WinISD

WinISD aims to guide you through the necessary steps of designing your own, improved loudspeaker enclosures, from simple cabinets to complex woofer boxes. Loudspeakers are acoustic transducers that connect speaker drivers and electronic hardware components, in order to manage sound vibration and generate amplified audio signals.

The application can be used for creating closed, vented, bandpass boxes and multi-way speakers. However, technological and electronics knowledge is required, since WinISD only calculates functioning parameters and generates plots, leaving the interpretation, assembling and mounting part to you. Thus, you have to pay close attention to each technical term, since there is the risk of inputting incorrect entries which might result in a non-working model.

The software utility provides support for a wide range of speaker drivers, but you can also create your own driver configuration from scratch by entering data manually while trying to follow the manufacturer’s specifications (which is no easy task).

Loudspeaker systems are usually mounted inside an enclosure or a cabinet, in order to separate the sound waves generated from the front and back. WinISD comes with a box shape editor that enables you to quickly determine the optimal dimensions for the type of loudspeaker you want to build, depending on its volume and board thickness.

Each parameter of the model is configurable. It is possible to change the power level, distance and number of drives included in the project, as well as make fine adjustments to the signal frequency variation. In addition to this, WinISD enables you to calculate various active and passive filters, based on user-defined bass frequencies and other parameters.

The main purpose of WinISD is to assist you in creating the ideal loudspeaker enclosure that can offer high-fidelity sound reproduction. With a great idea and the necessary know-how, all that is left is to grab your wood-working tools and start a project.