How I got started >

Up untill about a few years ago I was listening to music through a set of 2 way Pioneers Purchase price about $130.00 Also a pair of 3way Radio shack speakers with a huge 12 inch woofer on each side. These came with one of these all in one stereo systems valued at maybe $1,000 (time of purchase) My wife would not allow these monsters in the living room. We also had a pair of small Radio shack speakers maybe 3 or 4 inch drivers in a metal box. One day I got curious about what was inside the box and thats where the story starts...

My first project was the D3s These speakers cost about $150 in electronics and maybe another $100 in MDF and Oak. When I completed this project it was VERY obvious that these speakers far out preformed any of my other store bought speakers in every way. At that time my biggest suprise was the Bass, I had never heard anything like it in a 2 channel home stereo, even those big ol' 12inch drivers in the 3way's didn't come close! Now I was hooked, as you can see here. Since then I've built the BR1's, D8mtm's, 2 Subs, 2 sets of DHT - MTs, The "More-Pees" and a center channel.

"More-Pee" > The crossover network

Here's how the crossover looks, well kind of... Since this picture was taken changed a resistor and mounted it to a 3/4 inch board. I also glued the heck out of it, so now it looks ugly.

"More-Pee" > The assembled boxes

You'll notice the box looks bigger than the one Wayne built and that’s because it is. The internal dimensions are about the same but as you can see in this picture I added a double thick baffle and double thick bottom. The Crossover board was also made with 3/4 MDF and put on the bottom so that also was a factor. (Not to brag) But I really prefer the look of my baffle :) Lots of great beefy looking Oak.

The Morel "drop-in replacement"

As you can see by Wayne's web site the Morel MDT20 was not used in the original design. Some time later he came up with this and another option. After looking at his nifty frequency response chart and reading his comments I thought the Morel would work great for me so I went ahead with this option. This graph and commentary are no longer available on Wayne's website. (I got his approval for this graph & comment)

Wayne's comments:

"Overall, the Peerless 850122 + MDT-20, i.e., MorePee, combo sounds different from the D25, not better or worse, but different and certainly acceptable. The MDT-20 is a bit more refined than the D25 and sounds a bit smoother. The D25 appears to provide a bit more resolution. Either way, they both make for a very good system."

More-Pee > Building the box

I found this walkthrough VERY helpfull. The Walkthrough is meant for the D3 but I think it's a usefull lesson for building speaker box.

"More-Pee" > Box, baffle and port

Here's the start of my Morel-Peerless project AKA "More-Pee". This is the start of my project , I've been routing the baffle and installing the port

Wayne J's "More-Pees"

Up to this point in my speaker-building career I had only built Dayton projects and I was itchin to build something different.... When Wayne published this I new it was "The One"

Reflections

Reflections

David Ralph has the scoop

Dayton Reference Series tweeter and other great designer builder information!

RS 180 Center

Jon has been working on this center chanel as well, looks nice!

Chris' RS 150 project

Lou's RS 180 project

Lou's "Cryolite" uses the Bohlander Graebner
NEO 3PDR tweeter

Jon Marsh's RS 180 MTM design

Jon Marsh's RS 180 MTM design. He's useing the SEAS 27TDFC tweeter

Dave Brown's RS 180 project

RS 180 project

The Dayton RS180

This Speaker looks to be a real bargain and there are quite a few guys designing projects with it. I'm thinking my next project will be with these, we'll see...

PE Project Showcase

The Parts Express Project Showcase is a good spot to see quite a few projects from beginner to advanced.

John "Zaph" Krutke

This guy has a passion for design amazing stuff. Feel free to drop him an e-mail ;)

Roman J. Bednarek

Check out the cool navigation bar! And make note of his "Links page".

Dennis Murphy

Dennis Murphy is one of the most respected designers out there. I'm sure you could build any one of his designs with %100 confidence in his design, although I have never built one.

Parts Express Tech Talk

Got speaker building questions??? The PE board is quite helpful to beginers. This is where you want to be asking questions about the Dayton projects including Wayne J's, since he is currently not around.....

Speakerbuilder.net

Wayne J. has not been designing latley, but theres plenty of great stuff on his site. If you have any questions Try the PE board at http://www.pesupport.com/cgi-bin/config.pl

D3s

I built these D3s a few years ago