In Reply to: Re: Quality PA speakers for singing posted by Bill Fitzmaurice on February 7, 2006 at 07:14:10:
Bill makes a very, very good point. The advantage to modern speaker assembly(and modern reconing jobs) is that the materials are not deteriorated, the adhesives and insulations are MUCH better, and there are a few new manufacturing features that all help improve today's raw driver(vented pole pieces for instance, heatsinking bullet style pieces in the dust cap area also).
As to "building high quality PA speakers", yes, certainly, build them as best you can. I've done so for twenty years, and worked for Tom Danley for a number of years as well. I know fidelity can be had in prosound, I use it every time I take my system out. It may or may not happen by building separate speaker systems as you desire-some of the most common unavoidable(with most designs)degradations in sound quality come from adding more cabinets to the setup.
I would really recommend starting out with a pair of tops, a pair of subs, make them an active system(typically a 3 to 4 way), and see how that goes-remembering to ask specific questions about good designs and components. I already recommended a good starting point for a decent speaker design earlier.Best regards,
John
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