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In Reply to: Where audio is concerned, I'm a polygamist. posted by tinear on April 27, 2007 at 15:06:50:
Cut wood for driver size...Enjoy the music. Oh man I can't wait to slop my Goodmans up! Go on ebay and buy a pair of Radio Shack 1197 drivers for pretty cheap. Get a 4x8 sheet of ply, cut in half, mount speakers prop against a wall and be prepared to hear percussive brush work on jazz like you have never heard before. The big flaw with the rat shack drivers is that nasty honk. It can be tamed with the fiber glass wrapped around the whizzer tweak and some rope caulk around the basket of the driver. It ain't perfect but I will be scrwed and tatooed if I have heard a pair of speakers under 100$ that can be dynamic, fast and offer out of the box vocal performance.
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How much have you spent on speakers and speaker exploits in the last 18 months? Just give it to me in number of digits, high or low.
buy vintage speakers on eBay that will astound you.
Old Design Acoustic, EPI, AR, and, I think the best bargain of them all, KLH. These companies all produced fine speakers that reproduced much of the frequency range and are "natural" sounding, though each has its own signature.
Gotta go with you there, Scott!I have been listening to my Adire Audio Dipole kit- the DDR, for a few months now and keep dropping my jaw on the floor!
Too bad adire removed the kit from their 'site- at least I copied the PDF for future use/reference.
Dipole rules, IMHO, even with all the deficiencies inherit to them. The music has been sweet so far!
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