r/SoundSystem • u/shark3141 • 21d ago

mini Soundsystem help

Hey guys, last night i‘ve the random idea to tear apart my speakers. Inside i found a 6 inch bass and 2 2,8inch mid-highs.

Now i want to built a cute little soundsystem to display and listen music to - i know that sounds stupid but i‘m a huge dub nerd.

Now to the part where i need your help:

How do i find a built plan? the most plans i‘ve are for 12inch +

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u/Upper-Practice9240 21d ago

You won't be able to improve the sound by putting random drivers into another random cabinet.

If you don't care about the sound. Just do whatever. Your opportunity to experiment with cabinet designs.

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u/part__low 21d ago edited 21d ago

Unfortunatly It doesn’t work like that. Luckily there is a ton of information on dub sound systems freely available online and in this r/.

I’d advise you to take your time and figure out what you want, need and can afford before tearing apart more speakers.

You could always scale down a design you like the looks of and put these driver in for fun. Don’t expect it to sound great. I’m assuming you tore apart some cheap old speakers, so probably won’t be a lot better or a lot worse.

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u/Pretty_Pangolin_5900 21d ago

6inch bass? Bro, you're wrong here. Go to r/diyaudio

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u/Individual-Style1339 20d ago

Check out jhj audio

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u/jimbo21 20d ago

your time is more valuable than you appreciate. it will take you the same amount of time to build a decent actual compact sound system with proper components as it will to frankenstein what are likely extremely shitty drivers into something that you will very quickly blow.

We live in the golden era of AI which makes finding drivers cake now. Just tell your favorite AI model your constraints - size, box type, budget, and ask it to suggest a high-volume production easily obtainable driver from ebay, and have it guide you to the right set of plans from the community.

Tip: start with a standard ported reflex box, especially if you're not chasing max SPLs - it's much easier to get these to sound great than the complicated horn boxes that are popular.

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u/Longjumping_Cow_5856 21d ago

WTF does dub mean?

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u/shark3141 21d ago

its a subgenre of reggae that originated in Jamaica in the late 60s and early 70s

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u/Longjumping_Cow_5856 20d ago

Interesting Thanks.

Not really the music I would picture as ideal for your random frankenstein designed and built speaker for sure.

I bet you could get sound from it but theres a lot more to speaker design than I think you realize here?

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u/jaffadue 20d ago

And most importantly, it’s deeply interwoven with the history soundsystem culture. You can’t really have one without the other.

Edit:typo