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Re: SPC designs

OH NO!!!!! another one that is disrespecting self-taught DIY. The same DIY that actually built the audiophile hobby into what it is.

You know who Les Paul is? He was a high school dropout average student. He was a self-taught luthier and musician with 16 number 1 hits on the billboard top 40 from 1950 to 1954 and he made the world's most famous electric guitar the "Less Paul" There is a picture of les Paul's workshop guess what kind of speaker is hanging on the wall? A Lansing Iconic made by my boy James Martini aka James Lansing another self-taught speaker designer and not only did he design the cabinets and crossovers he designed the actual drivers he was the first speaker manufacturer to use permanent magnets on speakers until then everything was field coil drivers he was also first to use ribbon wire on voice coils and use high-speed voice coil winding techniques. The Lansing Iconic is the most iconic speaker in the world why? First to use permanent magnets and first to use ribbon voice coil wire high speed voice coil winding techniques and the Iconic was also the world's first studio monitor, and this was all in 1939!!!! The iconic also had the best response of any speaker on earth in its day. Not bad for a mechanic that taught himself how to build drivers and horns and then design speakers using the drivers he created and built. And he was 100% self-taught. So, I find it extremely funny that two of the most important people in the world when it comes to music and the production of music, and the reproduction of recorded music were both self-taught do it yourself guys. Les Paul is also responsible for overdubs "laying down two identical guitar tracks in different octaves" and for multitracking. Things that are still used in recording studios today 75 years after the great Les Paul did it first. Just like James Lansing manufacturing technics that are still being used today 95+ years !!!! after James Lansing did it for the first time. And that is only a glimpse into what these two self-taught men accomplished Not bad for a couple of self-taught DIY guys.

So, when you flippantly throw around terms like self-taught & DIY like they are inferior you make yourself look unknowledgeable. Where would you go to school to learn speaker design? I have never heard of speaker design university. Fact is no speaker designer in the history of speaker design went to speaker design school LOL!!!! All speaker designers I repeat all speaker designers in the history of speaker design have been self-taught. I can't believe you had no clue speaker designers were self-taught.

So now let's answer your loaded question. Yes, I am self-taught and proud to be self-taught. As far as where I have worked and what I have accomplished that is my personal business. Why are you trying to make it your business? I will tell you why you're trying to make it your business. You are asking because you feel you have lost a conversion and now you are upset so you're now asking me what you think would be loaded questions to try to disparage my abilities to know understand design and build speakers all of this so you can try to make yourself feel better about your inabilities and that is 100% your fault not mine so do not drag me in to your immature 2nd grade mind games Plus, you do not Santa to see you being naughty. It is so obvious that when people get irritated, they will start to attack and when they attack, they don't think and trap themselves into a corner and end up looking stupid. At that point in time its best for them to just stop so they do not embarrass themselves further.

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