Sat Mar 19, 2016 10:50 pm
Speakers are actually very inexpensive to manufacture - it's the engineering and marketing that you pay for. Bose is the classic poster child for this. I, personally, don't own a single Bose product, and quite frankly, never will. They are masters at charging you maximum $$ for the smallest amount of physical product. Granted, their designs are clever, albeit, surprisingly deceptive. Their 901's for example, with the EQ module, are just a laughing riot in my opinion. Still, though, many people claim they are the best things ever.
The issue with speakers, though, is that what sounds good to one person, will sound bad to another. And what works in one environment, will not be best-suited for another. And, as such, no one speaker will ever suit everyone's needs. Still, though, I am very curious to pursue this endeavor for a while and see what I can come up with.
I mean, lots of organ manufacturers out there, such as Rodgers, Allen, Saville (unheard of these days), etc. all used very generic, basic speaker designs. What I'm beginning to realize is that these builders just used what was just a good, work-horse design. Nothing fancy.
Maybe it's time to change that.
I have a few ideas up my sleeve that I'm curious to try. It may take me a long time to get right, but this sounds like a fun job, so, at the very least, I'm willing to try and fail.