Reciever-> Amp?-> Speakers

[skier]

well, i'm not buying anything 'till the very end of the semester, so it can be sent home and i'll actually receive it, and what do you have in mind for cabinets?

[martini161]

MDF or some kind of hardwood, anything but plywood. the terminals you have on those also look super lossy

[skier]

MDF or some kind of hardwood, anything but plywood. the terminals you have on those also look super lossy

only parts that are plywood are my handmade tweeter box(which i more or less threw together) and the pressed wood faces for the boxes with 10's

and, the terminals on the receiver?

[martini161]

MDF or some kind of hardwood, anything but plywood. the terminals you have on those also look super lossy

only parts that are plywood are my handmade tweeter box(which i more or less threw together) and the pressed wood faces for the boxes with 10's

and, the terminals on the receiver?

no on the speakers

[skier]

got the speakers in and the crossover soldered up and screwed in, what can i do for the terminals on the speaker box? what provides the best contacts? or would just contact cleaner do the trick

[Skippman]

You can usually find banana plug style terminals at Radio Shack for pretty reasonable prices. They have a spade connecter on the inside, so you'd solder the wire to a spade and connect that to the terminals, or you could solder them direct to the spade's I suppose. Banana plugs are widely accepted to be the standard speaker internconnect.

[skier]

Old Crossover(when i say old, i mean 1975) don't worry about the solder, i was young, and stupid, lol


new 200W handling beast:

[Skippman]

Welcome to the future.

[skier]

just a little update: my parents got a new bed frame, and its really big, so it came in big boxes with lots of styrofoam, AND 5/8" Particle Board! not sure why, but i wondered was it wide enough(got two pieces that were about 5' 10" long, and a little over a foot wide) got out the tape measure, and voila it's about an inch wider than i needed, so i took the speaker downstairs, and did the following:

few swings of a rubber mallet later..


ended up going with a divider since i had plenty of wood and like to use pounding bass



i have to make the holes for the speakers to set into now

[Skippman]

just a little update: my parents got a new bed frame, and its really big, so it came in big boxes with lots of styrofoam, AND 5/8" Particle Board! not sure why, but i wondered was it wide enough(got two pieces that were about 5' 10" long, and a little over a foot wide) got out the tape measure, and voila it's about an inch wider than i needed, so i took the speaker downstairs, and did the following:

few swings of a rubber mallet later..


ended up going with a divider since i had plenty of wood and like to use pounding bass



i have to make the holes for the speakers to set into now

NOW you're talking! Good on ya brother!

[skier]

The reason the hole is so funny shaped:

[skier]

put the woofer in and tried it out, there's a LOT of air getting out from around where the speaker screws to the particle board, but no air at all gets past that partition into the bay with the 6 1/5 and tweeter, it also comes out like a jet from this little hole the old crossover used in the back for a frequency knob, which surprised me since the hole is covered up by the new crossover!

(the crossover is slightly raised)