My Cabasse speakers for sale - space and money for next diy speakers

I am going to sale my Cabasse Jersey 222 floor standing speaker pair.

happy listening.

A new design - OB and Ripole sub

I am trying to make a value for money speaker set up with Ripole sub and open baffle (OB) speaker.

It is in the making.
Attached are some photos of first assembly. It is about to get paint now.
Drivers will be mounted post painting.

And here is the finshed version. Gaps are filled in. 

Balanced works are leg supports, and grilled speaker cover for the top.

Another piped driver speaker design.

I did my 3rd speaker design last Saturday. It is of Piping composition concept only, but this time acoustic behavior was similar to Pluto but drivers were completely different. Drivers were passive crossed over too with a simple capacitor (as it came with a Panasonic DVD player's speakers).

Because of the damping inside pipe and 180 degree horizontal sound wave direction and placing the speaker at least 3 feet away from both front and side wall, imaging was wonderful, sound clear, true to its content.
I compared it with my Tube and Cabasse set where the former one came out clearer. It does not have the heavy weight bass Cabasse brings out. It rather brings out distinct flavours, timbre sounds of individual instruments.

I believe I need to pack it more, and will be sealing it once they are properly packed. I need to steel base plates too, present baseplate is not heavy enough. It needs to be wide too.

I am happy listening it. I do not or intend to use instruments to measure sounds coming out of it as I will be listening it. My measurements are by my ear and other speakers only. These speakers are mostly made for my understanding of sound and pleasure of music only. I although feel these design is simple, effective, compact, can accommodate various drivers and can be played in rooms of various shapes and sizes. We only need to keep them 3 feet away from front and side walls while listening sound through it.

Here are some photos.

Piped driver, a 3 inch full ranger from a surround cabinet

Actually it is not a day effort if you consider mental calculations, reading, assembly processes that went through my mind, ut otherwise, it got finished in one day.
On last to last Saturday I supplied food to my gear acquisition syndrome, bought a used Panasonic 5 DVD player with 4 speaker set because I liked looks of the drivers there in.
Last Saturday I opened those surround speakers. Tried to fit them on PVC pipes.
It seemed working by physical and dimensional similarities. Gaps and mismatches seemed manageable.
Then I took one of the driver to a hardware shop, and found out that an elbow actually is holding the driver nicely. 
Bought two of those elbows and two pipe piece.
Then I took some plywood plates to a nearby wood shaping shop to get required holes in them. 
Later I placed those drivers on the elobow with MSeal.

And ran earthing wires to connect. I put some synthetic cottons inside and mass loaded them at the end too.
Here is the result.

Here is the latest version with increase in line length for more lower bass augmentation.

Sound to become music in a speaker

Have you listened songs impromptu in your drawing room? You must had or regularly have. Do you realize that those music sounds richer in base if the room is less absorptive.

The same wayit is not bad to have reflective sounds off your drivers/speakers. At the same time they should loose harmony, they shuld not colour the original sound but just add the warmth and or change depth of the music.

Open baffle speakers are simply open sound producing machine, almost like us and like any other music instrument. Place them at least 1m away from walls, they will give you open live musical sounds.

Let those drivers in your speaker box breath. Open the back end of your cabinet speaker, listen to it.
You will be amazed.

Why big driver

I love photography, shot some too!

for poor man's dream to be sucessful, I had to buy older lens which means quite old lens actually. but they come with fast aperture and fixed focal length. that helped me in toning my eye to reselct my area of composing correctly for the lens I have on my camera body.

Simalrly to conceive and achieve my dream I had to rely on cheap speakers. Means Public Anouncement speakers. Actually, later i found out those big PA drivers of those big speakers actually creates live programme like atmosphere at home.
Plus they generate a life like sound reproduction, a bit larger than life actually for some cases.

These PA drivers have quite good value of SPL. Mostly greater than 93 dB/W/m. Ahuja drivers has minimum of 97 dB/W/m. Means a run off the mill branded speakers of 89 SPL will struggle to produce sound with a 10 Watt amplifier, where these driver will fill your room.
Plus a larger diaphragm generates a pitch that emolute those musical instrument.

Try listening any song through your mobile and then listen the same song through your car speaker inside your car. You will understand what I meant.

Size does matter.

Secret of open baffle

There is nothing secret really, rather it is an illusion.

Illusion caused by delayed music that comes from the rear sound of the same driver. sound from the rear of the open baffle (OB) speaker gets reflected from the front wall (of the listener) and reaches listener bit delayed.
In presence of the sound projected by the front of the driver, this delayed sound creates a lovely 3 dimensional sound stage.

You get quite a depth depending on the music, room and ofcourse your speaker and amplifier set up.

What is a reproduction then?
Just an illusion of the recording studio or the live programme.