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In Reply to: RE: Mye for Acoustat? posted by Mendel on February 24, 2015 at 06:26:13
Not sure they'd really benefit all that much from more rigid framing. It's not like you have some huge moving mass working against itself and rocking back and forth. I spoke to Mike Savuto once about more rigidly fixing them. He told me that he'd essentially done that with his Monitor 8's that he put together by fixing the top of them to the ceiling and spiking the bottoms. He told me that he felt like they did not sound as good that way. Would sure want to do some kind of proof of concept before making that kind of investment in custom stands.
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Not sure they'd really benefit all that much from more rigid framing.
I find the contrary to the case with my Sound Lab U-1s which employ a rigid steel frame for the cores.
It's not like you have some huge moving mass working against itself and rocking back and forth.
At low frequencies, you most certainly are trying to move large volumes of air. Mass counts.
So, not to argue, but I'd say the jury is still out on the rigidity of the frames question. I mean does SL use steel because it might somehow be cheaper than wood joinery, and have you ever heard the SLs with wooden frames? You may well be right - I don't know. I will concede on your other point. I hadn't really considered it from that point of view. I was coming more from the pistonic action of voice coils. Although the air being moved is spread out over quite a large area compared to traditional speakers. Would be fun to experiment and find out. Unfortunately, that ain't me. I've got a near-mint pair of Monitor 4's and am not about to mess with that.
I mean does SL use steel because it might somehow be cheaper than wood joinery,It is substantially more expensive. The $45k U-1s use the same cores as the $31k A-1s . I'm not entirely sure, but the U-1s may also incorporate the several thousand dollar "hot rod" enhancement to the backplates, so the difference may not be quite as much as it seems.
and have you ever heard the SLs with wooden frames?
Yes.
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Edits: 02/25/15
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