Re: [LAU] monitor specifications

From: <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jan 08 2012 - 06:04:38 EET

My understanding is that you actually only need .1 watt RMS for a sound to be audible ... but could be wrong on that.

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---- gene heskett <gheskett@email-addr-hidden> wrote: 
> On Saturday, January 07, 2012 03:26:46 PM Fons Adriaensen did opine:
> 
> > On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 01:34:15PM +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote:
> > > OTOH, if you've got much time and a lot of money, you might build a
> > > better monitor than there's on the market. Trail and error is how
> > > people from rich families build some good pro-audio gear. The VM-1
> > > microphone is such an example. Patience and money in the beginning is
> > > all you need. You even don't need knowledge that much.
> > 
> > The last sentence made my day when reading it during lunch.
> > 
> > Sure, if you have plenty of money you can hire someone with the
> > required knowledge. And if you have plenty of time you can re-
> > invent and rediscover all the design theory, psycho-acoustics,
> > material science and measurement techniques accumulated over
> > the past 80 years or so, and everything else it takes to create
> > a good studio monitor or mic.
> > 
> > There are probably some good speaker designs available on the
> > net, and building one of those may be a rewarding exercise.
> > But even in that case you're just doing maybe 5% of the work,
> > the rest has been done by the designers of the components you
> > use. It's like building your own car using an existing engine,
> > gearbox, etc. and just putting in your own pair of seats and
> > adding a layer of paint. Nice if you enjoy doing that, but a
> > waste of time otherwise.
> > 
> > Ciao,
> 
> Fons, are you perchance old enough to remember the "Karlson" speaker 
> cabinet designs from back in the late 50's?
> 
> This was an attempt to take the Electrovoice corner horn and fold it all up 
> into a more normal looking box that actually took nearly 2 sheets of 3/4" 
> plywood to build.  As a late teenager I built the 12" sized version of it, 
> and while I can't say it didn't "color" the sound, the thing I can recall 
> was that it was extremely efficient with a University 6201 12" coax speaker 
> in it.  5 watts could loosen the putty in the rooms windows.  The 12" sized 
> version also seemed to have an LF cutoff in the 45hz range but that was 
> probably the speakers blame as it cone wasn't exactly softly suspended.
> 
> If any of those survive today, what do the experts think of them now, 
> nearly 60 years later?
> 
> Cheers, Gene
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