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"Wessel Dirksen" wrote:

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Well Joe D'Appolito is now Chief Engineer for Snell and had been
associated
with Usher prior. Personally I think DIY should not follow the market BUT
guess
what even the Adire and Madisound websites don't offer any 10-12 Hz kit
systems. Instead they seem to be emulating the current commerical products
of
which direct-mail Hsu and SVSubwoofers seem to offer as much performance
for a
given $ as the DIY systems.

I'm guessing that we've taken this thread as far as it needs to go.

Agreed, thanks for the last bit. Our opinions seem to stem from experience
from literally different sides of the spectrum. You have cited much
sub-woofer experience. My whole emphasis tends to be imaging where the
tweeter plays a pivital role. Individual driver performance among tweeters
IMO is quite diverse. Maybe you've done so, but if not, try a Seas Milleneum
or a Scanspeak D2904 sometime in a project, it's hard to go back.

Actually our experience isn't that different. I started out making full-range
and satellite systems. I held the same views you seem to have now but after
25-years of experience and evaluation of dozens of DIY systems and hundreds ot
commercially available products I just concluded that unless you have access to
measurement equipment the likelihood of getting a bertter product for less
money going roll-your-own or kit-your-own is unlikely. The sole exception is
subwoofers where all commercial products are effectively high-passed in some
way.

Let me expand on your opinion that the "tweeter" plays a big role in imaging.
The directivity of the tweeter and of its location will have an effect on
spatiality but for the most part good spatial rendition is first a mid-range
function.

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