El Palmisté

Overview

The two-way pair of loudspeakers are designed to function as film and music mixing monitors.  The design includes an 8″ woofer and a 1″ tweeter mounted against a waveguide to improve its potential.  The speakers are vented with a port on each inner side, and have a passive crossover.

  

Design Goals

• Produce 103 spl to meet film mixing standards (83dB SPL with 20 db of headroom).
• Flat frequency response and maintain detailed sound.
• Good low frequency extension.
• Cost around $500.
• Be somewhat easy to move.

Key Features

• 2-way system
• passive crossover
• vented system
• dome tweeter mounted to waveguide
• f3 of 40hz
• bandwidth of +/- 2.5 dB  from 40hz-19khz

Drivers

Scan-Speak Discovery 22W 8″ Woofer

SEAS Prestige 27TDFC 1″ Textile Dome Tweeter

Cabinet

Each wall consists of:

3/4″ ply, 1/8″ loaded vinyl, 3/4″ MDF

Documents

Speaker Drafting

Crossover Schematic

Design Statement

Speaker Glossy

Final Test Report

Tests

Frequency Response With Woofer/Tweeter Summation

Horizontal Off Axis Response (15,30,45,60)
Vertical Off Axis (15,30,45,60)

Frequency Response with Inverted Phase

Step Response

Impulse Response

Impedance as compared to an 8 ohm resister with port and total response

Harmonic Distortion

Phase

Frequency Response Difference Between Speakers

Waterfall Plot in an Anechoic Chamber

Woofer

Woofer Response
Woofer Horizontal Off Axis (15,30,45,60)

Woofer Vertical Off Axis (15,30,45,60)

Woofer Step Response

Woofer Impulse Response

Woofer Harmonic Distortion
Woofer Phase

Woofer Response Difference Between Both Speakers

Tweeter

Tweeter Frequency Response

Tweeter Horizontal Off Axis (15,30,45,60)
Tweeter Vertical Off Axis (15,30,45,60)

Tweeter Step Response

Tweeter Impulse Response

Tweeter Harmonic Distortion

Tweeter Phase

Tweeter Difference Between Speakers

El Palmisté by Alex Palma is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.