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In the Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO

Post Subject: Clever DIY going on where?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/24/2011

jessie.dazzle wrote:
Even if you don't agree with the design, there's some clever DIY going on here.

Sorry, I did not now see any “clever DIY going on” in there. For sure he is a skilful, perhaps wonderful machinist and perhaps good carpenter but what it all has to do with audio? Yes, a number of design decisions that he took with this Goto prototype were very good, he deserves credit for that. However, in reality his good design decisions are good ONLY from the perspective that any other Goto system design decisions were too idiotic. The strictly vertical configuration and time alignment is not a “good design decisions” but an absolute norm without which a multichannel inhalation must be automatically discarded and faulty. So, if he complied with the very basic and very fundamental rules then might it be considered as “clever DIY going on”? If a person designed a car and did not run the gas line right above the muffler then can we consider it as a “good design decision” or it is just a very basic compliance with very rudimental common sense?

The most complicated task that do require creativity: engaging the upperbass horn, designing proper frame, gradual continuing of the horn’ size change, the elimination of horizontal surfaces, the subject of esthetics and many other in fact were not handled but this Goto prototype. The guy built a playback, worked with crossovers but he kind of forgot to mention in his bit DIY site any single word about sound. I do not think he ever think about Sound and most likely for him Sound is what push his RTA that has no more objectives then juts a justification of DIY efforts. It is not surprise that his measurement with RTA of the noise from his motorcycle creates in him as much excitement as output of his playback.

I said many time that I do not appreciate and do not respect 999.99% of all those DIY audio people. If this one is clever and know how to drink glue and then pee in the wood in order the glue to cure stronger then he would be a great addition to Home Depot’s freak-show but it has nothing to do with audio.

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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