I looked for internal photos. I found some. They told a tale.
Part of it’s charm is that the woofer design minutia has most of it done right. Which I’m willing to bet my last dollar that they simply copied those things according to how others have done it. That the woofer was a spec job on a costing sheet ---and they simply managed to make a good choice.
As the rest of the woofer and the rest of the whole package is average.
That those well done aspects of the woofer play out in clarity and quality in the mids and upper mids, and some other important parameters in the bass through mids range.
A lot of these design tricks and tweaks of importance, don’t really cost money to implement. the requirement is that the lore and knowledge has to be there, it has to be gone through, it has to be learned, sweated over, intellect and vision applied, all of that.
What is upsetting to those who sweat their lives away creating these moves toward perfection, is that most off shore aspects will..er..simply copy those efforts, but not really have much understanding of the very why of them.
And then, with their cheap labour and better overhead, steal the market from the people who did all the actual hard and heavy lifting parts.
Which means variable outcomes, and then the next generation of product from them can very well be worse as they don’t know what they are doing the minutia dance for, or what the minutia means, or even be aware that the minutia is there at all. Just mouthing the words of a foreign language.
Part of it’s charm is that the woofer design minutia has most of it done right. Which I’m willing to bet my last dollar that they simply copied those things according to how others have done it. That the woofer was a spec job on a costing sheet ---and they simply managed to make a good choice.
As the rest of the woofer and the rest of the whole package is average.
That those well done aspects of the woofer play out in clarity and quality in the mids and upper mids, and some other important parameters in the bass through mids range.
A lot of these design tricks and tweaks of importance, don’t really cost money to implement. the requirement is that the lore and knowledge has to be there, it has to be gone through, it has to be learned, sweated over, intellect and vision applied, all of that.
What is upsetting to those who sweat their lives away creating these moves toward perfection, is that most off shore aspects will..er..simply copy those efforts, but not really have much understanding of the very why of them.
And then, with their cheap labour and better overhead, steal the market from the people who did all the actual hard and heavy lifting parts.
Which means variable outcomes, and then the next generation of product from them can very well be worse as they don’t know what they are doing the minutia dance for, or what the minutia means, or even be aware that the minutia is there at all. Just mouthing the words of a foreign language.