Speaker manufacturers or box manufacturers with off the shelf drivers?
It really helps everyone understand where you are coming from and the extent of greatness with regards to being the number one imaginary speaker designer / builder of our era!Indeed. And now, in appreciation of audiophiles the world around, the first annual Imaginary Speaker Designer/Builder of the Year Award goes to....... kenjit!!!! I hereby award you the coveted Golden Unicorn https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/golden-unicorn-104407865 |
To me, speaker designers are like chefs. Optimally they pick the best ingredients and know how to combine and prepare them such that the dish is appealing to the customer. On the margin I think the chef supersedes the ingredients. For an audio example, I’d take Joseph Audio speakers with their “off-the-shelf” Seas drivers over those of several manufacturers that use “proprietary” drivers because the way Joseph combines the ingredients sounds (tastes) better to me. It’s really a sum of the parts thing and how a designer weaves them together — and, just as importantly, how that combination melds with one’s own unique personal tastes — that’s more important than the quality of any one ingredient IMHO. |
@millercarbon Now don’t get me wrong. I am all for mass loading. But 307 TONS!?!?!Whats wrong with that? Airplanes weigh a lot. So do rockets. We can not only build them but we can make them fly.Its not rocket science. Lastly, I’m surprised that you aren’t more willing to share your extremely high quality speakers with the rest of the worldIt seems that most of you are happy with what is already available on the market. Theres no point in having something even better if you cant appreciate it. you just throw random value caps, coils and resistors at the crossover and then cross your fingers and hope it works? Do you then take measurements and adjust accordingly? If so, what instruments do you use to test and measure your speakers? Are they calibrated and used correctly and if so, do you have documentation stating that; we deserve to see this if so! I have been known to tune speakers BY EAR and BY HAND. Many of the speakers i hear arent even tuned right. The instrument I use are the ears on my head. Yes you basically throw a bunch of parts together and see what happens. That is how its done by everybody. There is no cookbook that tells you exactly what parts to use. Active tuning is easier for me. I dont like having to build and take apart components repeatedly. how does a completely open baffle design where you cut out the siding in your house and mount your off the shelf driver in your wall compare to your 8 feet thick concrete sidewall enclosure design? Its basically the same thing. An enclosure of the size and weight i suggested would be a house or bigger. If you are looking for state of the art sound there are no shortcuts. I was asking you which materials worked best in YOUR designs, you know, like the ones you built in reality I will not disclose details about my own designs as they are proprietary. Kenjit~ Master Tuner and Perfectionist Audiophile bar none. |
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