Link collection on DiY loudspeaker design and building
Below I share a few links to sites mostly about loudspeaker design and DiY implementation that I found interesting and valuable.
A big link collection on audiophile DIY: TEWM audiophile DIY links
A big link collection on speaker DIY, unfortunately with many outdated links: Pjay's speaker DIY link collection
Link collection mostly on horn and TL speakers and tube amplifiers: mh-audio's links
Another, smaller link collection: diyaudioprojects
Shine7's audio links: shine7 audio
Paul Carmody's favorite speaker DIY links: DIY speaker links
The biggest DIY audio forum: diyaudio.com
Audioasylum forum: audioasylum.com
Speakerplans forum: speakerplans.com
AVS forum DiY speaker topic: avsforum.com
Infinite baffle subwoofers forum: Infinitely baffled
A comprehensive site on loudspeaker theory, and design: diy-loudspeakers
Acoustics theory and sound system design: Art Ludwig
An excellent site on HIFI loudspeaker design and measurement: mh-audio.nl
Most of what you should know about building speakers, box and crossover wizard, and driver database: petoindominique.fr (in French)
A loudspeaker design example step by step: Dave Dal Farra
For stark beginners A practical speaker design video course: Kirby meets audio
For beginners A video course on loudspeaker design basics: Marius Tanasescu 101
For beginners A video course on loudspeaker measurement: Marius Tanasescu 201
For beginners A video course on crossover design: Marius Tanasescu on crossover design
If you want to learn the scientific background behind audio design: Coursera Musical Sound and Electronics
For stark beginners Basic tools to start DiY speaker building (video): Kirby meets audio
For stark beginners How to choose speaker building materials (video): Kirby meets audio
For beginners A guide to build a simple loudspeaker enclosure, with many pictures: popularmechanics -- build your own speakers
An illustrated guide to building loudspeakers: instructables -- how to build custom speakers
Speaker building practical procedures and tips with pictures: Bill Collo
Description of the construction of various loudspeaker kits: lautsprecherbau.de (in German)
Loudspeaker plans with downloadable CAD drawings: Frank Brüchert (in German)
All the goodies about subwoofer DIY: diysubwoofers
Advantages of cardioid subwoofers: Cardioid bass
Collo's DiY subwoofer tools: Bill Collo
A very extensive database of speaker drivers with manufacturer data and parametric search option: loudspeakerdatabase.com
A few midwoofer and many midrange measurements with frequency response and distortion: Timothy Feleppa's measurements
John Krutke's many speaker measurements including frequency response, impedance, CSD, distortion, and T/S parameters: Zaph audio
Göran's speaker measurements with frequency response, distortion and T/S parameters: AudioExcite
Independent measurements of many fine speakers: Hificompass
Ampslab's favorite speakers with measurements: Ampslab's hifi drivers
Audio measurement and analyser software: ARTA
Acoustical measurement and analyser software: REW
An excellent loudspeaker design software and surprisingly it's free! VituixCAD
Loudspeaker design and simulation software Basta! (Google says malware risk)
Crossover designer software: Xsim
Audio measurement software: RMAA
Direct radiator and horn loaded loudspeaker simulator: Hornresp
Frequency and impulse response measurement software: Holmimpulse
Enclosure calculations (low frequency curves and baffle step): micka.de
FRD/ZMA file based crossover simulator (German): xover204a or xover204a
Video tutorial for xover204a: xover204a video
Closed, ported and bandpass design software: WinISD
Passive crossover designer spreadsheet: Jeff Bagby PCD
Box diffraction and boundary reinforcement simulator spreadsheet: Jeff Bagby BDBS
SPICE simulator: LTspice
Circuit simulation: Qucs
My price/performance ratio conscious DiY loudspeaker plans (preliminary): Euraudio
Links to existing DiY speaker designs: Partsexpress links
Göran's loudspeaker plans: AudioExcite
Troels Gravesen's designs: Troels Gravesen
Lots of DIY kits: Lautsprechershop
Seas DIY kits: Seas kits
Curt Campbell's kits: Speaker design works
Roman J. Bednarek's designs: RJB Audio
HHH kits: Humble Homemade Hifi
Kimmo Saunisto's designs: kimmosaunisto.net
Paul Carmody's designs: Undefinition
A big German speaker site with DiY plans: Acoustic design magazin (in German)
Completed speaker designs: htguide
Probably the biggest audio related internet site list: audiogrid
A crash course on the fundamentals of audio: TEWM audio course
What counts and what counts not in modern audio formats? xiph.org
Blog about building and measuring horn speakers: Joseph Crowe
Interesting horn speakers, for bass range, too:
inlowsound (John Inlow)
Image showcase of homebuilt hi-fi components: Homebuilt hi-fi
The Linkwitz lab (no need to introduce for audiophiles): Linkwitzlab
Home page of the LDA low distortion power amplifier: Euraudio LDA
Thread on diyaudio.com about Reliable speaker vendors in the EU
Extensive product palette, low shipping cost within Europe: soundimports.eu
Speakerland (drivers but also speaker kits)