My understanding is that you actually only need .1 watt RMS for a sound to be audible ... but could be wrong on that. -- david gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community ---- gene heskett <gheskett@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday, January 07, 2012 03:26:46 PM Fons Adriaensen did opine: > > > 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. > > > > Ciao, > > Fons, are you perchance old enough to remember the "Karlson" speaker > cabinet designs from back in the late 50's? > > This was an attempt to take the Electrovoice corner horn and fold it all up > into a more normal looking box that actually took nearly 2 sheets of 3/4" > plywood to build. As a late teenager I built the 12" sized version of it, > and while I can't say it didn't "color" the sound, the thing I can recall > was that it was extremely efficient with a University 6201 12" coax speaker > in it. 5 watts could loosen the putty in the rooms windows. The 12" sized > version also seemed to have an LF cutoff in the 45hz range but that was > probably the speakers blame as it cone wasn't exactly softly suspended. > > If any of those survive today, what do the experts think of them now, > nearly 60 years later? > > Cheers, Gene > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> > When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. > -- Dylan Thomas > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
