Dylan, you do realize that the alternative to my theory would be to listen to a speaker that was designed according to the designers ears in their room and their preferences dont you? Thats no different than going to a restaurant to eat food that has been cooked by someone else. If you want something mediocre then why are you an audiophile? Being an audiophile is about wanting the very best. If you want the best, you have to ensure that the speaker is tuned to your preferences and to your room. Why should the designer know better than we do about how the crossover should be tuned? Perhaps to his ears he wants +2db at 10khz but to my ears I need -1db at 10khz? perhaps he has chosen linkwitz riley fourth order, but what we really want is a shallow first order on the bass and a second order on the tweeter? Perhaps the cabinetry was made of MDF but in reality it needed to be made of metal or concrete to sound its best? The possibilities are endless Dill. Wake up and smell the coffee!
Custom Tuning Conspiracy
I have a theory that the reason custom tuned loudspeakers are not offered to the market place is because it would essentially destroy the whole speaker industry. If every audiophile had their speakers custom made for them, there would simply be no need for further speakers to be made, until the next generation of audiophiles came along which would take decades.
If you think about it, most speakers are mass produced junk. They are made in vast quantities so that more profit can be made.
Even the few companies that do offer so called custom speakers are not really customized. Companies such as Gr research and Fritz offer their range of speakers hoewever GR research tunes all their speakers flat by default and Fritz does not tune his speakers to his customers exact specifications.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a speaker company that made speakers according to your exact specifications? You would choose the material, shape, drivers, components, configuration, crossover slopes and frequency response. It would be made to measure.
The people that mock this idea say that speakers dont need to be made to measure. This is nonsense. Every speaker on the market already sounds different from one another. Audiophiles then go on the merry go round and buy one speaker after another, each speaker never quite fulfilling their needs. How much time would be saved if the right speakers were made for you right from the start?
Not only would it save time it would save resources and energy. Every speaker model is produced in their thousands. Yet perhaps only a dozen people will eventually find that particular model suits their ears. So that means several hundred speakers have been made and will eventually end up in the junkyard. What a waste of time, energy and resources?
Should there be more companies doing truly custom tuned speakers among the vast sea of mass produced junk producing companies?
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Your example is no different than demanding auto companies design every car to each individuals size, driving style, taste in body style, number of cylinders, HP, ......... There are more than a few people who spend millions on autos, but that doesn't mean we all do. And if you knew anything about macroeconomics, you would understand that the cost of doing business would be (and is) cost prohibitive. It doesn't matter if "High end [cars] can already cost tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. So there is plenty of money already going into the pockets of the companies." That money does not cover the cost of providing luxury cars to every car owner. And unless you live in a different world than the rest of us, a very few percent (yet still many thousands of people) can afford what would be a break even price for the company to make individual speakers for every person. Did you ever see the movie Meet the Patents? You are like the airline customer service rep on the phone with Greg Focker: “Yeah, you gave me the wrong suitcase. Uh-huh. Yes, it's a black Samsonite. Uh-huh. Ok, well don't you think that the Samsonite people, in some crazy scheme in order to make a profit, made more than one black suitcase?” (on the phone)
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"If you want something mediocre then why are you an audiophile? Being an audiophile is about wanting the very best. If you want the best, you have to ensure that the speaker is tuned to your preferences and to your room. Why should the designer know better than we do about how the crossover should be tuned? Perhaps to his ears he wants +2db at 10khz but to my ears I need -1db at 10khz? perhaps he has chosen linkwitz riley fourth order, but what we really want is a shallow first order on the bass and a second order on the tweeter? " - You are creating problems & situations, then trying to solve them when just about nobody cares and just the existence of them is questionable. You continually try to ram this crap down our throats when it should be abundantly clear, to you, that just about everyone couldn't care less. It seems like your wish for attention is your goal here. Are you really getting the attention you want here?
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