Hobby HiFi   - a German loudspeaker DIY publication

The magazine Hobby HiFi, published by the Timmermanns family since 1999, features many interesting loudspeakers, design suggestions, reviews and further useful information.

You get the German DIY plans with our DIY kit. If you want them without kit you get them within a journal from Timmermanns Verlag GmbH, Hobby HiFi Nachbestell-Service, Postfach 2061, 47518 Kleve or directly from www.hobbyhifi.de.

Contents

    Hobby HiFi 6/2010 (Oct./Nov. 2010):
High End Project: V-Maxx combines the best Visaton drivers resulting in a four-way bass reflex system.
Technology: Mikro-Horn 2011 as an example Bernd Timmermanns wants to show how small a horn could be.
Clevere Concepte: Femto is a miniature bass reflex loudspeaker equipped with a Vifa 8 NE 125/4 full range driver.
Clevere Concepte: Femto 5 is a miniature bass reflex loudspeaker equipped with a Vifa 8 NE 125/4 full range driver.

    Hobby HiFi 5/2010 (Aug./Sept. 2010):
High End Project: Triga Neo Pro, 3 way reference speaker with Focal Chassis and Audaphon ribbon.
Clevere Concepte: SBTL a Fuzzy Transmissionline
Technology: PaRaSub XXL Subwoofer with passive radiator
Technology: Hidden Sub 2x8 a subwoofer that may be hidden quite easily.

    Hobby HiFi 4/2010 (June/July 2010):
High End Project: El Nino - small Shelf speaker with beautiful voices.
Technology: The Voice Sub - front loaded bass horn with 10 inch woofer of P.Audio
Technology: Daedalus-TL with Visaton fullrange in a Transmissionline cabinet
CC104: Cube and Shere - fullrange driver in spherical or in cubical cabinet

    Hobby HiFi 2/2009 (Febr./März 2009):
Technology: Cumulus Horn 2 with Thiel SCS4
High End Project: Visaton Classic 200 GF - Visaton 3-Wege Standbox mit Titanmembran-Mitteltöner
CC92: Mivoc MiniSat and MiniCenter with XAW 110 HC and fabric tweeter XGH 258 ALU
Pico Lino 2 - A small transmission line speaker with Vifa full range drive

    Hobby HiFi 1/2009 (Dez./Jan. 2009):
CC91 TransMISSIONline The Fuzzy Transmissionline is a new concept by Bernd Timmermanns.
MMR (Mini Monitor Ribbon) a miniature shelf speaker with ribbon tweeter

    Hobby HiFi 6/2008 (Oct./Nov. 2008):
Technology Wildcard a ported horn shelf speaker with highpass and Mivoc drivers.
CC91 Wavesat 118 a miniature shelf speaker with Wavecor drivers TW030 WA01 and WF118 WA02.

    Hobby HiFi 5/2008 (Aug./Sept. 2008):
Wavesub 178 is a subwoofer with Wavecor chassis capable of producing extremely low bass from small cabinet.
High End Project
Bookshelf BS1 a Seas Excel 3 way shelf speaker.
CC85.1 Visaton Clou A fully grown up floorstander going for a song.
CC85.2 Start Air Kit an universal and reasonably priced loudspeaker.

    Hobby HiFi 4/2008 (June/July 2008):
CC84: Blue Sat 2 a small shelf box with Visaton chassis.
Technology ASE Cevio ein Hochton-Line-Array mit Vifa-/Peerless-Bestückung
High End Project Jericho 08 with Seas Fullrange Exotic F8
High End Project Platino TL mit Seas Chassis

    Hobby HiFi 3/2008 (April/May 2008):
CC83: Mission 2313 a small floorstanding with Mission speakers.
Visaton Aria MHT is a Visaton design with Visaton magnetostats MHT 12 and the top notch Visaton TI 100, titanium midrange driver.
The voice 3 is a party PA speaker with low priced P.Audio drivers.

    Hobby HiFi 2/2008 (Febr./March 2008):
Technology Jericho 08
CC82: Clever Concepts (CC) 82 - Mivoc Transmission Line MTL 138
GHP Monitor Compact shelf loudspeaker with excellent sound quality.
  It comprises a Seas Excel tweeter T29 AF001 with aluminium / magnesium diaphragm and an Excel W18 E001 bass driver.

    Hobby HiFi 1/2008 (Dec./Jan. 2008):
CC81: Mission 2410 a small floorstanding with Mission chassis
Subwoofer Sub 10 BRHP ported subwoofer with high pass
Hobby HiFi Compact with Excel Micro Monitor and Tower E-Motion E-Motion II Thor Evo 04 Trym The Voice The Voice 2 Disub 12/2 Sub Zero

    Hobby HiFi 6/2007 (Okt./Nov. 2007):
BK 201 KH: Based on the idea by Günter Damde an imposing twin horn was developed
two Harwood Monitor 18 - shelf and floorstanding
CC76: Capella Center - Center with Mivoc drivers
Hora - floorstanding with tweeter on top of the cabinet
Electronic: Omnes Audio Amplifier Module with DSP DBC 12

    Hobby HiFi 5/2007 (Aug./Spet 2007):
Pico Lino 2 a Mini Transmissionline with Vifa fullrange
Concorde - a new Concorde MK III
Sub Zero - subwoofer with 46 cm woofer
Ground Sound 1503 - active module with dsp crossover
active crossover for DIY kit optimum

    Hobby HiFi 4/2007 (June/July 2007):
Faktum - big floostanding with Mundorf and Scan Speak
The voice 2 - floorstanding
Disub 12/2 - Double Dipol

    Hobby HiFi 3/2007 (April/May 2007):
Audimax - a floorstanding ... what's technically viable
MPR2 HXT - a shelf speaker designed by Gerd Lommersum
CC73: Capella Plus - two way speaker with integrated subwoofer
Test: 25 cm Bässe

    Hobby HiFi 2/2007 (Febr./March 2007):
Ladylike II - with Topas Signature Evo 07 and subwoofer
Trym - a ported boxx with Seas Excel chassis
M-Horn - an exponential horn with Mivoc tweeter and woofer
Test: coax speaker from 10 to 38 cm

    Hobby HiFi 1/2007 (Dec./Jan. 2007):
Hypergraph TL - transmissionline with Hypergraph woofer
CC71: Harwood Monitor - a small monitor with magnetostat.
SMS (Super Mini Sub) or how to construct a sub out of a port.
Test: 46 cm woofer

    Hobby HiFi 6/2006 (October/November 2006):
Topas Plus - a small floorstanding with bass support.
CC66: Gradient TL - a transmissionline with gradient chassis
BPHPsub - a subwoofer with Mivoc AW 3000
Test: 12 ribbons, air motion transformer and magnetostats

    Hobby HiFi 5/2006 (August/September 2006):
New Technology: Faro - a transmissionline with magnetistat and XBL-woofer.
Subwoofer subwoofer AWM 12 - a subwoofer with 30 cm Mivoc AWM 124
CC65: Breitbänder Dacapo tower, satellit and Center
Electronic: Genius project crossovers with integrated operational amps.
Optimum - a 176 x 45 x 57 cm huge floorstanding
Test: Mivocs 30cm-subwoofer.
Test: 10 different 20cm-fullrange produced from 1955 till 2006.

    Hobby HiFi 4/2006 (June/July 2006):
TBTL (Tang Band Transmission Line) - a Floorstanding with Tang Band und Omnes Audio chassis
VOX 253 MTI Ladylike a sat-sub-system deduced from VOX 253 MTI
CC64: Macro Cube a closed Sub with bass enhancement with series capacitor
Test: 3 different chassis.
Test: 10 drivers and horns.
building crossovers like the professionals do
Top 30: The best self building projects of Hobby HiFi
electronics: active tube amps with Thels Audio boards.

    Hobby HiFi 3/2006 (April/Mai 2006):
CC63: Dacapo - open radiator with high efficiency
Dipol Disub 18/2 a dipole subwoofer with two 18 inch woofer inside
The Voice - small PA box
Floorstanding from Andreas Stein with ribbon and Vifa speakers
Test: 9 woofer
Test: tweeter
Electronic: Audio-Masterboards from Thel (to build up amplifiers)
Technic Talk: Discussions ...