DIY Audio & Video

FAQs, Tutorials, and Calculators for
Speaker Boxes, Crossovers, Filters, Wiring and more

Tutorials/FAQs

Wiring FAQ - Anything to do with wiring speakers & amps.
Home Theater FAQ - What separates home theater from the rest.
Basic DIY Speaker FAQ - Things to consider before doing anything.
Box Construction FAQ - What is involved in the box construction.
MDF FAQ - Everything you need to know about building boxes with MDF.
Crossover FAQ - All the steps of making a crossover.
Sound FAQ - Basic information on common terms and sound properties.

Circuit & Box Design

Box Designer - calculate box volumes and port sizes.
- Help for Designing Speaker Boxes
2-way Crossover Designer - design many types of crossovers 1st-6th order.
- Help for Designing Crossovers
3-way APC Crossover Designer - design a first order 3 way APC crossover.
- Help for Designing 3-way Crossovers
Series Notch Filter - design a LCR filter to remove that response spike.
- Help for Designing a Series Notch Filter
Parallel Notch Filter - design a parallel trap filter to remove broader peaks.
- Help for Designing a Parallel Notch Filter
Driver Attenuation Circuit - design a L-Pad to decrease driver sensitivity.
- Help in designing a L-Pad (Driver Attenuation Circuit)
Impedance Equalization Circuit - design a Impedance Equalization Circuit to match driver resistance.
- Help in designing a Impedance Equalization Circuit
Contour Network - design a Contour Network to correct drivers with a rising response curve.
- Help for Designing a Contour Network
Inductor Designer - Wind your own inductor for a low resistance crossover network.
- Help for Winding your own Inductor

Home Wiring & Home Automation - Future Wiring/Structured Wiring

Structured Wiring Overview - How to future wire your home.
Types of Wires - Pics and descriptions of the different types of wires you may run.
Structured Wiring Plan - Creating a wiring plan for your home.
Wire Conversions - Information on Converting/Splitting/Combining Wires.
Sample Projects - Some sample projects that should help you with your plan.
Wiring Project Parts Guide - What you will need for both wiring and finishing work.
How to Wire Your Home - What you need to run the wires correctly and safely.
Home Theater Setup - Speaker placement, entertainment centers, and audio distribution.
Terminating Wall Plates - How to terminate the wires at your outlets or speakers.
The Wiring Panel - The central location that all wires should run to.
Alarm Wiring - Information on wiring an alarm system.
Home Automation - X10 and other home automation ideas.
Wiring an Existing Home - How to run wires through walls after your home is built.

Manufacturer Audio/Video Links

Tables

1st, 2nd, and 3rd order Butterworth crossover tables using only E24 components.

Basics

Definition of Terms - What all the letters used in the formulas mean.
Metric/Standard Conversions - for calculating box volumes.

Electronics

Basic Electronics - Wiring electrical components in parallel and series.
Resistors, Capacitors, & Inductors - The varioius types and what you need to know about them.
Resistor & Other Component Color Codes - What all those colored stripes mean.



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Projects

NHT1259 - Home Audio Projects using this 12" woofer from NHT.
Home Projects - Other Speaker and Electronics Home Projects.
My Car Project - Other Speaker and Electronics Home Projects.

Some Other FAQs

Where to Get the Parts

Madisound for speaker components by Accuton, Audax, Aurasound, Descant, Dynaudio Repair Parts, Eminence, Eton, Foster, Fostex, Fountek, Hi-Vi Research, Isodynamic, LPG, Morel, Mundorf, NHT, Peerless, PHY-HP, Scan-speak, Seas, Silver Flute, Skaaning, Sonicraft, and Vifa and other parts and accessories.
Solen for speaker components by ATC, Audax, Audio Technology, Aura, CSS, Eton, Final Link, Fostex, Fountek, Hemp Acoustics, Hi-Vi Research, Illusion Audio, LCY, LPG, Max Fidelity, Morel, Peerless, PHY-HP, Raal, RCF, ScanSpeak, Seas, Silver Flute, Vifa, and Vistation and other parts and accessories.
Speaker Driver Manufacturers - part of the A/V List.

Miscellaneous

LaLena.com Home Page - Check out what else this site has to offer, including some cool online games.

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DIY Audio & Video

FAQs, Tutorials, and Calculators forSpeaker Boxes, Crossovers, Filters, Wiring and more

FAQs, Tutorials, and Calculators for
Speaker Boxes, Crossovers, Filters, Wiring and more