DIY subwoofer gallery

 

Creator Image link Driver Description
Paul Spencer Stryke AV12 Stryke AV12 A piano gloss curved vented/sealed dual mode design.
Richard Neuendorf HE15 Stryke HE15 A large PR sub with a novel shape for corner placement.
Jeff Mills Dayton Titanic MkII DVC Dayton Titanic MKII DVC 12" A sealed furniture grade table sub.
Eris Eash EBS Stryke AV15x2 Stryke AV15 x 2 A massive dual 15" EBS earthquake maker
Michael Budget 8" venom Response Venom 8" A small vented sun on a AUD $80 budget!
Paul Hilgeman W dipolel woofer Peerless 12" CC A compact dual 12" W frame dipole sub
Paul Fluet EBS tempest Adire Tempest 15" The refridgerator - EBS (extended bass shelf) sub
Darren Thomas Tempest furniture Adire Tempest 15" A well finished furniture grade sub.
JD Haesloop 18" XBL beast RE Audio XXX 18" A monster vented 18" sub with XBL motor & 33mm xmax
David Poehlman Shiva furniture Adire Shiva MkII 12" A medium sized furniture grade Shiva sub.

If you would like to get your sub online ...

 

If you have a sub that is special, unique or different in some way, and would like it published online, feel free to contact me. I'm now restricting further additions to the gallery to:

subs of an exotic nature - ie. horns, dipoles, infinite baffle

subs with clever construction, including features like a special finish or curves and unusual shapes

subs with drivers that are not as often displayed on the net, in particular I would like to see some Stryke / AE subs

Note: please provide images of your sub!

I want this to be visual - if you don't have images then at least provide scanned sketches with dimensions or a cad rendering.

Please submit text in this format:

Project title: (name of the sub - eg. Matts Monsoon Sub)

Creator: Matt Mathews
Creator:Location: Melbourne, Australia
Alignment: EBS
Net volume: 140L
Alignment details: vent 150mm diameter x 1050mm length - 20 Hz tuning
Anechoic F3: 16 Hz
Weight: 75kg
Size: 1200mm high x 350mm wide x 500mm deep
Construction: 19mm MDF braced with a 19mm MDF matrix; 25mm open cell foam lining
Finish: Jarrah veneer finished with estapol high gloss - 3 coats applied
Driver: Stryke Audio AV12
Processor: DIY subwoofer processor kit (XYZ kitsupplied from ABC audio) with 4th order low pass filter, 6th order rumble filter, 3 band parametric eq and a gain of +/- 12 db
Amplifier: Crown (model number) - 500 watts RMS into 4 ohms
Total cost: AUD $2100
Cost breakdown:  
Driver: $400 (including shipping, insurance, etc if required)
Amplifier: >$900- secondhand on ebay
Processor: $100
Enclosure: $100
Finishing: $250
Miscellaneous: $100 (glue, screws, damping material, hardware, internal cables)
Accessories: $150 (brass feet, grilles, extra bits) external cables, interconnects)
Cables: $100 (1.5m interconnect, 10m speaker cable @ $5/m)

Guidelines

Project Summary:

Put it all in a nutshell - all that you want to say about your sub compressed into a single paragraph, so that if someone is just skimming through quickly they can get the general idea

Introduction:

* your goals - music / home theatre, what do you want the system to achieve - lots of SPL, extra depth for music at "normal volume" ...

* your listening room - dimensions & construction (eg. living room, timber floor with light plasterboard wall construction, 4 x 6 x 1.4m)

* type of music / movies you listen to / watch

Design

* how did you choose the alignment? (simulation, advice received, etc - eg "I followed the 85L vented alignment shown on the Stryke Audio website as I wanted the 20 Hz extension for movies but the EBS was too big)

* other options you considered (if any)

Measurements / Simulations (if available)

* you might like to show simulation results that you used in the design and give some comments (eg. I liked the 55L sealed alignment as the group delay shown on the chart was superior)

* measurements - frequency response etc

Construction

* you might like to describe how you built it if the construction is novel or unconventional

* construction tips - you might like to show a few tricks that you learnt, or mistakes that you made and how to avoid them

Other stuff

If you have anything else that hasn't been covered here ...

Conclusion

* how does it sound?

* is there anything you would do differently having gained hindsight?

Suggested images:

(please send jpg or gif format)

1. finished subwoofer - front, rear

2. construction images - showing significant parts of the construction process as well as key features such as a novel bracing method

3. details - clever features or quirks - images to show tips on how to resolve particular problems; images highlighting any part of your sub that you think is worth focusing on

4. measured charts (frequency response etc) or simulations performed (if possible raw data may be preferable so I can present in excel, but if you use a program that can't output raw data then you could send a printed screenshot).

5. scanned sketches or CAD plans (if you have CAD files, I can receive AutoCAD 2000 *.dwg or *dxf files)