Should you Buy Speakers or Build yourself | Speaker Buying/Building Pros and Cons

Speaker Buying Vs Speaker Building | Guide | Pros & Cons.

So you've been using a regular Home Theatre Speaker Sets for your system which has 3 Separate Units of  Speaker Driver of which one is the Subwoofer in which the Amp and Other Components are pre-installed and the other two are units are just Mid Range Speaker or Tweeters. 

You think that now is the right time to upgrade/replace the old speaker set and try a newer one. Bookshelf Speakers are what Grabbing your attention the most as it provide the professional and symmetrical looks to the over all system unlike a Home theatre set where you have to manage three separate driver units. So you are convinced that you will go with a set of Bookshelf Speakers but you later find out that these bookshelf speakers are priced at much higher rate than the basic Home theatre Set and you start to wonder whether you should buy a Set of Bookshelf Speakers or Build your very own. Here is a overview on whether you should buy one or build instead a speaker set.   

Building a Speaker Set Pros and Cons.

Building a Speaker set of your own gives a ton of options to go with aesthetics and functionality that you have full control of. One can go with the desired size of Speaker Driver Units, Amplifier, Enclosure Design, Enclosure Aesthetics and etc. But there are some serious drawbacks of building your own speaker system. Here are the Pros and Cons of Building Speaker System.

Pros.

• One can design the overall look of System.
• The Driver, Amplifier and other components if work in synchronization will give desired output and one has full control on choosing the components.

 Cons.

Unlike PC Build where the components are readily available and you can build the system based on your desired configuration and Personal Choice of Components. The Case is different with speaker building 

• Choosing the Right Amplifier which can corresponds to the impedance of and Wattage of the speaker so the speaker does not blows up or the IC of the Amp.
• Finding the Right SMPS for the amplifier.
• Additional cost of buying network crossovers.
• Designing the Enclosure with the help of Software to achieve the desired range of frequency so you can get most out of your speaker and tedious job of cutting, routing and building speaker enclosure.

So there were some of the Pros and Cons. In my suggestion, buying a speaker set instead is a better option than rather just building one. You see that designing the enclosure, choosing the right drivers, and etc requires additional knowledge of acoustics and electronics. One should not build a Speaker set themselves unless they have complete knowledge of all the parameters and a strong desire to design a custom speaker. Also building a Speaker Set will cost you more than just simply buying one.

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