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Constructing the

Loire Topcompact bookshelf speaker

Featuring Wavecor drivers WF182BD12 and TW030WA10

Copyright© 2014 by Wavecor Ltd., Guangzhou, China. All rights reserved. Wavecor® is a registered trademark of Wavecor Ltd.For more information please visit www.Wavecor.com

CONSTRUCTION ARTICLE

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





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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