spj@hou3c.UUCP (Stephen P. Johnson) (07/09/84)
I can heartily second the recommendation on the net for the Radio Shack Minimus 7's. I've been eyeing them closely for a couple years at the $49 price. At $29, they are a steal. I bought a pair, if I could afford it, I would buy another. They won't handle gobs of power or reproduce earthquake rumblings, but they have nice imaging. Some of you may remember a flurry of messages about speaker building about a year ago. Well, I've built a pair of honestly excellent speakers. The cost was $400 for materials, and about 150 hours of research and labor. Just a warning for those contemplating the same feat: stay away from Speakerlab drivers. It's true they publish Thiele-Small parameters, unfortunately there seems to be no relation between the published figures and those of the actual drivers. For example, the "identical" 10 inch drivers I bought had QTS of .29 and .41, making it impossible to obtain a matched response. The best sources of drivers that I am aware of are JBL, Dynaudio, Audax, SEAS, and Peerless, in roughly that order of quality. Has anybody else on the net built any speakers? I would enjoy exchanging experiences. Steve Johnson :