Two of the speaker manufacturers I most like - Living Voice and Audio Note - reckon that time alignment is crucially important. To this end they use 2-way speakers with very simple crossovers, and spend a lot of time matching each speaker (and each pair of speakers).
I don't know how easy to reproduce things yourself would be. Part of the benefit of buying 'off-the-shelf' speakers is the time they spend in R&D and fine-tuning. You might need a lot of equipment to reproduce the fine-tuning, and are you certain what to look for and measure? I can't help but think that it might be worth playing with a $500 unit, but spending 10x that (i.e. real money) might be risky - you may simply not be able to achieve what experienced speaker designers do. Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost cables http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31590 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
