Most Ambitious First Project?

[nobby]

I am looking for the award for most ambitious first project. I have been lurking here awhile and reading up and now think I am ready to attempt my first project. For this project, I have decided to try and create a speaker inspired by the Regent from the now-defunct Paragon audio. Heard these once back in the late '90's, and always thought they were some of the finest sounding (and coolest looking) speakers I had ever heard.



The nitty gritty: a tapered TL in an MTM floor standing arrangement (similar to a TriTrix). However, I will be attempting a few improvements to the Regent: namely, the use of physically time-aligned drivers. The overall cabinets will look similar, but the baffles seen in the Regents will be angled to align the voice coils.

For drivers, I have stayed (relatively) modest: the Peerless 831735 buyout 6.5" woofer and the B&G Neo3PDRW planar tweeter. I've got some preliminary crossover designs and a (very) rough idea of the cabinet size. I am a fairly competent woodworker, so the cabinets don't worry me too much, but overall I suspect I getting myself into a project the scope of which I can scarcely imagine.

So, am I nuts?

[Wolf]

So, am I nuts?

Yes! But so are most of us.
Welcome to the fold, and ask questions when you have them. It would be better to post this in the TechTalk forum, as the gallery is just for pictures. This way you would get more feedback on your endeavor.

My first one was a little bigger:



Later,
Wolf

[kmibb]

Ron E.'s Krystals use very similar drivers don't they? Maybe you could use his crossover in a TL?

Link: http://techtalk.parts-express.com/sh...d.php?t=216691

[nobby]

Ron E.'s Krystals use very similar drivers don't they? Maybe you could use his crossover in a TL?

Link: http://techtalk.parts-express.com/sh...d.php?t=216691

Wow, thanks for the link. Somehow in my searches I hadn't come across this design. It is indeed the same drivers.

[christianb]

Mine was a little ambitious.

http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/atta...8&d=1119319654

6'2" arrays with ten JBL Vifa buyouts and a single Fountek JP2.0. Crossover was the DCX2496 fed into a Panasonic XR-25 digital receiver using the 6 channel inputs. Sounded sick for $300 in parts for the speakers.

[kmibb]

Mine was a little ambitious.

http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/atta...8&d=1119319654

6'2" arrays with ten JBL Vifa buyouts and a single Fountek JP2.0. Crossover was the DCX2496 fed into a Panasonic XR-25 digital receiver using the 6 channel inputs. Sounded sick for $300 in parts for the speakers.

Both of you aren't even close to most ambitious.

http://techtalk.parts-express.com/sh...d.php?t=217982

Not even in the same league.

[SteveB123]

Both of you aren't even close to most ambitious.

http://techtalk.parts-express.com/sh...d.php?t=217982

Not even in the same league.

All that is missing is the actual build.

[nobby]

OK, finally have a first attempt at a crossover. The HP and LP slopes are both 4th order. What responses from PCD would be helpful to post? I am interested on input on what I might improve.
Thanks!