Music Calculator

Imagine this scenario: You’ve got a hollow tube that you’d like to make sing at some frequency. Seems like simple geometry but then again, air … Read more

What this means is that before you hear the sound well, you feel it in your chest. Because of the geometry of the room, low-frequency … Read more

Build a speaker, set it inside its cabinet and hear how boring it is. Move it out onto shelf and hear how nice it’s now. … Read more

Building a horn really does involve math. If you’re thinking this is simply a matter of cutting wood in trumpet form, it’s not. It involves … Read more

A horn loudspeaker is essentially a piece of woodworking and acoustic engineering. A design goal are to achieve some combination of control and efficiency while … Read more

All the pieces is in place: You’ve cut the wood, measured out the horn and checked the seams, but when you hit your driver, what’s … Read more

Resonance happens when a speaker cabinet vibrate along with low frequencies. Perhaps you’ve built what appears to be a perfect-looking box, and yet one of … Read more

More times than you might guess, you design a perfect-looking speaker cabinet on paper, but once mounted with drivers, sound has an odd ring or … Read more

You made the panels exactly right. They fit together tightly. It’s finished with a nice smooth surface. And you installed the driver with great care. … Read more

The geometry is what matters most; there are no tight tolerances for making a horn loader, just geometry control. If you make it conical with … Read more

The cabinet is built. The braces were glued on. The wood was sealed. Now the driver are mounted perfectly symmetrical to the enclosure. It’s a … Read more

Get the air flowing properly in your subwoofer and it sound good. But don’t get caught up with just box size and driver specifications. The … Read more

Sometimes you get everything just right building a subwoofer box only to find that it sound like mud and booms. More often than not, it’s … Read more

You’ve built yourself a nice little box with a tight cabinet and smooth finish. You put driver to it flush and fire up a track. … Read more

Congratulations. You’ve made a tube amp, installed all the wiring properly, biased it just right. It sounds good; warm and actualy as you hoped. You … Read more