So, I have a pair of the Sony GTK XB5 working well, it sits under my desk currently and I’ve noticed, listening to music from it while being under my desk isn’t as good as having a clear path to reach my ears. This is obviously expected.

Now my plan is to tear it apart and make use of the current drivers and DSP and split the single unit into two. I’ve already tested and there are 2 Tweets and 2 Woofers. Doing a stereo test with the speakers away from each other, I can confirm the tweeters and woofers have their own channels. Hence I would like to split it into two separate units and keep it on my desk.

I’ve seen a lot of posts asking where to start with building custom speakers, and a lot of the time the answer is to use kits as building speakers with off the shelves drivers requires tuning and a lot of ‘maths & science’. Is this tuning required even on a preprogrammed DSP as mine while changing the housing for the drivers? I’m looking to creating a two new speaker boxes for these drivers and suspect it will change the way it sound. Are there any auto adjusting programmes while factoring in I can’t modify the factory DSP.

Apologies if I’ve misused technical terms or got it completely wrong. I am new to this space and if I go forward with it, it’ll be my first. :)

  • Which_Swimmer433@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If you want to do this then why not. I’d go one of 2 ways.

    1. open it up and work out the size of the enclosure, half it and build 2 boxes with that size. Not sure how you would work out the port though so I would probably go with option 2
    2. remove the 2 tweeters and mount them in small boxes on your desk and leave the rest as it it (filling tweeter holes) under your desk.

    Either way you will have speakers that play sound of some sort and If it doesn’t work as you hoped then at least you’ve had fun, and are a bit more experienced for your next go.

    In my experience of building speakers from knowing nothing and just making speakers that look nice (no measurement at all) to actually using the speaker parameters to design proper enclosures and crossovers, they have all sounded ok. The later ones do sound better but my old ones didn’t sound bad.

    If no one else offers any better advice, I say just give it a go and see how it turns out. 👍🏻