Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: One More Try: Speaker Building? Message-ID: <985@hound.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 21:18:00 EST Article-I.D.: hound.985 Posted: Thu Mar 7 21:18:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 06:31:20 EST References: <1171@ihuxi.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 33 [] I built two for-real speakers in my lifetime. One at school using the EE Depts woodshop. (woodshop? yes, woodshop) I copied the EV Aristocrat corner horn. Later as a poor struggling engineer I built a Karlson. the combination of the two together was super, if a bit imposing. I wouldn't do it again for several reasons. 1) I'm poor and no longer struggling as I'm too old and fat to struggle. 2) It's not worth it. You can buy better if you spend some time on your fanny researching. 3) Don't know for sure, but I'd guess the supply of good speakers is not what it used to be. 4) You can't trust what anyone says about how a speaker sounds. You need to hear it yourself. For one thing, it varies incredibly with the room. As a P&S student and young engineer I got to hear my aristrocrat (w/EV SP-12B) in a wide variety of environments, from Neurophysiology Lab to ancient Victorian mansion. From house trailer to Crack-in-the- Picture-window Modern. Every place it was different. Wow, I can still hear in my minds ear that Lab with all the glassware, marble floors and slate workbenches - and the Victorian mansion with central stairwell going up three stories. What bass! I only wish I'd had my AR-9's in those places. You're right. It is fun. I still remember it after 1/3 century. But few are interested in fun today - of that kind. Hope you find someone to work with, it helps. My Karlson was built with a Kelly Kollege student who lived in the apartment below. Little did we guess,when burning the midnight oil, that we would grow up to have a BTL vice president brand us in the company paper as loyal but slow. Ah, such is life. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg