Maybe you also have good ears, Geoff.
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It's all relative Martin - what price to put on pleasure ;)
Lol - like Martyn, I thought that Harbeth speakers were sanely priced (ditto Spendor), compared with most 'high-end' speakers these days! Before I got my Tannoys, I had a pair of these: https://www.whathifi.com/spendor/sp100r2/review
12" drivers, in a huge box, for a stand-mount design, which I sat on Phase 4 Mana....
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/m45zyp.jpg
They rocked!! :hairmetal::hairmetal:
Marco.
Interesting and enjoyable video, but here was a bit of sales talk going on - especially the part where he says his drivers are better than anything you can buy off the shelf.
As for speaker designers that don't use software to design a speaker. That's not a speaker designer, that's a chancer or casual hobbyist.
I do agree that the human voice Is the best way to voice a speaker. I use the news channels and movies. A high quality recording of a familiar voice or voices would probably be the ultimate test.
Lol... Indeed. Somehow much of the best hi-fi equipment ever made, of any description, was produced in the pre-computer era. Brainpower and good judgement was enough at one time for building a lot of things - and very competently, too!
Marco.
I haven't got a clue how they designed crossovers pre-computer age. Like I said before, you'd have as much chance as winning the lottery, as you would blending two drivers perfectly through the crossover region without software. What most people don't understand Is a crossover Is designed to sum correctly at a certain listening height and distance. I'm afraid It's pretty much Impossible to do that without software.
But the point is, Matt, that some of the best sounding speakers ever made were produced during the pre-computer era, so clearly, the lack of such software didn't hold them back! ;)
I doubt my Tannoy Monitor Golds, produced in 1967, would've been built using computer software, and they sound stunningly good, as do many other (even older) vintage speakers.
Marco.