Zinsky

Interesting thread, although I would never do this today, I did have a run in with these exact people when I was about 18. I was working at circuit city at the time selling home audio, so I had a small clue of what looking at. Me and 3 friends were driving down the road when 2 guys in a white van started yelling at us that they had stolen speaker equipment and they wanted to sell it. Growing up in New Jersey, this was music to our ears. Anyway, they opened the back of the van and had tons of speaker equipment saying it was stolen, very expensive to purchase retail, and very cheap for us. (about $200 bucks for 5 speakers and a sub). I ask them to open the box so I could make sure I was purchasing speakers, they declined and tried to talk us out of it. We had a quick huddle and decided they were trying to rip us off. My friends (who were much much larger then the two 150lb salesmen) stood in front of the driver and passenger door, not letting them in. I told them that I am opening 1 box, if they were speakers then they had a sale, if they werent then they were going to get a couple punches in the face. They were very nervous. I opened one of the "main speakers" which had a 5 foot box and rather heavy. There was a wooden box with a car speaker installed in it!!! it wasn't even a quality speaker, it looked like it was out of a sub $15k american car from 1994. Paper cone and paper "horn" tweeter. Anyway my large friends had a field day with them. Just thought you guys would like to hear that they got what they deserved.

holy shit, I was not expecting such informative responses. Awesome forum guys! thank you very much for your posts, I will do some more research based on your posts, and get back to you with more questions. Hopefully I won't be too active, I fear I will end up spending too much on equipment if I kickstart my audio obsession from my younger days lol

did you read what I said you illiterate ****? despite the fact that I always think I can better then someone else, and that I am successful in everything I do instead of making stupid comments like that, just answer my damn question. I clearly stated it was a "fantasy" speaker setup, and that I have little knowledge, and I wanted people to tell me what was wrong with it.

ouch how do you make a paragraph, I'm cringing reading my own post

Never built a pair of speakers before, anyway, If I ever did this would be my plan for my ideal homebuilt speakers. Could you guys please inform me of what I'm doing wrong? You can get a good idea of my current knowledge from my "fantasy" speaker design. I have no reason for the peticular frequencies or number of drivers, just from owning lots of different speakers and knowing what I want out of the drivers. maybe 7-8 drivers per speaker (1) 18 inch for ultra low frequencies, like 15hz-30hz (1) 12 inch for low frequencies 30hz-70hz (1) 8 inch woofer for 70-140hz (2) 4"-5" mids for 140hz-300hz (2) another set of smaller mids for 300-1000hz (1) tweeter for 1000hz-5000hz (1) tweeter for 5000+hz just have a crossover for each driver seems pretty simple to me as long as you seperate the bigger drivers so they dont share the air and build the correct volume enclosure. The mids/tweeters don't push much air so maybe I could have them all in the same enclosure. I have most of the drivers laying around. I figure the quality of the individual driver isn't to important if you seperate the frequencies like that. My big concern is having the amp run at 8ohms. How do the major companies with multiple drivers get their speakers to run off of 1 channel? could some one please take me to speaker school easy on the terms, I know you guys know a ton, try to make it easy for me to understand