593aac@houxa.UUCP (S.JOHNSON) (11/04/85)
One of the side effects of enjoying the hobby of speaker building is that after a while you end up with more speakers than you know what to do with. My wife came up with a great idea. I could sell a pair of bookshelf speakers I had made, and use the money to buy drivers to complete my "ultimate" set. Sounded like heresy to sell a pair of speakers I had labored over so dutifully, but the realities of the situation won out, and I placed an ad in the local paper. It was rather incredible that after a few calls I could PREDICT what the callers were going to say! "What brand of speakers are they?" "Well actually, I built them myself." "Oh ....." "Yeah, but I carefully measured all the parameters of the drivers and hand tuned the boxes and crossovers to match. The boxes use special construction and damping techniques to control resonances. The crossovers are aspecial 24db per octave design, and all the coils are within 1% tolerance. The capacitors are mostly polypropylene film and also within 1%. The imaging and tonality are superb." "Huh?, anyway sounds OK, you said they have an ebony finish, is that solid ebony?" "No they're ebony veneer over high density flake board, it would cost about $700.00 to just buy enough ebony to make these mini-speakers." "Oh, too bad. How much do you want for them?" "I quote a price to cover my materials, and labor of about $1.00 per hour." "No that's way too much. I only want to spend about $100.00. Besides, Radio Shack sells BRAND NEW speakers for $29.00 each. CLICK!" Guess my next project will ahve to wait. Steve Johnson