home made speakers using Dayton Sound Exciters

A demonstration of how a set of Dayton Sound exciters can be used to create a set of Hi-Fi loud speakers. These were created using the following materials: One pair of Dayton Sound Exciters ( Parts Express), Two pieces of aluminum .030"thk. x 12"w x 12"h (hobby shop), Paper foam paper board 12" x12" x 1/4thk. (craft shop), 500ohm. speaker of unknown manufacturer for the very high frequency (electronic surplus), Super glue used to adhere .500 ohm. speaker to front and also to adhere the tripod mounts. The amplifier is a 35wpc. KT88 push pull, CD is Kenwood 5 disc, Subwoofer is a Radio Shack 12" passive. The resulting sound is better than some very expensive bookshelf speakers that I have heard. Quite simply IMPRESSIVE !!!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hifi
• tube audio
• hi end audio
• studio
• stereo
• music
• tube amp
• speakers
• home made

[johammbass]

Bull

[smokinjoeh2750]

You really know your stuff. Hopefully one day I can get to your level of expertise? Very intelligently spoken as well....Are you mad or something??? Sorry my tutorial upsets you so badly?

[bollecke]

Hi, very interesting this exciters and your way to use them! I could imaginge to try this out.

But please, could you tell me on which album i can find this interpretation of Stephen Stills "The Ballad Of Hollis Brown"?

BR and thank you!

[smokinjoeh2750]

Stills Alone is the album playing.

Thanks Smokin Joe !!!

[dreamdiction]

Really Amazing. I'd be interested to hear it without the sub-woofer and without the tweeters. Those Dayton Exciters seem to work incredibly well.

[woodrat2296]

High Fidelity? Not. Fail.

[DJT32a]

How many watts do you have to each? Very COOL!!! Would work great in my small apartment!!!

[alj1653]

Wow!! This is Awesome!!!!

[audiophiliac]

@ELECTECHNUT I agree.. Magnepan 1.6 :)

[PA5cAl1]

They sound overly bright. It's impressive for the materials tho but i could not listen to that sort of speakers for a whole day.

[mikebravopapa]

Do you have any type of adhesive bonding the aluminum with the foam panel? All you mentioned was the tape. It seems like the two pieces would vibrate against each other causing some nasty distortion? I just received mine in the mail today and you seem to have the best results I have seen so far, I'd like to replicate your setup as closely as possible. Thanks!

[49kasey]

@smokinjoeh2750 I've heard some very high quality audio demos on youtube, including this one. Sony has been making high quality microphones since at least as far back as the early 1960's so it doesn't surprise me that their camcorders are capable of it. What you've done here is pretty impressive. They definitely remind me of planar speakers, which is amazing.

[JamikKim27]

Wow, nice. Those "tweeters" I think would get annoying after a while, didn't sound too good as you went closer to them. The sound exciters though, pretty good for the mid-range for $17. I don't think I could look at squares of Alu though, I'd use these for a novelty "hide the sound source" thing ;-)