One of the things on my bucket list has always been to build my own subwoofer. I'm a simple man.
It's a little intimidating to post here when guys like mojave measure their subwoofers in horsepower instead of watts:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=65300.0But I thought I'd share a few pictures from my recent build:
http://pix01.com/yt%400JvUThe first two pictures show the subwoofer at various stages during the build, and the final one shows the finished product resting under my screen.
It's a birch plywood box, trimmed with oak, with a maple butcher-block top. There's a single 12" driver on the bottom, powered by a power amplifier (2 channels of a 7 channel amplifier hooked to the dual-voice coil driver). It weighs about 60 pounds.
I'm really happy with the sound. I've always liked sealed subwoofers for music. With mojave's help, I have Media Center applying a Linkwitz (DSP Studio > Parametric Equalizer) to extend the bass response of the sealed box for the frequencies below about 35 Hz.
A little bit of trivia is that the big looking cabinet behind the finished subwoofer is
Jesse Ventura's old stereo cabinet.
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