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Are Dayton components high quality or are there better ones?
I am interested in possibly building bookshelf speakers and a sub, most of the places I have looked have cheaper parts than Dayton stuff but I am worried about the quality. What sort of brands seem to be the best?
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Dayton is very good but it's all relative to your budget and goals. The Dayton Reference line are some the best you can get for money and compare pretty well with a lot of stuff costing much more, the
Modula MT would be something that competes with ~$2000+ speakers. The Dayton Classic is nice entry level stuff that is well known and easy to work with. Probably the best example would the the TriTrix, thats probably more like a $400-$500 speaker.
Here is my variant of the TriTrix MT ported two way.
There are lots of other brands / manufactures to check out; Vifa, Seas, Tang Band all make very nice drivers.
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Operandi, you're the man, thanks for all the helpful info. Polks are probably going to be kept for garage or something just because I picked them up so cheap. Sending them back and taking a 15% restocking fee will make it a pointless return. I'll get around $65 back, is that even worth returning those for?
As far as progress, so far I've received some amp parts, still waiting on others. The Zaph components are very attractive, price is decent as well.
Need amp enclosure ideas and I really gotta figure out what route to take with the sub.
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Yeah the 15% restocking fee hurts a bit, up to you if you want to keep them or send them back.
If you have the room the ZA5.2 is probably one better designs you could build and pre-made crossover makes it pretty simple. If you are for sure building the sub build the sealed version. The 8" Dayton RS would probably be plenty, its a very serious sub. My ported 12" is complete and total overkill, but thats almost half the reason I did it
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I haven't built any electronics yet but there are some guys on the both the HT Guide and PE forums that have built some amps. I would like to give it a shot at some point, are you going to document your build here?