2026 InDIYana Event Info

Where: 

Hampton Inn, DuPont Rd. Fort Wayne.

When: MAY this year!!

Friday  - May 15th

8am(open) Music 9am to 10 pm (nothing loud after 9pm, per hotel's request. Background music only.)

We usually go out for dinner about 6-7pm, and then return and chat. Friday's schedule tends to be informal. However, with typically over 20 designs usually lined up for demonstration, expect something interesting going on all day long! Normally, most start arriving after noon, but we will be there all day for whomever shows up. The first 3 hours can be interesting with only a few people present, so come at 9:00 am if you can swing it, or 8am to help set up!

Saturday - May 16th

8am(open) Music 9am to 6 pm (we have the room until 10pm)

There will be a couple breaks, plus lunch break in the day. Electronic gear will be provided (amps, sources, cables). Please make sure your project can use banana jacks, or bring adapters so you can use the bananas in the speaker leads that will be present. Bring stands if you wish, but a pair of 22" stands will be present if you should need them. (If your bookshelf speakers have spikes underneath, please bring a pad to set them on.)

Presenter will have 5 minutes of their own music on an audio CD, to be played following the house tracks. If you do not bring/request music, you only get 5 minutes play time per project. There will not be 10 minutes on the event disc, only 5 minutes. For the theme, only the theme tracks are played (roughly 3 minutes time), but we can revisit them later for more if time allows. Please withhold synopsis until after the contest is over. Contest portion is normally started about 11am on Saturday, with the goal to be done by lunch. 

There will also be a Bluetooth streaming device handy for those with tracks on/from their phones. It is a 1mii HD Bluetooth receiver/sender with a nice ESS internal DAC. This has seemed to work very well for this purpose in past years.

Project theme or challenge details -

"FourMidAble Intersections" 

1.5 cubic feet internal gross maximum volume, everything but the outside walls. Allows svelte towers if the need be. Xover must be internal.
The object is to utilize a 4-octave spread midrange in a 3way from Fc to Fc, or split the 4 octaves to 2 octaves a piece between an upper and lower midrange in a 4way.
Widerange drivers are allowed, as they can throw their own issues into the mix.

We have not done 4ways before for the theme, nor are they commonplace projects in attendance. That said, I want to attempt one at some point, but some others may find it daunting. So the 3way option is for those that don't want to go that direction. It still stretches the midrange bandwidth for an inherently less easy blending.

• dual mids are acceptable as this may lead to xovers being pretty low on the highpass. Some examples include: 100-1600 (at this point, your woofer essentially becomes a sub-woofer), 400-6400, 500-8000, 600-9600  

• modified drivers are acceptable

• multiple cabinet sections are acceptable, it does not have to be one single cabinet.

• acoustic cabinet rolloff can be used as highpass on midrange, as this is still -12dB/oct, but watch your impedance.

• yes- you can use the same driver in more than one frequency band, but you'll need more than one actual driver to do this. IE- 4 driver 4-way, with 3x wideband drivers running the upper 3 bands, and a woofer below.

There is a thread for QnA at MAC forum, linked here:

https://discourse.midwestaudio.club/t/indiyana-2026-and-theme-continued/50/29

(Be advised that MAC forum made a transition to a new software and dischord home site between announcement of the theme and the event. This means that the first post post for the QnA is on the previous forum, linked at the top of the page linked here.)

One theme entry per person, please. Also to keep chances for everyone to demo over the 2 day event, please bring no more than 3 pair; one theme and 2 non-theme max, please. If Max of 40 is not reached, then more will be entertained.

***Challenge entries will play 3-4 minutes of challenge-music, and on to the next pair. This is to keep the entries playing consistent selections. You are (normally) welcome to play music of your own on your challenge entry at a time outside of the challenge. This is to keep the extent of time usage in the contest to a minimum. 

Good luck to those who enter the challenge! You can bring whatever speaker project you want, but challenge entries must meet the above criteria.

Gloating rights will be the reward/award if you win the challenge. Nothing more, nothing less. This is just for fun!

Sponsors may soon be lining up. See Sponsor page for more information.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE: Adult beverages: THIS IS NOT NEGOTIABLE!

THERE ARE TO BE NONE, AS IN ZERO, ADULT BEVERAGES CONSUMED WITHIN THE MEETING PLACE/CONFERENCE ROOM. THE HOTEL'S 'MEETING PLACE POLICY' DOES NOT PERMIT THEM IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM. IF WE WANT TO KEEP HAVING THIS EVENT AT THE HAMPTON DUPONT, OR EVEN AT ALL, I HIGHLY SUGGEST WE ABIDE BY THIS SET OF GUIDELINES.  

NEW TERMS OF SIGNED CONFERENCE ROOM AGREEMENT STATE VERBATIM: Any outside alcohol will result in a fee of $1,500.00 and immediate event conclusion without refund. No exceptions.

PPS- All tracks selected for the house tracks are done by a select few, myself included, and are not revealed until the day of and at the event. Theme tracks typically are not compiled or known by anyone except the person picking them, which are typically not done by me. If and when everything goes right, there should be CD copies of the house tracks available in limited quantities for those that might like one. MAC has in the past graciously hosted the tracks on their event-archiving website.

If you are not on the attendee list and would wish to attend, or would like to confirm your presence please send me an email. If you have questions you can ask via email to InDIYanaOrganizer@gmail.com

We would like to give a gigantic THANK YOU to our sponsors!

(Please see list linked above)

Thanks for your time, and interest, and I hope to see or meet you /here/there!

Ben "Wolf" S.

Please have a look at my projects archive here:

Wolfy's Armada

Just one of our dearly departed;

In memory of Matt Bunn