In Reply to: RE: 1/2" MDF? posted by genungo on August 7, 2014 at 16:01:10:
there has to be better than what i've owned so far though. NHT makes great resonance free cabinets well under $1,000, but superzeros lack resolution and classic 3s have aluminum resonance issues, so i'm not a fan of their drivers while mission, celestion and especially energy had great drivers, but lousy cabinets.
if i was a conspiracy theorist, i'd say there's a conspiracy to keep anyone from making a truly reference pair of monitors that's quite possible under $1,000. it would have only cost energy maybe another $50, if that, to make beefier cabinets for their RC-10s which had AWESOME drivers. if i still had them, i thought about bonding 3/4" MDF with front baffle radiusing to the top bottom and sides at least. the sides of those speakers sound almost like plastic boombox speakers when you rap them.
superzeros are still under $300 i think. NHT could EASILY just upgrade the tweeters in those for under $100 and make speakers that have real resolution.
if i had the money, i'd start my own speaker line based around the best bang for buck possible, probably adopting the newer aluminum cabinets tech and use premium drivers and components with lower profit margins than the big guys.
sonnance is able to make 6 1/2" 2 ways with 1" thick cabinets! it doesn't cost $500 to upgrade something like that with premium drivers unless you're using seas excel or something.
If it's ported, it's distorted.
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- RE: 1/2" MDF? unacceptable! i'd get superzeros again before that - budget minded 17:07:53 08/07/14 (11)
- RE: "I'd get superzeros again" - genungo 19:33:40 08/07/14 (10)
- RE: "I'd get superzeros again" - merid 03:31:07 08/10/14 (0)
- i'd rather improve on superzeros though - budget minded 15:26:12 08/08/14 (8)
- RE: i'd rather improve on superzeros though - longtimequadowner 18:42:50 08/08/14 (4)
- RE: i'd rather improve on superzeros though - merid 13:12:36 08/10/14 (2)
- RE: i'd rather improve on superzeros though - longtimequadowner 15:40:00 08/10/14 (1)
- RE:Improved bass response for Absoloute Zero - genungo 17:23:47 08/10/14 (0)
- superzero woofers aren't really the issue, it's the tweeters - budget minded 14:00:47 08/09/14 (0)
- A semi-serious problem with the Superzeros... - genungo 16:41:26 08/08/14 (2)
- i never had a problem with Superzero bass - budget minded 14:10:12 08/09/14 (1)
- To each his own, I guess... (nt - genungo 14:32:15 08/09/14 (0)