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World’s Best Speakers!

Tech Ingredients shows how to build flat panel speakers from exciters and foam board, with construction guidelines, measured SPL comparisons and a complete system playing music.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters point to it as a build guide for cheap DIY speakers that sound as good as expensive ones.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Tech Ingredients
Topic
diy speakers
Format
tutorial
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
7
Recommendation years in dataset
2020–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • I built my own speakers for under $200 and I honestly think they are some of the best I've ever heard for a personal setup. They were inspired by [VIDEO] (Tech Ingredients) . I built the speakers from foam board, the subwoofer from car audio …

    fasteddie31003 on Hacker News · 2022-09
    In “Secrets” about the consumer audio business you may find interesting
  • If you want an affordable, good sounding speaker that you can build yourself, you might wanna take a look at Tech Ingredients: [VIDEO]

    sandreas on Hacker News · 2023-06
    In Classic components could be replaced by rubber in next-gen loudspeakers
  • In this video, they explain that the bandpass port for letting air out of typically the back of speakers is essential for acoustic transmission including bass; and they made an anechoic chamber. "World's Second Best Speakers!" [LINK] TechIngedients also has a video about attaching $6 …

    westurner on Hacker News · 2025-01
    In Show HN: Design/build of some parametric speaker cabinets with OpenSCAD

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