"trotsky" wrote in message
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Bob Morein wrote:


We can't assume that Greg's speakers are better than some of the cheap
stuff
available -- the new little Kefs, the NHT Super Zeros, or whatever
represents that class today. While it's true that the large volume
makers
count every scrap of wire, they usually have the benefit of Harmon
International's speaker lab, with turntable and MLSSA, and the Canadians
have their counterpart. Other small makers have their own woodshops and
spend months turning out cabinets with minor variations. This, the
tuning
procedure, has been ridiculed by Greg as unnecessary to a person as
"lucky"
as him.



Your audio history is a little weak, Bob Morion. Paradigm used to brag
about the use of DBTs at the National Research Center of Canada, but for
some reason they don't do that anymore.

I haven't mentioned DBTs once in regard to your speakers. It's not an issue
for me.

In fact, all they do is rely on
one guy, Scott Bagby, who really is a good desiger.

Yes, he actually designs speakers.
You do not.
You threw a couple Chinese drivers in a box, and pronounced yourself lucky.

Except Paradigm
cuts all the usual corners that one has to do to mass produce a speaker,
and the result is what it is.

The truth is, common sense goes a long way in making a good sounding
speaker.

Well sure it does, Greg. Except you didn't design the speakers. You just
threw the drivers in a box.
Scott designs speakers. He tries many variations of cabinet, crossover
components, drivers, etc.
He MODIFIES drivers per need of the design.
You picked parts out of a catalog and screwed them together with a power
screwdriver.
But in reality, you're screwing the customer.

I see a lot of gimmicks and bad ideas in speaker manufacture,
but not a lot of common sense.
But how would you know, Greg? You've never designed a speaker.
You did what a hobbyist would do on a rainy afternoon, nothing more.

[snip Quentin Tarantino]

Greg, speakers are not designed by analogy.
They can be tuned by analogy.
You didn't do the work. You claim you were lucky, and you're out to screw
the customer.

I don't think I'm going to allow that to happen.

(slight satiric modification of the below text should be noted)
You remind me of a bit in Bukowski's first novel, "Post Office", where a
coworker is needling him about wanting to write a novel, as if there was
some special process involved. "GO TO A SMALL ROOM AND SCREW TOGETHER
SPEAKERS," he tells
him. Some people were just put on this earth to be lame, I guess. Am I
getting warm, Bob?

From this distance, I cannot see if your air conditioning is working or not.

However, I observe that you screw your speakers together in a small room.