Speaker Gratification

Yes. Gratitude is good. Enjoy your music and system, whatever that may be. We have much bigger problems on the way.

Real gratification comes from visualizing a new speaker, designing it, building it and changing it until it sounds as you first imagined it. In 1999 I got the idea of building a fully horn loaded system with the bass provided by folded corner horns back in the corners and mids and highs played by horns out in the room where they would image better with the obvious time discrepancy corrected by a DSP component. It was 2004 before I found a DSP that would do everything I wanted. This was a DEQX preamp/DSP.

In 2004 I began purchasing components, sawing wood, machining and polishing bronze and brass. It took me about a year to get the system up and playing. The SQ was a big disappointment. Since then I have changed bass horns from the bass bins of Klipschorns to Bill Fitzmaurice designed HT Tuba subs. I changed the wide range driver in Oris 150 horns from Lowther PM4As to AER BD3s. I added Fostex t900a bullet super tweeters. I upgraded the DEQX from the PDC 2.6 to a DEQX HDP4. I reprogrammed the DEQX over and over with the final programming done with the assistance of DEQXpert, Larry Owens. Finally by 2017 I had my horn speakers sounding even better than I had imagined they would. This provides real lasting gratification.  That gratification is intensified by numerous audiophile friends who have heard my system saying really nice things about it such as, "That is the best I have ever heard that song."

That's nice if you enjoy that journey, which many of us would find to be torture. There are easier ways to get there, but good for you, you did it yourself! 

moose, good for you.

There aren't many who've experienced the advantage of remote subwoofer control as well as the flexibility that customizable memory presets can have on varied recordings all while maintaining an analog presentation above the crossover. 

“the best” speakers, or alot about nothing

If I had 1 cent for every time someone recommended a BEST speaker on audiogon, I;’d be a millionaire by now. Look xover type speakers are flawed at the getgo. Of course I’ve tried 1000 x’s to explian why and not one can follow my logic analysis.