[net.audio] Chrome Dome's Cousins and their Search for Loudspeakers

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