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- Wait with cutting out holes for the drivers, ports. etc. until you have received all the DIY kit parts and drivers.
Then check and measure if everything will fit correctly before doing the cutouts.
- Before cutting the damping materials and bitumen panels to size, make sure that you are placing it where it is meant to be placed as to Mr. Gravesen’s specifications. There is no need to over dampen cabinets and in many cases certain smaller parts of the cabinets can be left without bitumen as it will not affect the resonance lowering to do so.
- When working with bitumen panels, it is a good idea to leave them on a hot radiator or to gently heat them up with a hot air gun or hairdryer before gluing it in place in the cabinets. Heating them up till make them much more pliable and easier to work with.
We also recommend using additional glue (for example flooring or carpeting glue) in addition to the self adhesive glue that the bitumen panels come with as this glue will likely not suffice on its own.
- Before doing point to point soldering of the crossovers and securing the crossover components in place with glue / zip ties, make a mock-up of the placement of all the components to make sure you keep proper distance between the crossover components (mainly important for coils). This way you ensure that the distancing and the overall room on the crossover boards will work out.
- Before sending an email asking for technical assistance, kindly make sure you have read the entire design article thoroughly and that you have checked Mr. Gravesen’s “tips” sections, linked below:
For general tips and ideas, click HERE
For more in-depth articles about speaker building topics, click HERE
