It’s easy to make a good speaker system; scarce materials are not needed for this. Speakers and building materials are sold in specialized stores, and everything else depends on your imagination and hard work. The question is relevant at present, when there are a lot of equipment on the market that does not match the parameters of your amplifier. There is no need to talk about the quality of the goods; a good speaker system is expensive. Do-it-yourself speakers even in the conditions of your own apartment, choosing their shape for the design of your interior. This event will cost much less than buying a new sophisticated speaker system. The advantages of a home-made device are also that you can calculate the maximum load for the amplifier and select the appropriate speakers for power.
Let's start, as usual, with design. DIY columns are first calculated on paper. Decide on the power and choose the dynamics. If you want to design and make your own audio speakers, it is best to use special car speakers for the car. If you like good sound and are looking for speakers for use in an apartment or a private house, you do not need to save on an amplifier.
The ideal option, in my opinion, are tube amplifiers. They do their job perfectly and amplify the signal from the intermediate amplifier without distortion. Some companies continue to produce them, but they are quite expensive. Determined with the power of the amplifier. We select the speakers so that their total power exceeds the power of the amplifier itself. This will save them from premature failure. You can not worry about the amplifier, it has built-in overload protection. Speakers are usually selected according to the following principle. A high-frequency speaker is installed on top, then a broadband and a low-frequency speaker, which is located closer to the floor.
Now a little about the material of the case itself. Do-it-yourself speakers require careful consideration both in design and in assembly. The denser the body material, the better the sound. You can take a chipboard sheet and directly transfer dimensions to it. Remember that a well-designed speaker, besides the speaker mounting holes, has small holes in the center of the case. This is done so that when the speakers are working, a vacuum is not created inside the case. If this is not foreseen, then the sound will begin to be distorted, since an obstacle will be created for the free movement of the speaker membrane.
Now you need to install the speakers and close them with decorative material on the front of the column. With our own hands we glue a decorative mosquito net or any other decorative material. The main thing is that it freely transmits sound, and in design matches the interior of the speaker itself. Now we glue the entire column with dermatin and solder already installed speakers in parallel. Ring the input impedance of the speaker with an ohmmeter. If everything is normal, start the test by connecting it to the amplifier.
By the same principle, you can assemble the speakers for the phone with your own hands, of course, in this case there is no need to choose high-power speakers.