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Constructing the
Loire Topcompact bookshelf speaker
Featuring Wavecor drivers WF182BD12 and TW030WA10
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Loire Top - 2-way bookshelf speaker
This article includes the necessary information for building the Loire Top bookshelf speaker.
The design of the Loire Top was made by the company Iris Strassacker of Germany (www.lautsprechershop.de), the Wavecor distributor for Central Europe. Any copyrights belong to Iris Strassacker.
The original article was published in the German DIY speaker magazine Klang+Ton issue 1/2014. The original article is in German language and is brought in full as the last pages of this paper.
The article here shows all design details for building a compact high-end 2-way bookshelf speaker, the Loire Top, using the Wavecor transducers
WF182BD12, 7” Balanced Drive mid/woofer TW030WA10, 30 mm textile dome tweeter
On the following two pages are first
1. Cabinet drawings 2. Crossover schematic
This in itself should be sufficient for a skillful speaker DIY to build the Loire Top speaker.
Additional information and details, as well as the final measurements and conclusions, may be found on pages 6 through 11, in the original Klang+Ton article below.
The final words made by Klang+Ton after testing the Loire Top construction were:
“Conclusion What comes out of this compact two-way speaker is, given the price, extremely amazing - the Drivers are in the best sense of the words Value-For-Money! “
Thomas Schmidt
Introduction
The article you are reading now is the entire article that describes building the Loire Top bookshelf speaker.
There will, however, be a second article that builds on this first article. Article II describes how to build a tall subwoofer, which as one example can be used as a stand and as a bass extension for the Loire Top to make up for an extended full-range speaker.
Article II will be published here at www.wavecor.com as soon as ready so please make sure to either return again soon or subscribe to our Newsletter here.
Part II
ContentIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 2Cabinet drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3Simple cabinet assembly instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4Crossover schematic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5Original article in Klang+Ton magazine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 6
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130
280 350
A
A
166
45 ˚
216
300
25
Ø104Ø80
Ø182Ø152
281
4
6
312
262
19
19
1919
Section A-A
Part Qty. Dimensions, mm
Top/bottom 2 281 x 166 x 19 MDF
Sides 2 350 x 300 x 25 MPX
Ba�e 1 350 x 166 x 19 MDF
Back panel 1 312 x 166 x 19 MDF
Loire Top cabinet
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WavecorWF182BD12
WavecorTW030WA10
3.3 uFPolypropylene
250 or 630 V
0.22 uFPolypropylene
250 or 630 V
10 Ohm1,0 uFMKP
10 Ohm
1.8 mHair core
Ø 1.3 mm
22 µFMKP
12 Ohm
1.0 uFMKP
1.8 Ohm
2.2 mHair core
Ø 0.7 mm
15 µFMKP
0.82 mHair core
Ø 0.7 mm
0.82 mHair core
Ø 0.7 mm
0.68 mHair core
Ø 0.7 mm
Loire Top crossover
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