Hey everyone! Today I'm going to build a pair of loudspeakers from a kit
I'm pretty excited about this because loudspeaker kits are one of those classic DIY projects
you hear old-timers in the hardware community talk about.
First off, lets talk about what kind of speakers we're making.
If you follow my Instagram: ReallySexyCyborg
you'll notice I never use any kind of filters or effects or anything.
Just color correction, and sometimes I have a burn or cuts on my hands from shop work, I edit that out
But imagine trying to do color correction on an image that already
had one of those goofy blurry filters applied- it would be really tough.
You want the most accurate representation of the image you are working on in order to make any corrections
even if that raw image doesn't look so pretty.
It's the same idea with audio
the audio we're used to hearing kind of has filters applied
exaggerated bass and stuff like that so games and movies go *thump thump thump*.
Most consumer audio equipment is designed to sound good to our ears
but good isn't the same as accurate
and if we are doing editing, we want accurate.
For that, you need what's called studio monitors. Very accurate sounding speakers.
From my reading this week
it seems the BBC kind of came up with a lot of the ideas surrounding studio monitors
so it's not surprising that many of the best monitors have come from the UK
and they're well known for them.
The Little British Monitor is a Kickstarter project to offer a nice, up to date studio monitor
in that tradition for a reasonable price.
It's created by an Audio Engineer by the name of Simon Ashton
and Simon was nice enough to send me a kit to build and review.
I've never built anything out of wood, or any audio equipment.
But fortunately it comes with really detailed instructions. So lets give it a go!
Oh, some candies, thank you.
Some foam.
Cables and more components.
I am just going to mark the wires and draw W for woofers
Now I am going to tape the other wires and mark it with a marker pen, T (tweeters).
Alright, here you go. Let's have a listen.
I know this is not the perfect listening setup.
As I know you will say it in the comment.
But this is what I've got. At least all the music is in lossless format.
Let's have a listen to my playlist.
I actually hate this song, but my mom used to play this song over and over again.
So I know this song very well, I know it is a good song for testing.
Okay, they sound great!
I know you can't tell though YouTube
but they have a really rich, full sound
and there's a lot of detail I've never heard before even in songs I know really well.
Still, I'll leave discussion of that up to audiophiles.
I just know what sounds good to me.
I have to say, a lot of kits I've seen out there don't really leave you with something useful, but this really is
I can use it whenever I edit video.
Aside from saving a bit of money it's quite a lot of fun and very satisfying.
Ok, I'm going to leave the link in the description box in case you want to get your own Little British Monitors.
Please like, subscribe, repost and tell your friends, until next time remember if I can do it, anyone can do it.
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