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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide.

Post Subject: Drivers from scratchPosted by morespeakers2 on: 2/3/2013

Romy,

I half expected some kind of whipping from you which I fully welcome. I am guessing some of it is to see if I buckle and get all weepy under a critical look at my statements but hopefully you are just trying to possibly get me to clarify my objectives a little better. What ever the reasons I will give it a shot to be a try to be little more clear on what I am trying to do.

1. Very correct I have no idea what an S2 will sound like and I do see your point in making dangerous assumptions that even though I do seem to share many of the opinions you do about the other things you have tired and described in your system. Seemed like a safe bet initially but until I get some experience with an S2 I won't know if it is something I even care about.

2. So anyway you do have a very good point that maybe I would think the S2 sounds horrible. No I don't know what you think is good sound and I supposed judging by the disproportionate amount of speakers makers in proportion to the much smaller amount of electronics producers we humans have some very different ideas on what makes good sound.

3. I am not a "me too" or vintage name weirdo, these are only tools for sound reproduction, really I don't give a crap about the S2 or 288.

4. Let me clarify that my objective is to build a high quality home horn loudspeaker that sounds as close as the real life instruments I listen to before the high quality omni capsule stereo configuration or mono mic is sent to the control room of my friends recording studio. I also would like it to like my system have a pleasant sound to my ears while reproducing sound. As even if speaker sounded very close to the source in real life but is not easy to listen to for long periods of time without fatigue, this speaker would be of no use to me.

5. So where do you start? I do not care about making some wet dream Frankenstein Macondo because that is what Romy has if that is what you are thinking. You have to start somewhere though and I believe the lower mids driver section and then mid bass horn are the places to start and work out from there. I have not read enough on this site to know what your ideas on building a system may be to know if you think this is a sound method. I you could kindly point me to where you have stated you ideas on how you start to build a system from scratch and point me to where you have talked of this on the site, I would appreciate it.

6. "It looks to me that you have no in-depth familiar with any of the application you mention" no shit Sherlock nor did I claim to, I have to admit this is the one thing I am a little surprised at is that you are not being a little more encouraging towards being able to tune your own drivers.

For someone like myself who is trying to learn what makes compression drivers tick and why they do what they do good or bad, to discourage this I don't understand. I do believe when you understand how these devices make their different sound you will be able to change parameters to fit your sonic objectives, no?

I mean are there really a lot of people out there playing with the engineering parameters of drivers? Maybe there are but I have never seen much evidence of them or talked to anyone doing it.

Ok, is this clear enough or does it still all seem moronic to you?

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