Why the cost increase?


I went to buy materials for a speaker project. I also priced some T-111 siding on 8" centers, 5/8 thick, Ship lap.
I hadn’t picked up any sheets or anything in over 18 months.

48" x 96 x 5/8 wood siding was 19-26.00 and on sale 15-20.00 per sheet, NOW 74-84.00 per sheet.

MDF 3/4" 48 x 96" if you can find it. 45-55.00 per sheet it was 22.00 to 27.00 per sheet.

2x4x8 DF stud grade 1.99-3.00 per. Now 4-6.00 per stud,

There is no shortage but there sure is a LOT of price gouging. NOTHING changed. Just the price..

The quality is worse. The workers aren’t paid worth a crap...Why the increase?

I’m getting ready to finish my home out. WOW.. I might have to rethink this a bit..

The price all most tripled in 12-18 months.. This kind of stuff is NOT cool at ALL.

Just my opinion of course. Any projects you’re doing get put on hold or STOPED?

YES I’m very frugal. Money never came easy, and it leaves the same way..

oldhvymec
As always Master M your approach is value minded and very enlightened.

I’ve been watching my nickel and dime projects turn to 5 and 10.00 dollar and now to 100-1000.00 dollar projects.

It did take 50 years though.

As for the 2 X sweet spot I’m just trying to stretch mine as I stand up.

The Bass just swells as I stand and the HF just goes away.

I’m convinced it’s possible, BUT in doing so I did make a discovery by turning the ribbon HF driver from a horizontal to a vertical plane. I had forgotten the NUMBER of degrees between vertical and horizontal like 45/225 and 215/135 degrees the X vs +

https://www.parts-express.com/Aurum-Cantus-G2Si-Ribbon-Tweeter-276-400


That really change the way my ears collect the HF wave (5khz >)
Especially 215/135 degrees vs 45/225 / degrees.

I’m just wondering what a line source of / or \  would sound like with 8" tall x 3 wide drivers.
The clocking combination are endless top to bottom

The G1s are 900 to 40,000 khz

https://www.parts-express.com/Aurum-Cantus-G1-Ribbon-Tweeter-276-420

Single drivers clocked differently on a vertical plane in a narrow baffle..

I think this is the one.. Now to get the visual correct. :-)

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asvjerry my grandmother was called PaPaw pretty common. she lived from 1889-1988 she was 99 when she moved on to heaven..

Played the piano for the Southern Baptist church for 75 years or so. 

I can here her playing "Just as I Am" just like it was yesterday..

She was greatest influence in my spiritual and really my WHOLE life.. She would reach out and cup my ears and whisper, "It's not what you know, It's who ya know" Then she would wink, give me a kiss on the forehead and smile.

Regards

I’ve been watching my nickel and dime projects turn to 5 and 10.00 dollar and now to 100-1000.00 dollar projects.
You are creative and your project will be interesting....I never think about speakers design myself tough ....I hope you will find cheap solutions if there is, i dont know...

Anyway all your posts are valuable and entertainig  or moving and i dream to eat some eggs from your well fed chicken...My own pigs will not do well to give the bacon tough...

My best to you....
*S*  The only grandmother I knew spoke not a word of english....only bohemian (Czech)....the only word she'd utter that I'd recognize was 'coffee'. which later I realize was 'cafe'.....but I recognized her in my mothers' manner.....

...but lived, worlds' away in mid-'Merica, more a parental force than in mine.  We all come to terms with 'Life, the Universe, and Everything' in our own means 'n method....;)

Vertical aligned ribbons...the taller the element, the more important this becomes imho....the dispersion has similarities to expo horns, but that's where they go their own ways....

More familiar with dipole ribbons, but once bipolar always such. *G* 
Happily flawed...;)

Just my prefs, but 3 G1 spaced *mmm* 6" apart on a minimalist column 'bout 2.5' floor to bottom...finding woofs that can match ribbon 'speed' is the tricky bit....

Dual voice coil units are promising, but kept to 6" dia.best....8"+ will lag, physics 'n mass, class.  Subs to taste...

I've grown tired of large cabinetry that I have to threaten the cats with a Chinese Resolution to keep paws 'n claws from, so have wandered off into minimalist wanderlands...

Small footprint, big impression-makers....a little above 5 'n dime, but there's satisfaction in that....

...as the 'ancient ad' used to pose:

"Where do you want to go today?"

...when it's all about the journey, not so much a destination....*s*