Re: Building my own speakers - Quest

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Re: Building my own speakers

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Posted by Quest on May 27, 1999 at 09:09:44

In Reply to: Building my own speakers posted by Chuck on May 27, 1999 at 08:28:15:

No Chuck,

The answer is not as simple as slapping in some driver units onto a wooden box and make them sing like a million bucks! The reality is how you can make everything (driver units, crossovers, cabinets, internal sound absorbing materials, etc.) to compliment each other and be able to obtain desirable effects.

Certainly you may say that a lot of factory made speakers are, in fact, using some famous driver units from Focal, SEAS, KEF, Dynaudio, etc. Yes, that is true. But then will you be able to make it sound just as good with these units and so on? Bet not!!!

Little to be known is that approx 50~70% of the cost of the speaker goes into lab tests such as "tweaking", tuning, and so on.
THis is the part where amateurs needs to work harder on due to the lack of understanding, skills and instruments to work with. I admit I'm as naive as any end users out there.

Bose is a commercial product, we don't talk much about it. Similarly for Cerwin-Vega, DCM, and the popular line in JBL. Of course, I bet you have not encounter the Pro line in the audio industry yet, brand names such as JBL, Altecs, Celestion, Sony (U haven't seen nothing yet!!! a Woofer unit costing 3 grandUS!!!) and so on.

Buying a speaker building mags certainly provides you a ticket to the DIY part of speaker building community but that doesn't necessary portray the reality part of economy and technology of speaker making. Afterall, high end manufacturers achieved technical excellence with their speakers costing many times more than DIY units and still sounds better means that we don't have the resource and the technical background to back us up.

Afterall, B&W, Celestion , VonScheikert and so on pays their Engineers top dollars to learn and investigate about speaker making/tuning and money is well spent.

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Try Swan speaker kits on SpeakerBuildermag (nt) - Quest 10:31:21 05/27/99 (0)

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Re: Building my own speakers - Quest 09:09:44 05/27/99 (1)

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