What a knowledgeable person can do

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http://home.hetnet.nl/~geenius/diary_final.html

Looks like they should sound as good as they look.

Comments?

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Kalman Rubinson Mar 22, 6:27 pm show options

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On 22 Mar 2005 18:04:10 -0800, "still learning"



<desks...@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>http://home.hetnet.nl/~geenius­/diary_final.html

>Looks like they should sound as good as they look.


>Comments?



Hard to judge the graphs without captions/details.
OTOH, the speakers have style, fwiw.

Kal


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Hmmmm, I can't remember ever hearing a speaker that had response graphs
that good, sounding bad.

Perhaps if magaazines like SP would talk about things like DIY
speakers, and maybe even review some once in awhile, more people could
be enticed into audio as a hobby.

Let people know that there are some good and some bad kits out there,
and when they're good like say the Linkwitz Orion, they are damn good.

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On 22 Mar 2005 22:03:38 -0800, "still learning"
<deskst49@peoplepc.com> wrote:

>Hmmmm, I can't remember ever hearing a speaker that had response graphs
>that good, sounding bad.

If you say so. I cannot interpret the graphs without information
about the conditions under which they were made.

>Perhaps if magaazines like SP would talk about things like DIY
>speakers, and maybe even review some once in awhile, more people could
>be enticed into audio as a hobby.

Unlikely. There's AudioXpress for that.

>Let people know that there are some good and some bad kits out there,
>and when they're good like say the Linkwitz Orion, they are damn good.

No argument about the Linkwitz stuff but I think you are mistaken
about the demographics which underly editorial policies. Note how
even AudioXpress is the residual of multiple DIY publications.

Kal

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Kalman Rubinson Mar 23, 9:07 am show options

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On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 05:22:44 -0800, "Richard Crowley"



<rcrowl...@xprt.net> wrote:
>"still learning" wrote ...
>> Perhaps if magaazines like SP would talk about things
>> like DIY speakers, and maybe even review some once
>> in awhile, more people could be enticed into audio as
>> a hobby.

>The advertisers (likely their major source of revenue)
>likely wouldn't like that.



Nope. It's the readers who don't generally like that.
Sure, there are many who do want to see such things (I among them) but
that's not Stereophile's role. In fact, if there was a real market
for such a publication, there would be one.

Kal


There is audioXpress which is all about DIY. It doesn't do nearly
enough in the way of reviews however.
IMO exposure from magazines like SP and S&V would go a long way towards
promoting the hoby of DIY and audio in general.

To be fair, at least part of the problem with DIY reviews is the amount
of time the reviewers are likely to have a given piece of equipment.
Since these are coming from thew manufacturer, but usually from
vendors, who want their stuff back ASAP. I think it would make good
sense for driver manufacturers, (in the case of speakers) to get behind
promoting reviews of their kits, in every kind of audio magazine. It
would very likely help sales of both the kits and the magazines doing
the reviews.

Surewly comapnies like SEAS, Danish Audio, and the others could afford
to build a system or two to supply to reviewers.