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In Reply to: Go for it! posted by Don T on November 23, 2006 at 05:24:38:
"...has little/nothing to do with how "good" listeners will percieve your speaker to sound in the first place...."This is IMO the first cardinal sin of designing high fidelity audio equipment. To be high fidelity, faithful to the original, doesn't mean it is directed to please the crowd, it means to sound as indistiguishable as possible from what it is trying to reproduce or recreate. Dr. Floyd Toole researches pleasing the crowd for Sydney Harman. Cheevers had theories about pleasing the crowd in his paper. (John Curl tries to please himself and hopes the crowd will be pleased too.) Is there a difference? Absolutely. You might like Monet or Picasso. You might not. Could a reproduction convince you that it is the original? You'd probably want to see them side by side to compare them, possibly without being told which is which. That's the equivalent of a live versus recorded DBT. Possible but difficult with a single instrument or small group, almost imposssible with a symphony orchestra, worthless with any recording deliberately manipulated to produce what is believed to be a commercially marketable sound or where any of the instruements were electronically amplified by their nature (and not worth the effort IMO anyway.)
"Secondly any costs or design considerations required for this "flexibility" will likely detract from the systems overall quality/performance for the dollar. Nothing is free"
Solving a problem costs money. The alternative is to build more of what is already out there. Why bother hitting your head against the same brick wall as everyone else has. If you are already satisfied with what the market has to offer, a new speaker which is only one more of countless minor variants won't attact anyone's attention. Why should it? You can already buy one. The only difference is how much it costs, how much space it takes up, whether its visual appearance pleases you, and which of its quirks or idiosyncracies you think you can live with. To be better, it will have to be different, be innovative, but will that cost more money? Depends on a lot of factors about how and where it is manufactured, in what quantity, etc. Will people like it? Want it? Buy it? At least to the degree that it will make a profit? Nobody really knows but I'd bet against it. That's why I've never considered it in the past. I don't like throwing away money on ventures which will likely fail? Not only don't most audiophiles likely want more accurate sound systems, their ignorance and lack of experience with live music where reproduced accuracy means something is generally so limited or non existant, they wouldn't know it if they heard it anyway.
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