You Can DIY! The Live-Edge Dipoles

For the speaker builders, Perry Marshall details everything there is to know about his beautiful Live-Edge Dipoles project. A design that was inspired by two slabs of birch the author brought home, allowing to finally bring to fruition his idea to build these dipoles. Marshall reveals all the specifics of the driver choices, radiation pattern, and crossovers, while explaining the effects of the obtained radiation pattern and how the speakers behave in practice. This article was originally published in audioXpress, January 2021.

In the October 2023 issue of audioXpress, Jan Didden visits Dutch & Dutch, Reinhold Lutz shares a practical way to measure loudspeakers in any room with his AudioChiemgau Mode-Compensator, which is tested by Rens Tellers. We have two DIY open baffle projects from Perry Marshall and Charlie Laub, Richard Honeycutt writes about the Western Electric 91E, and Ethan Winer shares his Popping P Filter circuit. In the Sound Control column, Honeycutt explores Passive Variable Acoustics, and Chuck Hansen concludes his article series on Power Transformers. audioXpress October 2023 is now available in print, digital, and online.