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Hello everyone. I had an old ikea cube storage shelf unit in the corner of my living room, not doing much and looking rather bland. I decided to build a stereo console out of it! I integrated a subwoofer into it some time ago - n old alpine 12” I had in a car long since sold - powered by a Dayton 70 watt plate amp. I long for more power and my new drivers are running about 94db sensitivity, so I ordered a new Dayton 250 watt to keep up with the rest.
I had some old Silver Flute 8s in the garage from a previous project and decided to reuse them for this. Additionally, I’ll be running the Dayton pt2c-8 planar tweeters with a little creativity in their installation. The woofers will occupy the upper corner compartments and the tweeters are standing off on recycled dorm-room lamps with custom baffles. I’m rather proud of the way it’s turning out and am close to firing it up.
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I began by adding some legs from Lowe’s, stained walnut for some contrast. Pictured is the cabinet with the sub and legs installed.
The tweeter baffles are constructed of 1x4 pine planks, cut at a 45 and secured without fasteners. I like this joinery process: cut your 45s, butt the pieces end-to-end, tape them, glue gratuitously, fold together and secure. Drilled a hole for the lamp rod to pass through and a corresponding notch for the rod to screw into the baffle tops. Routed the faces, sanded, primed, painted gloss red and polyed.
The woofer baffles are constructed of 3/4” ply with 1/2” mdf for the side and rear (the cabinet forms the upper, lower and remaining side walls). Routed the corners, routed a hole with my circle jig, drilled all the pocket holes and assembled. Caulked gratuitously. 3x7” ports, about 0.8 ft^3 net internal volume which should provide a beefy f3 of 50 hz.
Crossovers are off-the-shelf Dayton 3000 hz units. The wiring enters the cabinet at a terminal cup and the tweeter pillars attach through another.
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I’ll post some more pics when I fire it up.
I had some old Silver Flute 8s in the garage from a previous project and decided to reuse them for this. Additionally, I’ll be running the Dayton pt2c-8 planar tweeters with a little creativity in their installation. The woofers will occupy the upper corner compartments and the tweeters are standing off on recycled dorm-room lamps with custom baffles. I’m rather proud of the way it’s turning out and am close to firing it up.
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I began by adding some legs from Lowe’s, stained walnut for some contrast. Pictured is the cabinet with the sub and legs installed.
The tweeter baffles are constructed of 1x4 pine planks, cut at a 45 and secured without fasteners. I like this joinery process: cut your 45s, butt the pieces end-to-end, tape them, glue gratuitously, fold together and secure. Drilled a hole for the lamp rod to pass through and a corresponding notch for the rod to screw into the baffle tops. Routed the faces, sanded, primed, painted gloss red and polyed.
The woofer baffles are constructed of 3/4” ply with 1/2” mdf for the side and rear (the cabinet forms the upper, lower and remaining side walls). Routed the corners, routed a hole with my circle jig, drilled all the pocket holes and assembled. Caulked gratuitously. 3x7” ports, about 0.8 ft^3 net internal volume which should provide a beefy f3 of 50 hz.
Crossovers are off-the-shelf Dayton 3000 hz units. The wiring enters the cabinet at a terminal cup and the tweeter pillars attach through another.
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I’ll post some more pics when I fire it up.
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