What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.
Except for Bose, most of their design is in the marketing.
B.O.S.E - Bring Other Sound Equipment
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@wirestyle22 As far as resources, most of the guys (and a few gals as well) I know who do it are either self-taught, or took courses on electrical engineering, and figured it out from there. Good places to talk to people who know what they're doing are www.tapeheads.net, there's a few guys on www.headfi.org who know speakers, mostly as a byproduct of their obsession with headphones, and a decent place to get started is www.diyaudioandvideo.com. I personally learned what I know about electronics from pulling things apart and learning how to restore old tube stereos from some local and online people.
EDIT: One thing to note, speaker design as far as the cabinet goes is extremely understated. You get the wrong volume of air inside, by just a little bit, and it'll sound blown, or if you put speakers designed to be acoustic suspension in a cabinet that's set up for bass reflex.@brianlittlejohn LOL, so I'm not alone in thinking BOSE is awful stuff. I keep seeing old BOSE gear go for sky-high prices worthy of some really special stuff, and they sound awful.
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@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn LOL, so I'm not alone in thinking BOSE is awful stuff. I keep seeing old BOSE gear go for sky-high prices worthy of some really special stuff, and they sound awful.
No highs, no lows, must be Bose
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@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn LOL, so I'm not alone in thinking BOSE is awful stuff. I keep seeing old BOSE gear go for sky-high prices worthy of some really special stuff, and they sound awful.
Anyone in audio knows that Bose is the reference standard for the worst speakers sold. Every shop that I know (knew) used to keep Bose to show how bad speakers could sound and to open them up to show the shoddiest design and construction. Literally the worst "non free" speakers that money can buy.
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@scottalanmiller With the hot glue holding the multitudes of little 3-inch drivers in? Lol
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@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller With the hot glue holding the multitudes of little 3-inch drivers in? Lol
And all kinds of tubes inside the speak to make "reverb" on one channel and not the other. Some Bose aren't even STEREO!
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@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Messing with the crossovers for the custom speakers I finished not very long ago and goodness do these things sound awesome!! They're a full redesign of the legendary Acoustic Research AR-94SX speakers
What, not wall hanging?
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I made the sub boxes for my truck 15 years ago.. it was a pain figuring out the volume considering they couldn't just be normal squarish boxes.
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@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.
Except for Bose, most of their design is in the marketing.
B.O.S.E - Bring Other Sound Equipment
Always been a JBL fan personally
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@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.
Except for Bose, most of their design is in the marketing.
B.O.S.E - Bring Other Sound Equipment
Always been a JBL fan personally
Uh..... that doesn't go in any audiophile discussion. JBL isn't Bose but it's not even remotely audiophile either.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.
Except for Bose, most of their design is in the marketing.
B.O.S.E - Bring Other Sound Equipment
Always been a JBL fan personally
Uh..... that doesn't go in any audiophile discussion. JBL isn't Bose but it's not even remotely audiophile either.
Never claimed to be one. Not a world I've been in very much.
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@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.
Except for Bose, most of their design is in the marketing.
B.O.S.E - Bring Other Sound Equipment
Always been a JBL fan personally
Uh..... that doesn't go in any audiophile discussion. JBL isn't Bose but it's not even remotely audiophile either.
Never claimed to be one. Not a world I've been in very much.
Which, given some of my background, is quite unusual.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.
Except for Bose, most of their design is in the marketing.
B.O.S.E - Bring Other Sound Equipment
Always been a JBL fan personally
Uh..... that doesn't go in any audiophile discussion. JBL isn't Bose but it's not even remotely audiophile either.
Do B&W qualify?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.
Except for Bose, most of their design is in the marketing.
B.O.S.E - Bring Other Sound Equipment
Always been a JBL fan personally
Uh..... that doesn't go in any audiophile discussion. JBL isn't Bose but it's not even remotely audiophile either.
Do B&W qualify?
Yes. Even though BB sells them now. B+W go very high but have entry level too. Their too end speakers are $50K a pair!
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I really liked the old Klipsch Models.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.
Except for Bose, most of their design is in the marketing.
B.O.S.E - Bring Other Sound Equipment
Always been a JBL fan personally
Uh..... that doesn't go in any audiophile discussion. JBL isn't Bose but it's not even remotely audiophile either.
Do B&W qualify?
Yes. Even though BB sells them now. B+W go very high but have entry level too. Their too end speakers are $50K a pair!
Yeah, my friend and I were wondering if B&W tanked as a company since they made something they could sell at Best Buy...
Reminds me of Webroot - it was sold for the longest time (maybe still is) as an upsell at BB. I refused to use anything sold there, they mostly only sold/pushed the crap that was crap and had high margins.
It wasn't until I was at a SpiceCorp with Webroot giving a demo that I learned about their journaling feature and gave them a fair shake.. I like them a lot now.
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I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
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Check out Paradigm Reference for something awesome but affordable.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.
I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.
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Had my ceiling wired from builder, and threw up a 7.1, working on the .2 to piss off the neighbors. Some nice Polk 3 ways.
I still have to perfect the direction of some of them, but it's pretty freaking loud.
