Re: [LAU] monitor specifications

On 01/07/2012 09:02 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> 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,
>

Hmm, not very promising responses thus far. I guess, I was leaner
towards the latter part of your response Fons: mainly putting the
cabinets together and fitting with some good quality existing components.

Looks like I have some more research to do in the feasibility of this
or perhaps there are something more rewarding jobs I could get my wiz of
a father-in-law to help out with in the Studio...

thanks everyone for the replies, I'll keep looking ino this

Brendan
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Received on Sun Jan 8 16:15:01 2012