DIY speaker building can be successful without knowing a lot about design if you stick to cloning existing speakers that you like. An individual can do this for himself without fear of a law suit.
Totem Forest uses a Swan driver???????
Is this true? Forest would be using some HiVi (Swan) drivers (stock or modified, I do not know), the D6.8 Bass-Midrange:
http://www.swanspeaker.com/product/htm/view.asp?id=57
A friend of mine had to get his changed 3 times in less than a year and the last time his dealer told him these were Made in China by a former Canadian-based company and - of the record - not necessarily of the higher grade (got to love a dealer who can shoot himself in the foot that way!!!!!!).
Does this mean that one could...for much less....or this is something frequent, these drivers are top notch anyway and there is nothing wrong with using Hivi drivers in $3,000 speakers?
http://www.swanspeaker.com/product/htm/view.asp?id=57
A friend of mine had to get his changed 3 times in less than a year and the last time his dealer told him these were Made in China by a former Canadian-based company and - of the record - not necessarily of the higher grade (got to love a dealer who can shoot himself in the foot that way!!!!!!).
Does this mean that one could...for much less....or this is something frequent, these drivers are top notch anyway and there is nothing wrong with using Hivi drivers in $3,000 speakers?