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Paul S
San Diego, California, USA
Posts 2,658
Joined on 10-12-2006
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One-Off Drivers, Speakers and Systems
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fiogf49gjkf0d Does anyone really have the resources, and the patience, and the evolved audio/musical discrimination to develop a 4 or 5-way FR speaker system from scratch, including each and every driver? I can actually see a "theoretical" benefit in using field coils for "fine tuning", but the reality is, we mostly just eff around with drivers that other people make, and we never really get everything optimized before we simply settle for something. I have not heard the speakers under discussion, but I have had too much experience trying to "de-construct" and "reverse engineer" good-sounding drivers, and the harder I try, the more impressed I am with anything that actually "works" in any given installation, and the more willing I am to gratefully accept anything I find that "works" for me, regardless of how it came into being. Meanwhile, I take with salt claims that use "statistics" or "historical legitimacy references" to promote expensive speakers, which, in my experience, are more likely to be truly unbearable than carefully-chosen boom boxes, albeit lowering one's expectations does create a buffer here. Yes, it is VERY expensive to actually develop good-sounding drivers and speakers from scratch. But is anyone really doing it, and are the super-expensive drivers really the solutions they purport to be? I sure wish someone had something really worthwhile to even say on this subject, and, more to the point, I hope to hear the results if anything truly worthwhile is available, at any price.
Paul S
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