kenjit
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| Speaker manufacturers or box manufacturers with off the shelf drivers? OTS drivers can be excellent, but you are limited to their parameters so it can be difficult if building a product family, as large volume companies do, that is "consistent".There are many OTS drivers on the market so there is no limitation of par... | |
| Speaker manufacturers or box manufacturers with off the shelf drivers? @rixthetrick Unfortunately, it isnt as easy as using a bit of steel in the cabinets. If it was, EVERY company would be doing it even in their cheap speakers. The ML1s are horribly overpriced. And get bad reviews. You should read the stereomojo rev... | |
| Speaker manufacturers or box manufacturers with off the shelf drivers? @millercarbon Now don’t get me wrong. I am all for mass loading. But 307 TONS!?!?!Whats wrong with that? Airplanes weigh a lot. So do rockets. We can not only build them but we can make them fly.Its not rocket science. Lastly, I’m surprised that y... | |
| Speaker manufacturers or box manufacturers with off the shelf drivers? Are you sure about that???it may need to be even thicker. Without trying it, hard to know. | |
| Speaker manufacturers or box manufacturers with off the shelf drivers? Why are most high end speakers manufacturers using mdf for their boxes?because its a cheap nasty material. Its good enough though for most folks. But some manufacturers think its not good enough and they use other materials. if mdf is used, do you... | |
| Vivid Audio alternatives another problem i have with vivid speakers is the fact thatthey have no cabinet diffraction but do have a very strongcabinet colloration due to viibrations, this may sbe confusing;what i mean is i hear a certain amount of warmt or hazzinessin the ... | |
| Speaker manufacturers or box manufacturers with off the shelf drivers? high end boxes are layers of dense materials from wood to carbon fiber to metalno. its mostly mdf. | |
| Speaker manufacturers or box manufacturers with off the shelf drivers? There are some brilliant speaker designers that can build excellent speakers using off-the-shelf parts at many price points. Anybody can do that. Its a matter of opinion if something is excellent. | |
| Is the B&W 802d3 a significant upgrade over the 804d3 + powerful sub? how are we supposed to know if its substantial? Only you would know that. Whose opinion matters, yours or ours? | |
| Is the B&W 802d3 a significant upgrade over the 804d3 + powerful sub? There will be difference otherwise nobody would buy the more expensive 802. The 802 uses a different cabinet and a turbine. its not just a difference down low. Kenjit ~Speaker expert and Perfectionist Audiophile guru | |
| ... sound batting and/or weighting speakers ... Physical, operational limitations on designs cannot be escaped through tweaking, weights, etc. A box is a box whether it costs 100 bucks or 10000 bucks. | |
| ... sound batting and/or weighting speakers ... It's a 13 pound speaker including drivers! That's what is causing it! There is no recourse for a design like that being driven at higher levels! so is the ls50. So are many bookshelf speakers. The blackthornes are $10k and weigh 12 pounds. | |
| Fritz Carrera BE review link! They are not innovative are they. Whats so special about them? They look just like every other book shelf speaker out there. And horribly overpriced. $3~$4k! let me guess, are they made of mdf! | |
| Fritz Carrera BE review link! The fritz are not very good loudspeakers. | |
| Best bookshelf loudspeakers under 10,000 for the pair elac debut 2. Not too expensive and award winning. |