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RE: Thanks Arthur!

Posted by DRCope (P) on August 7, 2007 at 17:03:08

In Reply to: RE: Thanks Arthur! posted by Artur on August 7, 2007 at 12:16:42:

Arthur,

You do get original drivers, crossovers, ports, stuffing, etc in the kits.

One critical area in which kit and factory speakers are differentiated is in the matching to a reference set of response curves.In the factory, this is done with the drivers and xo in the cabinets they will be shipped in. As you move up through the levels, the matching tolerance gets tighter and tighter, cumlinating in the Sogon speakers which are matched to within .1 dB (yes, 1/10th of 1 dB). This takes an inordinate amount of time and a large supply of parts to choose from. While the kit drivers and xo's are matched, they obviously are not matched in the cabinets they will end up in, and are not quite as tightly matched as the factory speakers as the difference can be swamped by variations in cabinets.

Building your own xovers using other parts and without the matching that goes into the kit sets will leave you a long way short of the actual kit speaker's performance.

One other point of differentiation that's beyond the kit builder's scope is the way the front baffle is mounted. The factory baffle is cut exactly the same size as the opening it goes into. Obviously it can't fit into the opening, right? Logical, but wrong. The temperature of the baffle is taken way, way down, shrinking it juuuust enough to fit with a very thin bead of glue. When it comes up to room temperature, you've got an insanely tight bond between all parts. Since the cabinet is very much INcluded in Audio Note's overall speaker design, rather than EXcluded and subdued as in most speakers, it matters.

At the end of the day, you get insanely great musical performance from Audio Note Kits. Don't let people freak you out about it.

Keep your ears and your mind open.

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