[digitalmind]

I've been planning to build a pair of speakers for a while now, and have finally decided on a design. It'll be back loaded horn / bass reflex hybrid sporting a Fostex FE126E driver. The design is from the recommended enclosure list on www.fostex.com. So in a nutshell: nothing can go wrong. Now if only I believed that myself.

Here's the datasheet on the driver:
http://www.fostexinternational.com/d...pdf/fe126e.pdf

Here's the original recommended enclosure:
http://www.fostexinternational.com/d...e126e_encl.pdf

I drew it in Sketchup as an aid during building, and just to give an impression on how it'll look. I placed it on a 27cm high stand, with 3cm spikes. I figure this will give the optimum height, though ofcourse I won't know untill the speaker has been built. If it may seem odd placing a horn higher than ground -- others have done it with this enclosure and commented positively on it. Either way, that's not certain yet, though in two tone colors it'd look pretty neat.

I expect to start building in a week or two, once I have all the parts together. The Sketchup drawings have Cherry wood veneer, though that can change of course.

If you want the Sketchup file, you can grab it here: http://www.iamrik.com/dump/fe126e/fe126e.skp

Any tips or comments are most welcome.

 

[phergus_25]

NOOOO!
I would suggest A126s, much better frequency response, I am getting down to 50 hz flat, and 45 with like - 6 db

link to pic in sig

heres a thread: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showt...=&pagenumber=1

 

[digitalmind]

Ah good, more reading material.

Thanks for the tip, will most definitely look into it.

 

[digitalmind]

I knew someone on this board built them -- but forgot who it was. Guess that clears it up.

I really like the things I could with those regarding design, but I'm a bit afraid of them being rear ported. One will have to be placed near a corner, whereas the other will be placed in front of a flat wall. Would this give trouble with rear opening horns? I can imagine them having a hefty bass increase by being rear ported.

 

[phergus_25]

Well the rear facing mouth isnt really a problem, I haev them in a Semi corner loaded situation, really wall loaded, which they were designed for, but pieces of furnature on each side to give a psudo wall

 

[hugz]

I've heard that speaker cabinet before and found it to be really impressive. bass isn't great, but otherwise its a really pleasing speaker

the one that i heard was also lifted off the ground, and the owner said it sounds much better that way