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In Reply to: Affordability in the Hobby posted by mark.korda@myfairpoint.net on February 7, 2024 at 15:10:17:
The cost to buy exotic vs the cost of the parts in them is one of the stronger motivations to DIY.
Unfortunately to varying degrees people associate high price with high performance as the price infer's there is something valuable there.
After one has taken many expensive electronic things and loudspeakers apart, one see's that can be an illusion like other marketing images used to justify a high price.
Also, it has never been easier to take meaningful measurements in the design process which can guide you or at least tell you what quadrant your compass is pointing.
A real problem especially with building loudspeakers is everything you change makes a difference. The hard part is telling what changes to a loudspeaker improve all the recordings and not selected ones AND the fact that having put all the effort into them, makes you more likely to overlook flaws.
A danger with colored systems is that you may change your musical tastes around what your system can do best. This doesn't matter individually but is a bad path if your trying to make speakers that are signal faithful and work well with all types of music and recordings (or for other people to use).
As a DIY'r myself, i would urge anyone interested to investigate this, build a subwoofer to start with, they are the simplest speaker to make and places like parts express even sell kits.
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Follow Ups
- That is an issue - tomservo 06:39:58 03/17/24 (1)
- Especially true for tube gear - Freo-1 17:10:45 03/24/24 (0)
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