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In Reply to: RE: Yes and no... posted by stefan botes on September 9, 2015 at 03:55:40:
Stefan,
Bobby never bought a large stock of drivers unless he absolutely had to AFIAK. The most of any one driver I ever saw at the plant at any one time over the years(stretching over 20 years of which I probably made several dozen visits to Merlin) was probably a couple dozen pairs of Dynaudio Esotar tweeter (only because I think Dynaudio required such a minimum purchase quantity after they stopped offering their drivers to the public marketplace and Bobby had to buy them from Dynaudio directly). The last time I visited Bobby/Merlin (this past spring IIRC) I did not see any large stacks or inventory of drivers there.
He stuck with the drivers the TSM and VSM used over the years because he liked them and how they worked in the designs he had. For example, I know he was not a fan of the recent Scanspeak (ring radiator I think its called) tweeters. He did not like the Esotar2 as well. He did not always see something new (driver tech wise) as better.
I do think he hit a funk (in not developing a new speaker to add to the line up) during the past 7 or so years... many of us (friends in the trade and customers) repeatedly asked him about making a 3-way. The why that he did not do that was I think many fold (and not all business/market related).
Happy Listening,
Rich Brkich
Ownwer/Operator Signature Sound
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