Hey Srajan, after reading your most recent "Cheese" feature, am I correct thinking that you're not giving out an email or website contact to those who want to follow up? I did follow your link to Herb Reichert's Totem review who really loved them while John Atkinson's measurements did not. So often that's how it goes with single-driver speakers, tubes and digital without filters. Given a sympathetic reviewer, all of it can garner praise while the test bench finds from minor to very serious faults. For us not that deeply involved, it's all quite confusing so I always take refuge in the Nelson Pass comment that we listen with our ears not through a scope. In any case, I wanted to thank you for publishing the Cees piece even if it didn't turn into anything more formal. It's always fun to learn about other approaches to speaker design especially when they are not from a basic DIYer but someone with credible engineering skills who even supplies us with comprehensive measurements. As you wrote, this project is certainly not alone in limiting a 2-way's crossover to just a high tweeter. Here I find it noteworthy that Cees whose commercial speaker uses a typical crossover now explores one without it. He clearly isn't dogmatic about it one way or the other which leaves me thinking that it's probably quite different listeners who would favour his Acelec versus this mystery box. Cheers, Thomas
Quite. I'm fond of remembering that Picasso was an expert draftsman before he became an abstract painter. To transcend or disregard the rules has a different tenor after one has learned and mastered the rules. By the same token, I think more of someone espousing zero feedback who has successfully experimented with various ways of feedback before rejecting it. And in some ways it's even more impressive when someone can craft successful product both ways. Most restaurants just serving one dish would quickly go out of business. The same applies to reviewers and forum posters. The more broadly varied their exposure and experience, the more useful their opinions. And you're correct, I can't publish a contact for the Dutch box unless I become responsible for potentially causing the furniture maker demand/supply problems. Should enough resourceful Dutchies still beat a path to his door, he can always turn them down or cite lead times that scare them off. Going global in this sector presupposes serious investments of time and money with no guarantees of success. I can fully appreciate why our woodworker doesn't want to go there. Having been there and done that, even my old boss Pat McGinty opted to return with Meadowlark v3 only as side hustle to his existing non-audio business. Keep things small and manageable so they remain fun is a good approach. Srajan
