Operation: Big speakers little holes

[PX8]

Hey Brad I'm going to start another thread but till then I wanted to ask a question related to my up and coming man cave!!!!

I'm going to buy 4 Polk Audio MC60s. Only problem is I don't see any specs on airspace. Much like you if I'm going to do it I want to do it right. My thoughts on mounting them is actually to take some osb and mount it in between the ceiling and the wall to get the speakers pointing downward. Like this / in the back and \ in the front. However, if you think it would just be better to mount them in the wall that fine too, but I thought hey I'll do something a little different. Worse Imagining?

 

[Etroze86]

I know I'm not Brad but I know he has a ton going on right now and will take a bit to answer you.
Ceiling speakers are inherently made to be ran infinite baffle like the ones in a car door so no need for an enclosure.
So what are your goals? Movies? Music? both? and do you want room to add more power down the road?
If you are into DIY what I would suggest is a set of these as it will give you better speaker sensitivity aka louder on less wattage and down the road you can add more power safely and not worry about harming the speakers.
Volt-6 Coaxial Speaker DIY Sound Group
Hope this gives you a little help.

 

[PX8]

Makes sense. I just got finished IMing my neighbor and he told me I could have his older receiver. It's a VSX-31. Sweet. Sports and Movies is what I'm going for. I always get in trouble when I crank up movies in the house, so it's off to the cave with me. I was going to use a STR-DE575 because it was also going to be free, but I was already look at receivers, because the STR doesn't have HDMI. It use to kill me to no end when I would watch movies and the words and lips were off. I still have to come up with the most important piece, the center channel. Based on that receiver what do you think?

 

[BradKnob]

^^^ he's right. Those speakers are made to run in open airspace. I'd just mount them in the wall or ceiling.

Free stuff is the best stuff!! Most of the time. What kind of budget u have for a center channel? Parts express has a nice selection of budget friendly options. I've heard good things about the pioneer Andrew jones line. Maybe check those out.

 

[Etroze86]

Love love love my Pioneer Andrew Jones, that being said most of the DIY community tends to say you can build a better center channel for less, the towers nope they are better than what you can build for the money period.

 

[dengland]

I know I'm not Brad but I know he has a ton going on right now and will take a bit to answer you.

Brad - Life any calmer? Been awhile since you posted. Been able to devote any time to your set up?

 

[BradKnob]

Brad - Life any calmer? Been awhile since you posted. Been able to devote any time to your set up?

Well, I'm not working 7 days/week any more but I had a few side projects to get out the way and between that and the wife not being able to much on her own at the moment, the fuel pump burning up in her car, and trying to transform a "storage room" into a nursery, I've had next to no time spend on the truck. I've actually just been enjoying it in the mean time.

Not being able to have zero audio projects going on, I'm whipping up a lil set of desk top speakers for my desk at work. I'll post wm up when I'm done.

 

[DavidRam]

When's she due?

 

[BradKnob]

In about 4 weeks

 

[DavidRam]

In about 4 weeks

Holy **** cakes time flies!!! Cool, man! Your world's about to change!

 

[BradKnob]

Yep, been a helluva a journey just to get to this point. I'm ready to meet who's been reaking all this havoc in there.

 

[dengland]

Yep, been a helluva a journey just to get to this point. I'm ready to meet who's been reaking all this havoc in there.

Congratulations. Be sure to post some baby pics. We want to see how that project turns out too.

My little girl hit 20 earlier this month. That was 20 years. Time will fly!

 

[BradKnob]

Congratulations. Be sure to post some baby pics. We want to see how that project turns out too.



My little girl hit 20 earlier this month. That was 20 years. Time will fly!

Thanks bud.... Will certainly share my pride and joy with the RAM family.


Here's a sneak peak at my desktop project... Mmmm shiny!

 

[DavidRam]

That's nice, that's shiney, what is that?

 

[BradKnob]

They took our TV privileges away at work (1st world problems) so I'm building a little set of desk top speakers using a set of 3" tang band full range drivers in a 2 channel setup. Nothing crazy. Just a small cheapish project to help water down the Pinterest projects that have been consuming my life lately

 

[DavidRam]

They took our TV privileges away at work (1st world problems) so I'm building a little set of desk top speakers using a set of 3" tang band full range drivers in a 2 channel setup. Nothing crazy. Just a small cheapish project to help water down the Pinterest projects that have been consuming my life lately

Looks cool! Don't forget to do a full sound deadening application to your desk , though.

 

[BradKnob]

Looks cool! Don't forget to do a full sound deadening application to your desk , though.

Lol.... Yea ummm about that....



I do have some vibration isolating feet on the way. That count?

 

[DavidRam]

Lol.... Yea ummm about that....



I do have some vibration isolating feet on the way. That count?

Those are so cool! Where did you get those metal hershey kisses??


Edit: Never mind I found their ebay store.

 

[BradKnob]

Ha! Google Hi-Fi isolating spikes. These I found on eBay.

 

[robo99]

Congrats on all the upcoming new additions, especially the 2 legged one.