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On 01/07/2012 09:02 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:

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> 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,

>

Hmm, not very promising responses thus far. I guess, I was leaner

towards the latter part of your response Fons: mainly putting the

cabinets together and fitting with some good quality existing components.
Looks like I have some more research to do in the feasibility of this

or perhaps there are something more rewarding jobs I could get my wiz of

a father-in-law to help out with in the Studio...
thanks everyone for the replies, I'll keep looking ino this
Brendan

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