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RE: Thanks Arthur!

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In Reply to: RE: Thanks Arthur! posted by Derek on August 04, 2007 at 20:03:29

Hi Guys,
Nice discussion any way ..;-)
I'm struggling with my self with decision, to buy or not to buy AN drivers and build cabinet by my own and create appropriate crossover..

Every were in internet guys from AN or sellers AN product says that Kit will be not equal to commercial version of AN speakers because of specific tests, measurements and tunings which are done in AN factory.

Does it mean that all kits components, does not met rigorist requirements ??
If so all kits component are more less rubbish ??? (sorry for rough sentence�)

At which point kit can be worst than ready product ??
Drivers, crossover, cabinet, final tuning. ???
If crossover, cabinet, final tuning etc. make difference that�s is ok. I believe that AN has knowledge to do that perfectly and that is absolutely ok..
But if They sells defective (which do not meet requirements) drivers that is scam �

From my point of view if you will get orginal drivers, put a lot afford to perfectly copy cabinet and create crossover according to original one you must get this same sound !!!

What do you guys think about this ???;-)

PS. Sorry for my English , I hope you see my point..;-).

Regards,
Artur

Follow Ups:

RE: Thanks Arthur! - DRCope 17:03:08 08/07/07 (1)
Arthur,

You do get original drivers, crossovers, ports, stuffing, etc in the kits.

One critical area in which kit and factory speakers are differentiated is in the matching to a reference set of response curves.In the factory, this is done with the drivers and xo in the cabinets they will be shipped in. As you move up through the levels, the matching tolerance gets tighter and tighter, cumlinating in the Sogon speakers which are matched to within .1 dB (yes, 1/10th of 1 dB). This takes an inordinate amount of time and a large supply of parts to choose from. While the kit drivers and xo's are matched, they obviously are not matched in the cabinets they will end up in, and are not quite as tightly matched as the factory speakers as the difference can be swamped by variations in cabinets.

Building your own xovers using other parts and without the matching that goes into the kit sets will leave you a long way short of the actual kit speaker's performance.

One other point of differentiation that's beyond the kit builder's scope is the way the front baffle is mounted. The factory baffle is cut exactly the same size as the opening it goes into. Obviously it can't fit into the opening, right? Logical, but wrong. The temperature of the baffle is taken way, way down, shrinking it juuuust enough to fit with a very thin bead of glue. When it comes up to room temperature, you've got an insanely tight bond between all parts. Since the cabinet is very much INcluded in Audio Note's overall speaker design, rather than EXcluded and subdued as in most speakers, it matters.

At the end of the day, you get insanely great musical performance from Audio Note Kits. Don't let people freak you out about it.

Keep your ears and your mind open.
- RE: Thanks Arthur! - profbrookes 04:08:59 08/08/07 (0)
  That's also how I understand it.
  
  Fortunately for me, I was able to buy a set of factory made speaker cabinets from Peter to go with my Kit03 speakers - and boy do they sound good!
  - My speaker kit build (Open in New Window)

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