On 1/7/12, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 01:34:15PM +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote: > >> OTOH, if you've got much time and a lot of money, you might build a >> better monitor than there's on the market. Trail and error is how people >> from rich families build some good pro-audio gear. The VM-1 microphone >> is such an example. Patience and money in the beginning is all you need. >> You even don't need knowledge that much. > > The last sentence made my day when reading it during lunch. > > Sure, if you have plenty of money you can hire someone with the > required knowledge. And if you have plenty of time you can re- > invent and rediscover all the design theory, psycho-acoustics, > material science and measurement techniques accumulated over > the past 80 years or so, and everything else it takes to create > a good studio monitor or mic. > > There are probably some good speaker designs available on the > net, and building one of those may be a rewarding exercise. > But even in that case you're just doing maybe 5% of the work, > the rest has been done by the designers of the components you > use. It's like building your own car using an existing engine, > gearbox, etc. and just putting in your own pair of seats and > adding a layer of paint. Nice if you enjoy doing that, but a > waste of time otherwise. Fons' comment got me looking - and I found this: http://www.speakerbuilding.com/content/1022/index.php Could be what you are looking for? James _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
