To the friends of Bill Eckle,

William Eckle passed away last month.  Bill loved his audio hobby and was always eager to help others with their projects.  Bill's generosity is evident as you look through this website, for most of these featured projects he built for his family and friends.

In memory of Bill, a "Music Fest" will be held at Bill's house on Sunday, Dec. 9th at 1:00 pm.  There will be food and drink and of course lots of music.  For directions on how to get to Bill's home in Phoenix contact   DirectionstoBills@bhorns.com
 
 
 
 

DIY Loudspeaker Projects By:


  Click on my Logo above to see a block diagram of my system
       Mine is the one with the Aria 5s below
Also clicking on my logo above, will lead to a tutorial on making DIY interconnect cables
that are equal to, or better than "High End" cables costing up to more than 100 times the cost of these cables.


 


Click on image to view construction details.
My Aria 5s, used as front channels
in the stereo system and front
channels in the home theater system.
Focal drivers in an MTM configuration 
(Midrange Tweeter Midrange),
D'Appolito arrangement.

 

Click on image to see more pictures of
this latest AKSA 100-N + amplifier

Click on image to see more detail of the
AKSA 100 Watt Stereo amplifier in 
Chinese red.
After seeing & hearing the amplifiers detailed below, a couple of friends wanted me to build them
AKSA's also. So I built two more AKSA 100s, (shown above) this time with Plexiglas tops to show off the interior.

 
 

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Assembling the AKSA 100-N Plus Stereo Amplifier.
A True Audiophile  Amplifier

Designing and building the case.

Click on image on the left for details.


 


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Liked the AKSA 100-N amplifier above so well
I built a three channel version 
AKSA 100-N Plus.

This completed amplifier is 6 inches high, 
19 inch rack mount front, 12 inches deep,
and weighs 43 ½ pounds

Click on image to see construction details.
Clicking on the image to the left will detail the construction
of a pair of Apex ll cabinets and an Apex C cabinet.
The fronts are stained cherry ¼" MDF core plywood and
the rest of the cabinets are painted "piano black".


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This is the subwoofer that goes with the 7.1
home theater speaker system on the right.

Click on image to see details

 


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On the left is a friend's Altec 815A cabinets, 
 housing two 15" woofers,
and an EdgarHorn mid horn.

Clicking on the image at left also will show
 pictures of Altec 816 cabinet clones in an

                            MTM arrangment in another system.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Click on picture to view construction details.
A Home Theater Loudspeaker
System with Aria 7s in the front
using Focal Drivers and
  Tonegen 1259 Drivers as
used in the NHT 3.3 for
the powered subwoofers.

 


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    Powered Subwoofers for the 
    above System.
    Using 12" Drivers as used in the 
    NHT 3.3 Speaker System

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Need help with your mid-bass ?
Try this approach, a pair of Focal model
11K7512s in each cabinet, stained
"Chinese Red".
Grills are held on by magnets embeded in the grill 
and matching magnets under the ¼" oak plywood
on the front.

Click on image to view construction details.
A CD/DVD storage cabinet was made to sit atop this sub cabinet also.
Building yet another Tonegen/NHT 1259 subwoofer
with a 300 Watt amplifier.




















 

 

 
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                    details
Building cabinets for the Fostex F200A,
8", full range driver.
These cabinets are a combination of:
Bass Reflex, Transmission Line,
and tuned chamber.

 
 

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The Vifa Studio kit from Madisound.
A two way speaker system using a passive radiator
instead of a port.


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Building a Powered Baby (11") Subwoofer . 
The "Poseidon" by North Creek Music

 
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Click on image to view construction details.
Building a cabinet for the 15" Tumult
subwoofer and two 18" passive radiators.

 

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Building a powered subwoofer for a computer
sound card, using a Tang Band 8" woofer
and two Dayton 8" passive radiators, powered
by a 2.1 media amplifier. This will be used with
a pair of "Wedding" speakers, as shown
elsewhere on this site.


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Building three front 
(Left, Center, Right)

Three rear
(Left Rear, Center Rear, Right Rear)

Speaker kits from GR-Research

 
   Click on picture to view construction details.
Building a Subwoofer Cabinet for 2) 15" Drivers and 4) 18" Passive Radiators

(The Brute Force Approach)

 

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   An Almost Clone of the Altec 816 Horn Cabinet.
Note: This is the article as submitted to Speaker Builder magazine.
The article appeared
in issue # 8   -   2000.

 

   Click on picture to view construction details.
Terra Speaker system using Focal
 Drivers and matching Equipment
Cabinets.

 

   Click on picture to view construction details.
The Wedding
(a marriage made in heaven).
 Subwoofers, and a Four Channel
    Amplifier with Electronic Crossover,
For a Multi Media System.

 

Click on picture to view home theater details. 
The ALTAIR
An original three way speaker system designed for music, using a Focal 10V416, 10"
woofer, Focal 5N313 midrange and a
Focal TC90 TDx tweeter.
A powered subwoofer, center channel speaker,
and surround speakers were added to 
create a home theater.

 

Click on picture to enlarge.
This is a copy of an Altec "Malibu" cabinet made
to house an Altec A7-800 speaker system. 
This cabinet was made over 20years ago 
as part of a stereo system. The owner now wanted
to add a center channel and wanted this center
channel speaker tobe a close match to 
his existing "Malibu's". This resulted in the
project detailed on the right.

Click on image to see center channel details
Note: This is the project as submitted to AudioXpress, and
appeared in the April 2007 issue.

 

       Click on picture to view both systems.
       Two Stereo Systems Featuring 
      the Audax 652 Speaker Systems.

 


Click on picture to view more projects. 
     Building a Base for a TV
     A Bedroom Horn System
     Equipment Cabinets
     And More Projects.

 


Click on picture to view construction details.
      Two Computer Work Stations

 
 Found some pictures from the mid 70s.
If you'd like to visit a nostalgia four 
channel system, click on the
picture on the left.

 
Click on Altec logo to view history and usage of Altec drivers in small and large "Voice of the Theater" systems.

 

            Click on driver to view tables.
   Tables of Vintage drivers as 
    measured by Prof. Ashley in the 
    early 70s (before T/S parameters).

 

Joe Zawinul        R.I.P.
Note: If you'd like to read a review of Tale Spinnin', the 4
channel, SQ LP by Weather  Report, that appeared in Audio
Magazine, in February 1976, click on Joe's image above.

Don Ellis    R.I.P.