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drf wrote:
 Just curious.
It seems to me that whenever someone asks for advice/help because they want to learn how to design speakers, or more importantly they wish to design there own speakers, the advice is nearly always to start with a "proven design". Some of my concerns with this advice is as follows, please know that I by no means am saying this is a Bad route, just not always the best.
1, Some of the "proven designs" out there aren't always that good. There seems to be some touted designs that not everyone agrees is worth the effort.
2, Assuming the "proven design" is decent, then getting the best results first time isn't exactely conducive to the average learning process (like trial and error giving an imperical understanding).
3, Just about anyone can buy/download plans and build a half decent set of speakers, unfortunately this will not help with understanding the physics behind why they sound decent.
I guess it depends on the apptitude of the person who wants to learn and what they hope to acheive from the diy route if starting with a proven design is the best option.
anyones thoughts? |
Most people who come on here are looking for advice about building a pair of speakers. In this thread I didn't get the feeling that the OP was looking to learn how to design speakers, only to build them. IME a lot of people starting out who want to build speakers go to a place like the Madisound or PE website, pick out drivers that either they think look nice and fit in their budget, or drivers that are used in some commercial speaker they like and then want to simply put them into a box and use minimal effort to build a crossover or want to purchase a generic crossover to use.
If someone wants to learn how to design speakers then I agree with you, building a proven design doesn't make sense, especially if it is something like a 3 way speaker using metal cone drivers that has a complicated crossover that has to deal with a lot of cone breakup in the metal cone woofers and mids. A two way using some paper or poly cone drivers may be a good place to start.