Dayton Home Theater

[unknownuser]

I have built the DHT from Wayne J. site, but modifed the front baffle to create a tower speaker design, insted of the bookself design. I have not flush mounted the tweeter, yet. I think that they sound good, but I am able to "hear" were the sound is coming from, insted of the sound filling the room. Could this be from the fact that I altered the baffle size or the lack of flush mounting the tweeter? Currently the woofer and tweeter are in parallel would a reverse on the tweeter polarity fix this? Any other suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.


(Originally posted by: Bryce)

[andre]

> I have built the DHT from Wayne J. site, but
> modifed the front baffle to create a tower
> speaker design, insted of the bookself
> design. I have not flush mounted the
> tweeter, yet. I think that they sound good,
> but I am able to "hear" were the
> sound is coming from, insted of the sound
> filling the room. Could this be from the
> fact that I altered the baffle size or the
> lack of flush mounting the tweeter?
> Currently the woofer and tweeter are in
> parallel would a reverse on the tweeter
> polarity fix this? Any other suggestions
> would be appreciated, thanks.
May be this tweeter is very directive ! Try a ring of felt around the tweeter and if you are listening at equal distance from each speakers, try to toe the speakers inside. (Left speaker firing a little to your right and the right speaker to your left) It could be the front gear too, What is running the speakers? Good luck!

[unknownuser]

Thanks for the advice. The tweeter is the dayton titanium dome. I will try the felt and flush mounting. I am running them from a KLH all one one amp and DVD player with maybe if I'm lucky 15 watts (i know it's not ideal but I will be upgrading to a yamaha receiver with amount 100 watts which should help out quite a bit).


(Originally posted by: Bryce)

[andre]

> Thanks for the advice. The tweeter is the
> dayton titanium dome. I will try the felt
> and flush mounting. I am running them from a
> KLH all one one amp and DVD player with
> maybe if I'm lucky 15 watts (i know it's not
> ideal but I will be upgrading to a yamaha
> receiver with amount 100 watts which should
> help out quite a bit).
It won't help, it will fix most of your problems !!! anyway if it dosen't, just ask again

[unknownuser]

> Thanks for the advice. The tweeter is the
> dayton titanium dome. I will try the felt
> and flush mounting. I am running them from a
> KLH all one one amp and DVD player with
> maybe if I'm lucky 15 watts (i know it's not
> ideal but I will be upgrading to a yamaha
> receiver with amount 100 watts which should
> help out quite a bit).

Check the polarity and the crossover wiring first. Although not flush mounting will cause a small offset in phase, it should not be significant enough to cause easily audible change in frequency response.


(Originally posted by: James Lee)

[blaineg]

> I have built the DHT from Wayne J. site, but
> modifed the front baffle to create a tower
> speaker design, insted of the bookself
> design. I have not flush mounted the
> tweeter, yet. I think that they sound good,
> but I am able to "hear" were the
> sound is coming from, insted of the sound
> filling the room. Could this be from the
> fact that I altered the baffle size or the
> lack of flush mounting the tweeter?
> Currently the woofer and tweeter are in
> parallel would a reverse on the tweeter
> polarity fix this? Any other suggestions
> would be appreciated, thanks.

I am currently working on a design using
Dayton/vifa drivers.
I noticed you said you built these from the Wayne J. site. whats the address.
Tks.
Blaine

p.s. I'm building a set book shelf speakers into towers also.
I just hope I don't build them bigger than their britches!

[Bruce]

http://home.hawaii.rr.com/sanaka/AudioDIY/DHT/img3.gif


<A HREF="http://home.hawaii.rr.com/sanaka/AudioDIY/DHT/DHT.html">http://home.hawaii.rr.com/sanaka/AudioDIY/DHT/DHT.html</A>

<A HREF="http://www.partsexpress.com/projectshowcase/dht/index.html">http://www.partsexpress.com/projectshowcase/dht/index.html</A>

or the Triune that uses similar drivers

<A HREF="http://www.partsexpress.com/projectshowcase/triune/index.htm">http://www.partsexpress.com/projectshowcase/triune/index.htm</A>

[Dirk]

> I have built the DHT from Wayne J. site, but
> modifed the front baffle to create a tower
> speaker design, insted of the bookself
> design. I have not flush mounted the
> tweeter, yet. I think that they sound good,
> but I am able to "hear" were the
> sound is coming from, insted of the sound
> filling the room. Could this be from the
> fact that I altered the baffle size or the
> lack of flush mounting the tweeter?
> Currently the woofer and tweeter are in
> parallel would a reverse on the tweeter
> polarity fix this? Any other suggestions
> would be appreciated, thanks.

I'd try placement, first. Try using a little toe-in or separating them, or bringing them a bit closer together. I had a full set of the DHTs once upon a time, and while they were kind of "forward", they did a pretty decent disappearing act.