Hi there, I'm a furniture designer based in NYC working with experimental materials and manufacturing techniques.
My best selling collection over the past few years is made using a combination of recycled paper fibers and plaster as a binder. Since starting this collection, I've been dying to build a set of speakers using my fibrous plaster material for the cabinets. My reason for this is that one of my biggest inspirations for this collection was mid-century Elipson Loudspeaker designs. They were using a material very similar to what I'm using, and I would love to build something that is a homage to what they were doing many years ago.
I've built some speaker cabinets with this material in the past with some success, but they didn't sound as great as they could have due to my lack of expertise in this realm. After discovering Decware and the wonderful community surrounding efficient single driver systems, I decided to pursue this endeavor more seriously.
I'm about to order a Decware SE84UFO as the heart of the system I'm building. I would love to hear peoples thoughts about what drivers are best suited for this project. I would also really appreciate some tips on calculating the best cabinet volume and port dimensions and how these things will be affected by my spherical cabinet design.
Below I'm attaching links to simple cad sketches of what I'm thinking for this cabinet, photos of previous speakers I've built with this material, a link to my website with my furniture work, and an article on Elipson for those who are not familiar. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
https://ibb.co/mhnCnBXhttps://ibb.co/tsF3S2Rhttps://ibb.co/sRvnSnmhttps://ibb.co/wCbnpxZhttps://mikeruizserra.com/Collection-1https://www.inner-magazines.com/audiophilia/elipson-a-loudspeaker-that-made-new-...