Sean...Although I am a long time admirer of the FR Walsh driver I am not familiar with details of how it is assembled. However, as an engineer, I offer the following suggestions.
1. Big picture...The existing design appears to be difficult to build, nearly impossible to repair, and requiring a lot of skilled manual tweaking. It seems to me that this design was taken from the lab directly to production, without the essential step of industrial design/producability engineering. Redesign the thing so as to retain the basic concept of the traveling wave down the tapered cone, but with simple more automated fabrication as a primary goal. (What is the patent status of the Walsh driver?)
2. I always wondered about the basket legs getting in the way. Why not use a massive "C" structure instead of a basket?
3. Don't worry about efficiency. Powerful amps are cheap today, and (with digital technology) getting cheaper.
Send me a copy for evaluation :-)
1. Big picture...The existing design appears to be difficult to build, nearly impossible to repair, and requiring a lot of skilled manual tweaking. It seems to me that this design was taken from the lab directly to production, without the essential step of industrial design/producability engineering. Redesign the thing so as to retain the basic concept of the traveling wave down the tapered cone, but with simple more automated fabrication as a primary goal. (What is the patent status of the Walsh driver?)
2. I always wondered about the basket legs getting in the way. Why not use a massive "C" structure instead of a basket?
3. Don't worry about efficiency. Powerful amps are cheap today, and (with digital technology) getting cheaper.
Send me a copy for evaluation :-)