IMPROVING Home Theater Speakers w/ 5" Dayton Audio Mids & Custom Homemade Speaker Tower Projects

Time to get busy building and installing new speakers!! Today we tackle he DIY Home Theater courtesy of Parts Express! These 5ft towers are loaded up with 20 of their most budget friendly drivers from the infamous buyout section. So... with these new upgrades in full effect, this hifi setup is just what the doctor ordered. Dayton Audio to the rescue!!! :D Visit Parts Express w/ EXO's Special Coupon!!! Code Name: "EXOten" https://goo.gl/bKjBKS EDIT: Code is Actually 10 Dollars Off :P Watch the 20 Minute BONUS VIDEO!    • DIY Home Theater Towers: UPGRADING to Bett...   Follow Me Here :)   / exocontralto     / exocontralto     / exocontralto      / exocontralto   Ratchet Crimp Tool Link https://www.parts-express.com/ratchet... ORDER OF BUSINESS: Choosing The Best Speakers For The Money Removing Mismatched 5.25" Mid Ranges Etching Perfect Circles w/ Helpful Homemade Trick Cutting & Painting Custom MDF Speaker Rings Plotting Screw Holes For Mounting New Drivers Rewiring Cabinet w/ Bigger Sized Wires (22 AWG to 16 AWG --16 AWG to 14 AWG) Sanding Tweeter Housings For Closer Fitment Test Fitting Tweeters w/ The Flat Edge Crimping Insulated Terminals w/ Ratchet Crimp Sharing Discount Code & Ratcheting Crimper Heat Shrinking The Wire Connectors Explaining Series Pairs & Parallel Wiring Changing to Gold Plated Binding Posts Explaining Active Amplifier Setup Trying The Opposite Tower Placement Moving Towers Back To Original Position Going For a 158 Decibel BASS CRUISE! Buying New Stainless Steel Hardware Making Rings Smaller by 1/4 inch Attaching Speaker Rings w/ PL 8x Installing The Upgraded Drivers Filling Stripped Out Holes w/ Woodglue & Wood Chips Sealing Subwoofer Lip w/ Foam Gasket Weatherstripping Connecting The Subwoofers Measuring Ohms & Double Checking Polarity TESTING SOUND Quality & Acoustics! Mid Ranges: 12 Dayton Audio DS135-8 5" Designer Series Woofer Speakers Tweeters: 4 Peerless 1" Silk Dome Neodymium Tweeters w/ Waveguide Subs 4 12" Coated Paper Cone Woofers w/ Foam Surround Model Numbers: DS135-8, BC25SC08-04 (formerly vifa), TC-1244 Music By: YouTube Library licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 THE ORIGINAL Blurb (from 2015) These "do it yourself" cabinets were originally designed as passive bipole speakers; when 2 sets of drivers are mounted opposite one another, whose frequencies are played IN PHASE with one another (unlike dipole enclosures which play out of phase) But plans changed, so we made this design. Going the floor standing route also freed up having to make a stand, or multiple stands. So in the end, we chose a combination of sealed and ported chambers for optimum sound quality. Porting to the front also allowed us to locate the speaker against a wall. Additional bracing and acoustic foams was added to prevent the ports from having unwanted high frequency resonance, like that annoying echo we all dislike. Especially bass frequencies. The double baffle also helped with this. And with our 4 chamber setup, each partition doubled with mdf as braces - making the box extremely inert, and fully dampened. Each is driver crossed over on a Behringer DCX2496 active crossover, and the xover points change according to how I feel that day :D The listening room is well, less than perfect - but still a good space for playing demo trailers, movies and music. However, during testing, distinguished standing waves were noticed in 3 places throughout the area. These types of issues, comb filtering especially, are the greatest and most difficult problems small rooms encounter. Thus, it's very smart to have plans built around the specific geometry of a room. That's the only way to build a high end home audio cabinet, after all, rooms affect sound even more than speakers do! Stay tuned this week as we learn how to build custom DIY speaker grills with neodymium magnets! The grill will help keep her clean. Hope you enjoyed the Tutorial :D Original Tools Used: 2 Wood Clamps, Jig Saw, Table Saw, Circular Saw, Plunge Router & Bits, Palm Sander, Orbital Sander, Air Compressor, Heavy Duty Stapler, Drill Original Supplies Used: Titebond 3 Wood Glue Spax Wood Screws Bondo Body Filler Natural Wood Filler Bondo Short Stand Fiberglass 80 / 150 / 220 Grit Sandpaper 3m Super 77 Spray Glue Adhesive Polyfill Roll Mat & Acoustic Foam Killz Original Primer (no pigment) High Gloss Piano Black Paint (Oil Based) Rustoleum Home Accents Stone Texture (fleckstone) 14AWG & 12AWG Speaker Wire Foam Tape, Staples & Wire Ties Acoustic treatment will be added soon! Things like bass traps ect. EXOcontralto Bassheads Unite 2018