bottom filled with dust...
Currently, I'm running some 6" Yamaha full range drivers in an open baffle enclosure with a 1" Yamaha dome tweeter and a 2" vintage Technics tweeter. The crossover is made using film compositors from Germany. The amp is a Technics SU-Z960 that I just refurbished a few weeks ago. The entire system is made to run 120 watts rms. The frequency response is 5-30000 hrtz. Its nice to see the channel is alive!
Fantastic video man, I just built the TB 3'' Sub enclosure you designed. I listen to your videos on a Scarlet 2i2 with a Mackie CR8S splitting to my Personus Eris 3.5 running balanced through a Mackie Big Knob to control my volume and run to my headphone on my LOXJIE P20 Full Balance Tube Amplifier when I want to hear it through the Sennheiser HD 280 PROs. Love your videos keep them coming.
@@HexiBase it sounds good there is some port noise when I turn it up but other than that it sounds great. I am building some satellite speakers now to go with it so soon I’ll have a 2.1 system 3D printed.
I've read a few books on speaker design, thinking I have the bases of making something basic. But every time I watch one of your videos, I learn something new. Like controlling the X-Max in such a way to keep it bottoming out so you can push it farther.
This video is amazing. I've been dreaming about exactly this kind of build for at least 5 years now. So cool to see you bring one to life. I'd be very curious to see a slightly larger, full-range, single-driver purpose-built studio monitor with more low-end extension. I'd buy the plans for that. I don't care about sub bass or top end extension as long as the stuff in between is authentically represented.
Listening to your stuff on a pair of JBL LSR 305s, driven by a Motu M2 interface running at 48,000 kHz. Looking to acoustically treat my room with some actual, professionally made, bass traps, and I've got them spaced and dialed incredibly well for living in the average room with hard floors and 11x12 dimensions. Also, my trick for the day is that my bed serves as a bass trap along most of one of the walls, and hard floors and ceilings actually do a great job of making a small space sound even, if a bit live. All of the things I've got help break up any slapback, so all I really need is some traps to control bass, then to add small amounts of absorption to simply ensure the room isn't too live.
I currently live in a space that, for the money, has been the single best listening experience of any place I lived in.
If you add air assist (compressor through a small nozzle - I use a 0.8mm 3D print nozzle) pointing at the cut you will get a much cleaner cut. Also, it is better to support the material off your baseboard. This will stop getting burn marks spreading from the cut on the back.
@@HexiBase I set the compressor to about 30PSI and have the nozzle about 15mm from the cut. It blows the burnt material out of the cut and you will find you also need fewer passes
listening through my DynAudio Audience 72s, running through Xone 96, and Crown XLS 2502 Amp.
I was thinking after watching the 3d printed bass tube and this video, that you may be the first person to understand and replicate the Bayz speaker layout. Love your thought process, explanation and determination here. Grateful that you share your experience here
Finally, someone doing speakers with some technical background. Very nice.
next time you can design some holes on the plates so you can add some wood rods or simple skewers as guides to glue them together. This will result on much better alignment to the pieces.
Great job BTW.
@@HexiBase just a little salt helps to avoid the shifts between wood plates when gluing them together. Some guitar building videos show that technic
Since you asked what audio equipment we are using. Onboard audio from my Asus x399, to a Denon 3803 (yeah, it's old... But still sounds great) driving DefTech BP7001SCs in the front, Deftech BP2000s in the rear (soon to be replaced with BP7000SCs), and a C/L/R 3000 center. All in a room that's about 14'x14'. It's a little overkill, but it's fun.
Nice!!! Impressive as always. I bought your Earfun product bluetooth speaker, and man my wife was blown away and its impressive up against other speakers of its size!
Awesome unit. Also space balls is my favorite movie
listening through my 2500 watt custom built home theatre surround sound system! very nice job!
Wow that sounded amazing! Full- bodied warm and punchy like you stated.
Since you asked, I am running a pair of Tritrix 36" TLs that I built the cabinets for back in high school out of home depot "birch" veneer plywood. in the past year I added a grill made out of a poplar 1x2 frame wrapped with what is basically coarse window screen. I wanted a grill that wouldn't give if you push on them since I have a dog and a clumsy wife, and I would rather prepare for the possibility than risk being mad over a damaged tweeter I could have prevented. powering the tritrix is a dayton DTA-100A. it has more power than I could possibly need, especially since i am listening at my desk with the speakers less than 4 feet from my head, but it is clean and runs cool, and most importantly for me I finally have all the sources of electrical noise in my setup quieted down, as previously I had issues with the noise floor. as long as I can't hear audible distortion and there is no audible hiss or hum, i am happy as far as amplification is concerned.
For a 2 inch driver that is impressive 😍
That's quite a decent cut for only 5.5W! Listening to this on a Tempotec Sonata HD USB-C DAC with KZ ZS10 Pro (+ SpinFit eartips to compensate for sharp highs).
Me trying to buy components from parts-express after a Hexibase video: "Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!"
@@HexiBase yeah, that driver has "expected stock 9/19" 😄
Woop woop....he is alive indeed!!!
I try to use a pair of Monoprice M1060 planar magnetics or a pair of HD600s when watching your videos. More the HD600s as I think I remember you mentioning it was what you mixed your music with and what better to listen to your audio with than what you yourself mix the recordings with. I just built a large 3d printer to do my own speaker designs on. Im no acoustic engineer, but I use SoundEasy and BoxCAD for my modeling and measurements along with a relatively cheap Dayton Audio Electret microphone. I also use a DATS V3 for my TS parameters. I am more of a large scale 3-way speaker designer and would love to see a project of that magnitude done, either fully 3d printed, or a combination of the laser engraver and 3d printing as the boxes for large drivers can get into the 3cf-4cf range.
FYI, the pre-cut sheets at HD are more than twice the cost of a full 4x8 sheet. Last week i bought a full sheet of 1/2" MDF for $23 and they cut it into 2x4 pieces FOR FREE... the pre-cut 2x4 sheets were $12 each
This kind of stuff represents a paradigm shift in small space/desktop home audio. One of your ABS 3-d printed 5.25 enclosures for the sub with two of these and you have a very capable PC setup. Amazing work, man!
Finally we get a hexibase video please keep them coming.
If ya put some of these DIY kits pre cut up for sale at a reasonable and affordable price I bet you would have people lining up to get em!
i watched this on a work terminal with an onboard system speaker. everything sounded great from what i could tell
Yet again, another creative and intelligent piece of content. Thank you for sharing and inspiring others 🙏
Listening wiht Neumann NDH 20's, through a SSL2 audio interface. Track 3 has a surprising amount of low-end.
Nice! I have had ideas to use a CNC to utilize found lumber such as drift wood for similar projects, and while I have used laser cutters for metal before, there's certainly no reason they can't be used on wood as well! Glad to see another video, I was wondering what became of your posts, though I certainly understand how life can get busy.
As for listening gear, at the moment, nothing special. Just the internal speakers to a 2012 13" MacBook Pro, even some cheap in ear headphones would presumably be better than their speaker output.
i have a set of b&w 601 s2 speakers, with a cheap home theater subwoofer all ran off a sony str k790. considering it's all goodwill finds, they sound amazing.
listening via Aiyima A07 with Dali Spektor 2’s alongside with hypex DS1.2 with a custom tline 70litres woofer enclosure tuned to 26Hz with 6.5” Logitech element. DAC is also Aliexpress special with LDAC bluetooth.
these small builds are what impress me the most. will you be doing a tower build with small full-range drivers that hit low, something similar to Cyburg Needles maybe?
Quite impressive sound from a small speaker!
My gear I use to listen:
AudioQuest Dragonfly Red DAC → Rolls HR261"Sonic Exciter" → Schiit Magni 2 headphone amp → Sony MDR-Z7M2 headphones
One of these days, I'd like to buy a headphone amp/dac that uses the balanced headphone jack, but a bit expensive at the moment.
Apogee Duet -> Schiit Jotunheim -> Sennheiser HD800s (balanced XLR4). I honestly can't hear much of a difference between balanced and unbalanced. Don't tell anyone but I can hardly hear a difference between the Jotunheim and the 1/4inch out of the Duet..... Maybe my ears aren't as good as I thought
Instead of smoothing the response, consider adjusting your time gate on your measurement to reduce some reflections. This is useful if you want to see what the speaker is doing without the room response.
Nice work. Zinc fumes from hot galvanised steel are toxic. I wouldn't use it as a back plate.
Nice. Was worried you stopped doing videos. Oh yeah, the speakers. They sound really good even with just the bass knob cranked like that. It would be interesting to see what a DSP could do.
I am not a high end audio guy so I am just listening through either a pair of HD280 or MDR-7506 headphones.
Because "F" Scissors ....... That need's to be your new Merch line. I would buy it.
I've been looking to expand my knowledge on Lasers and I just visited Ortur's website. Thank you for the video.
Will you be releasing plans for these like you did with your 3d printed enclosures? I have a cnc and would love to build this little guy.
AUDIO GEAR:
Realtek Digital Output - Realtek(R)
Fiber Optic Cable
Logitech Z-5500 DIGITAL
Congratutations for best content, presentation and quality all arround !
(+ i might have some industry's wide concept for a project you might be interested in.)
Thanks for such an informative channel.
I listen to your episodes using an Onkyo 8140 amp & custom speakers. Each speaker cabinet is 2 chamber, sealed and ported with dual 7" Dayton drivers & Morel 1 1/4" silk dome tweeters. A pair of 10" passive JBL subwoofers in custom sealed cabinets cover 100Hz -20Hz attached to B channel output.
I use this system for myown developments, critical listening and daily entertainment.
Listening on Genelec 8050 & 7040 - really impressive result considering that's on first try and before DSP
...7:47 - Is the only important qualifying statement encouraging anyone to buy a laser for cutting.. I whole heartedly agree =)
you need to upgrade the laser to the 40w NEJE. youll get 3x the speed. the 40w is really 15 watt but its 40watt consumption with dual lasers focused to 1 15 watt optical power beam. cuts walnut like butter same with cedar but its quite a bit more oily of a cut.
A treat as always! I need to get my butt in gear and use my new CNC router to build some carbon fiber speakers! Well, I'll use the router to machine a mold for laminating carbon fiber.... (Right now the only thing I know for sure is the speakers need to be carbon fiber, because reasons.)
Really enjoying your content, thank you for creating it. Your content sounds exceptional. My viewing equipment includes a Yamaha HTR-8063 receiver, a pair of Polk Audio RTI-8's for front left and right, 2 Polk RTI-8's as a center channel, and a pair of polk Bi/Di pole for surrounds. The centre channels are powered using a Yorkville power amp. I'm using a 12" B&W sub and have replaced the driver with a Rockford Fossgate P1. I'm using a Chromecast to stream content to the Yamaha receiver and an Acer projector as the display.
I see you ended up boosting the top end as well, but damn was it worth it. Astounding range for being a single driver -- I've heard two-way speakers that couldn't do that. Aside from some ~120 Hz mud (which might just be my headphones), I like the far field sound best. It carries really well without being too punchy or too sharp. 👍 I'm listening through a pair of Sony MDR-V600 headphones (which I pulled the foam out of the drivers' magnets), using a Sony surround receiver as a TOSLINK-driven headphone amp.
very cool build looks like a lot of fun to make these. Listening to these on some Energy Veritas Mini speakers being driven by an Cambridge sound works dtt3500 amp that i had for an very old computer speaker setup. sounds quite nice.
I'm just listening trough my Vantage A-4.1's and SW-101
FX-Audio DAC-X6 --> Equalizer APO (for cancelling 8kHz bump and boosting sub-30Hz)--> Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro 32 Ohm. First vid I've seen from you since I got this setup! Sounds incredible for such a small driver. Maybe due to my excessive custom bass boost, your little speaker seems to drop to ~40Hz in room in sounds like.
Are all your demo songs are your own compositions? If so, very fun synthwork on your tracks :).
That machine would be great for making templet's.
Super cool, thanks for sharing!
I’ve always wondered how you calculate the theoretical response of the enclosure, is there some kind of software that uses a CAD model?
You might want to put a matt black finish on your laser bed instead of the reflective steel. Your laser will last longer. Alternately, you could buy a metal honeycomb that other laser cutters tend to use.
Why you dont upload video. last video in 5 months
I really hope you are wearing laser safety glasses with that robotic retina fryer.
Hifiman Sundara - Schiit Hel, sounds good! Excellent video. I'm a sucker for folded horns; and the like.
Awesome awesome! I watch your videos on my living room on by big screen. Absolutely love your work. My family thinks I'm weird watching them because you're very technical and I can't follow but I love seeing your projects and listening to outcome.
Listening on Kali Audio LP-6 and voice over sounded spot on.
At 3:54, 4:36 and 7:57 the Dayton speaker boxes and spec sheet, read ND64-4 but the video notes say ND65-4.
There's a big difference in price AND performance... so take care which you go with.
IMHO, looking at the Frequency Response at 6:43, I'd say Hexi ran with the ND65-4.
(The ND64-4 spec sheet shows it dropping off at around 200, even though it's rated down to 100.)
waitin for driver excursion explanation about impedance and fs, and breflex vs sealed.
thanks!!
Could you please create smth with not square port design but triangular.
I watch these videos through a pair of active 2-way BMR loudspeakers (linear crossover) that have been EQd so that the average power response (90 degree measurement mic averaged throughout the listening area) matches the Harman ideal studio room curve (also applied through interpolated linear FIR). Hope you found that interesting and love your videos! 😉
Forgot to mention, they are of course 3d printed! The tweeter-mid pods at least. Rest is CNCed
I would really like to see what you could do when combining the laser with printing.
Really clever application of the laser cutter. I'm thinking the glued up laminated interior sheets would be extremely sturdy. That sturdiness would be very useful ina subwoofer build. LOLS Would this laser be able to burn through 1 inch MDF?
@Martin Yung if you plan to do something similar with a lot of wood, my experience is that CNC mills tend to be more economical as contrasted with laser cutters. They're both subtractive systems (as contrasted with the additive nature of 3D printers) however, the CNC mill drill bits tend to be less expensive to replace than laser cutter heads. You should also be able to get away with deeper cuts into most woods including MDF, whereas laser cutters excel at harder materials such as metal which may often destroy less expensive engraver level home CNCs drill bits. You can look at Titans of CNC for higher end machines useful for milling solid blocks of Titanium which might challenge this level of laser cutter, but those systems are far outside a home hobbyist level budget. A lot of the science behind this sort of stuff is knowing when to use what sort of tool and how to operate it optimally so as to produce output while minimizing wear and tear on the tools and thus maximizing their operating life cycles.
Another possibility that working with wood opens up (this applies to laser cutters and CNCs alike and naturally even the traditional subtractive tools such as chisels) is the application of joinery techniques, which can mitigate or lessen the need for binders such as glue, potentially entirely. e.g. ruclips.net/video/OJdICoGX9iM/видео.html
Needless to say, some of this stuff parallels ideas I've been wanting to work on myself, but unfortunately I've had more than my fair share of "life" getting in the way, for seemingly far too long. Even some of the drift wood which I had scoured from beaches ended up getting displaced as I presently do not have a stable home of my own and even rent on my storage unit went up despite still contending with unemployment at the moment.
Good to see you back, if you ever feel like bouncing ideas off someone feel free to drop me a message, I did quite a lot of work with 3d printed speakers and you may have seen mine around.
Your voice seems clearer and louder
Most of these diode lasers will cut thin ply, you just need to get the focus and settings right, but there are some quite powerful laser modules coming out now, biggest issue is you need good ventilation to use them :)
Listening through Cambridge audio amp & dac combo plus my trusty Kef ls50's paired with a svs 12" sub
I was really starting to think you dropped your channel off a cliff... Missed you! I'm wondering if my brother's glowforge can accomplish similar results. It doesn't run on cad, so the conversation is bound to be centered on how to translate the information.
You can use Autodesk Slicer to turn a 3D model into stacked layers perfect for laser cutting. Can set whatever thickness of sheet you can laser cut. I did this to recreate the Hexibase dual 3" subwoofer using stacked 1/2" plywood cut with my CO2 laser.
Glowforge sure can! You can have some fun with a glowforge!!
What would help with stacking the layers more precisely, ist to cut two index holes in each piece and use a dowl to keep the layers in an exact order.
Very impressive for a first time lasercutter experience! As for what I'm listening on, it's just a pair of SHP9500s on my phone's internal headphones output. Nothing special, and these headphones are due for a replacement. 3 years old and the right side's starting to cut out as presumably the cable between the two sides fails
seems to have a nice punchy mid. maybe the treble/high could use a bit of toning down. i bet they would like nice with some sanding and some oil staining or whatever its called.
didnt use tv speakers this time, onkyo 656, heco victa 701,yamaha yst-rsw300.
Amazing how 65Hz can be more than enough for casual listening. Small high excursion drivers + DSP is how most small speakers play useable bass at low volume levels. I have a 4th Gen Echo and it's absolutely fine for background music.
Dude -- so glad you're back! And really good to see that theres finally precision tool I can afford. And a very interesting little speaker too. thank you!
oh, and I'm listening through these:
mac mini --> Cyrus Pre XPD --> single mosfet amps made myself --> ancient Stax Lambdas from the 70s
Pete has all the cool gadgets.
Damn....thats some sweet sound for a small form factor. Wish I could get this design ;)
About time. I don't usually get this excited about a youtube notification
@@HexiBase just the "like" button when I slapped it
Aw man, I missed ya Pete. My life started to slowly lose meaning without regular uploads..
the sound on your vids is so good. Keep it up
Sounding great on my HD 650's! Good video quality mate.
This Chanel is awesome! Would you happen to have this design in stl file I would like to print it
Good to see you back. I just designed my own DCAAV enclosure for a woofer and I have absolutely no clue how it's going to perform until I build it. Maybe you can shed some tips about those
How the simulation works would be cool to see for sure
Are we to assume that the next design will be an improved version of this one? It would be nice to get a vector file for use on a cnc router.
Nice work mt friend.. idk if you've seen the new style connectors their making out of rre earth magnets it still ohm the exact same as post for your connection sorce...
Modular 3D printed Soundbar: Ever considered a build like that? Would love to see what you came up with! Good to see you back and you're sounding great on my Wireless Corsair HS70's :)
@@HexiBase Creality CR30! That would make for a good "review" video for the printer I think. Showing off the belt by printing a soundbar
@@HexiBase I have a Creality Ender 3 (build volume of 220 x 220 x 250) and was thinking modular in the sense of individual speaker enclosures that could be printed then stacked together; Tweets (T), Mids (M) and Bass (B) modules that could be mixed and matched e.g. M/T/M/B\M\T\M; The wider the TV the more individual modules could be joined up: 32" TV = 7 sections, 58" TV = 10 sections!
Finally your vid come
can you do a video onextracting t/s parameters without expensive equipment?
Amazing!!! Tks for the video. Greetings from Brazil.
Awesome video! And I play yt videos through a set of Fluance Signature bookshelf speakers and a diy powered 10" subwoofer.
id like to see some sort of multi material with a frequency of give that creates a special kind of feedback.
Would you trust a layered/laminated approach like this for a larger (10-12") subwoofer? Just a standard auto subwoofer box.
Glad to see you're back!
Your videos are awesome. See if you can make a cheap 3d printed speaker on par with a widely known expensive brand.
Listening on my ultimate ears boom 3 sounds great
Good to see your back
"Try doing that with a router."
His drill : "am i joke to you"?
I think he meant the "plug" from the hole, not the hole itself. Can you think of ANY tool that can cut out a ~2mm diameter perfectly round dowel from 1/4" plywood? I think that's his point.
@@SuperDavidEF Thanks Dave, for a second there it seemed like people were simply enjoying the joke without a real understanding of the video. You're doing God's work, son.
@@Pigeoning Sorry. I'm one of the truly weird people in the world. Jokes aren't funny at all to me unless they make sense. Your joke makes no sense. Have a nice day.
@@SuperDavidEF You've spent too much time on the internet, Dave. Not only are you a sad little hall monitor policing RUclips comments you think you're funny.
This is a devastatingly bad combo for you.
A good long look in the mirror along with some earnest soul searching may do you some good. Or you can continue doing this, which is sad.
In any case me getting you to read all this as if I give a flying fuck is how it's done. There's nothing worse than a lame troll, Dave.
@@Pigeoning Heh. Glad I could help you feel better.
Any channel that references Spaceballs gets my vote!
I can't be the only one that thinks Dayton doesn't get nearly enough recognition for exceptionally priced drivers. listening on skull candy ink'd ear buds 😔
Hola lo felicito por los vídeos. Me gusta mucho lo que hace, un abrazó de Argentina .
Honestly tho, Dayton is absolutely awesome. I've got a reference 15 and that thing kicks absolute ass
Agree, sad it's a pain to get them in russia.
A Dayton's sub came on top of a lot of other subs i was selecting for an enclosure i had. Works good, very power-efficient... tinsel wires are a bit short, that concerns me, but so far so good.