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In Reply to: RE: Drivers are the LEAST part of a typical speaker's cost posted by hahax@verizon.net on March 3, 2025 at 20:49:48:
On one hand, any driver in any box will make sound, any driver on any horn will make sound. Drivers have never been better for less cost.
And, with the computer aided tools with measurements available now and what one can find on line, it has never been easier to make something pretty good.
Going beyond pretty good is the hard part, the part where there are still discoveries to be made and times where one needs to measure the entire radiation sphere around the speaker not just on axis. We also hear aspects of how sound was radiated near the origin too. There is a real reason people used to put fuzz around the tweeter etc, why single drivers were popular.
It's true, you don't hear measurements but when building a speaker, proper measurements show you what the speaker is doing. I have never seen a case where with of variations on a loudspeaker the one that looked less faithful to the signal in the measurements was better sounding.
So far as cost, speakers have a cost to build, market and sell and then for some there is the very very much different selling price.
It is a fact that a high price suggests high quality or value and in commercial sound of some top brands, there is a saying "you just can't pay more for sound that good" and it would appear there is something like that in hifi too where the price and exotica infers quality as much or more than what one hears with eyes closed..
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- RE: Drivers are the LEAST part of a typical speaker's cost - tomservo 10:21:32 03/04/25 (1)
- George Short (North Creek) once said . . . - Brian H P 12:39:59 03/04/25 (0)
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