Speakers Finished

JR North fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Wondering: 1) Why would you post that in a metalworking .sig? 2) Why does it take anyone 35 years to finish a couple of speaker enclosures?

They look nice, and I'm sure they sound nice. But Wh???

LLoyd

Nice work...

I'm still running the EV Sentry IV with 511B's on top

My dear Crom! Bondo, stain, and poly? my heart...my heart...

-- When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake. -- Stephanie Barron (Something for the Powers That Be to remember, eh?)

I guess you missed the page with the 75 oz magnet woofers.... LOL

For the same reason no one bothers to finish fixing up their house until they're ready to sell it... Plus, they proly sounded great without the veneer.... LOL

Good show!

Don't see too many 15" woofers these days, except in these criminally negligent fukn boomcars..... These days, in home systems, a woofer is.... 8"??? WTF??? Started by Bose, I think.... LOL

But here's sumpn I always wondered: In a speaker, doesn't the midrange carry most of the "acoustical content"? Ergo the wattage??

I always thought the speaker enclosure should have multiple midrange drivers, a la, in fact, the ole Bose 901's.

Are your woofers as good as, say, JBL's?? A 75 oz magnet sounds perty ossum!

I went on an audio ng, apropos of my disgust with the sound of almost every home stereo I've heard, wrt old AR3a or KLH or Rectilinear systems, and axed, What would you have to pay today to get the equivalent sound of AR3a speakers..... which in the '70's mighta run $250 for the pair.

Answer: $2,000, minimum.

Goodgawd, and AR3a's back then, were really "basic" bookshelf-type speakers.

Cars are now 50% heavier than they were in the 70's, and are just now eke'ing up to the mpg's of my ole Datsun 510..... WTF???

We are de-evolving, dats what.

Correct. That's why the 375 drivers in my SR8 JBL speakers have a 28 pound magnet. (They're a horn, not a coned speaker)

Harold

Mine are still bare plywood after 30 years.

jsw

"Jim Wilkins" fired this volley in news:jq7g6q$7sf$1 @dont-email.me:

Yeah... I have a couple of "bookshelf" speakers like that. But-- they were never INTENDED to be finished, and never will be.

I don't know... I guess I just like to do a job all the way through in one stint.

Lloyd

"Existential Angst" fired this volley in news:4fc6e711$0$1220$ snipped-for-privacy@cv.net:

I say, "Bring back the 'Sweet 16'!"

(remember that one?)

Lloyd

$1

I have actual bookshelves like that. After 30 years.

Braggart! ;)

-- Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

On Wed, 30 May 2012 17:25:45 -0700, JR North wrote: ...

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28 POUNDS???????? Holy shit...... Like the ole Altec Lansing Voice of the Theatre jobbies??

You lucky dog....

JBL = Junky But Loud - from a sound pro friend of mine.

And expensive.

Ya, the 15"ers move some serious air, but need to be cranked to work

*really* well. The midrange do carry a big chunk of the range, but don't need to be very heavy or complicated, and don't need alot of power, as the frequency range is much higher. The crossover network limits the range the speakers have to carry. JR

Got a pair of Realistic Mach II 's downstairs- another jewel in the speaker world. JR

The interlacing of project experiences. JR