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Opinion - Every audiophile should build at least 1 pair of speakers

I think everyone who does this, even just once, would be forever changed and become an improved music listener as well as equipment hobbyist.

Whether you build a single driver speaker like the LM-1S or the 2-way desktop LM-1 (designs are free) or any other kit from


I think you would find yourself with very different biases and understanding of how parts interact, how drivers work, and how much a good pair of speakers should cost, and most likely you would have a different opinion about what a good speaker sounds like.

Would you build world reference speakers for $50 a pair? Not likely at all, but when I see audiophiles argue over thousands of dollars in speaker cables and interconnects, I think to myself, their opinions and biases about where to spend their time and money would be forever changed if they built but a single pair of speakers.

Also, of course, building speakers is fun as hell, and a great project to introduce kids to electronics. Especially girls, we need more girls who grow up to be speaker makers, amp designers and audiophiles!

Best,


Erik


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asvjerry
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Good morning, Eric...*S*  And y'all...

I think I blew past the 'pair' minimum awhile back.  And I couldn't agree more, although one needn't go to quite the extreme that I have.  It's very satisfying to listen to something that one has made with their own hands, even if it's just assembling a kit of parts.  One gets a different perspective of the mechanisms, the circuits, and the enclosure that recreates the recreated illusions that we enjoy....

It IS all a dance of sub-atomic particles at the end of the day, after all.... ;)
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asvjerry
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Soundsreal....well, considering the plethora of offerings 'out there', I think we'd hardly notice an influx of 800...*L*

The similarities between one's personal audio equipment choices for the spaces they listen in and the complexities of various programs on one's personal computer type and the configurations within that....making these things 'coexist' with each other, without random violent hair removal....

I'm sometimes thrilled that any and either work as well as they do at all. *G*

...and no, Eric, you can't stop...this is one of those threads that should grow a life of it's own, expanding exponentially until the AG server goes *poof*. *L*  And then we can move on, like locusts, consuming terabytes in our path...

And everyone's scared of AI...

"All thee have to fear....is Me..." *LOL*  Or us.... ) 
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