Search found 37 matches

by SteveS57
Tue Jun 20, 2023 4:48 pm
Forum: DIY
Topic: 4 way Frankenstein high efficiency speakers
Replies: 71
Views: 72792
Great Britain

Re: 4 way Frankenstein high efficiency speakers

Good progress lindsay, will they be ready in time for Owston?
by SteveS57
Tue Oct 25, 2022 9:30 am
Forum: Bake-Offs
Topic: Owston, today - photos and reports, please!!
Replies: 3
Views: 7947
Great Britain

Re: Owston, today - photos and reports, please!!

We had a great weekend and thanks Paul, it was good to catch up at the wam show a few weeks back.
There's lots of pictures of this last weekends meet over on the audio talk forum if any one is interested.
We have booked next years meet, it's the weekend of 21st October '23 for your calendars

Cheers.
by SteveS57
Tue Oct 04, 2022 11:42 am
Forum: General Audio
Topic: The Return of the Wam Show
Replies: 24
Views: 6674
Great Britain

Re: The Return of the Wam Show

I really enjoyed the show, great to meet up with many friends too.
Roll on the audio talk meet up on the 22nd
by SteveS57
Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:22 am
Forum: General Audio
Topic: The Return of the Wam Show
Replies: 24
Views: 6674
Great Britain

Re: The Return of the Wam Show

I've got a room again, I wish it all the best, I'm sure the hotel will not be ideal, but getting suitable venues at reasonable cost is a challenge, let's see..
by SteveS57
Sun Dec 12, 2021 9:06 pm
Forum: General Audio
Topic: Speakers
Replies: 187
Views: 47421
Great Britain

Re: Speakers

Thanks, Steve, I listened to you at my own risk ;) I'll bring a pair to the next get together. I'll look forwards to that Paul, The last time we spoke was at Dave's place, his new premises, he tells me is not big enough to host a meet, which is a shame. But there will be another owston next year, b...
by SteveS57
Sun Dec 12, 2021 8:09 pm
Forum: General Audio
Topic: Speakers
Replies: 187
Views: 47421
Great Britain

Re: Speakers

I wanted a lighter driver for the new Cube because my gut feeling having owned Klipsch Heresy (and a conversation with Steve57 at a bake off) convinced me that a lighter driver would improve transient response / immediacy. It has taken time to find a lighter driver that would work well without a tr...
by SteveS57
Fri Dec 10, 2021 7:43 pm
Forum: General Audio
Topic: Speakers
Replies: 187
Views: 47421
Great Britain

Re: Speakers

Building speakers is great fun, and relatively easy-peasy (compared to other primary components). It'll likely take a long time (weeks) to tweak the sound to your own system, room and ears, but that's an intensely meaningful and enjoyable process. I would encourage anyone with ears, time, access to...
by SteveS57
Thu Dec 09, 2021 12:05 pm
Forum: General Audio
Topic: Speakers
Replies: 187
Views: 47421
Great Britain

Re: Speakers

What Peter didn't know about hi-fi, and loudspeakers in particular was probably not worth knowing, and he's a nice chap as well. * Before we had our owston meets, we where all on the World Designs forum and had meets at eggbrough power station and Witham on the A1 The 1st eggbrough meets made the m...
by SteveS57
Thu Dec 09, 2021 11:40 am
Forum: General Audio
Topic: Speakers
Replies: 187
Views: 47421
Great Britain

Re: Speakers

If the pleasure in DIY is coming up with something that is your own design, would self-assembly to someone else's instructions really count? Thats a good point, but many of the diy speakers at owston where someone else's design Scott's frugal horns are common now, mostly because Stefan sells pre cu...
by SteveS57
Thu Dec 09, 2021 11:15 am
Forum: General Audio
Topic: Speakers
Replies: 187
Views: 47421
Great Britain

Re: Speakers

At the start of this thread, Richard said that amongst modern commercially made speakers, the only brand that he liked were NVA and Klipsch. Whenever I attended bake-offs or hi-fi events, Richard and I were always in complete agreement as to what sounded better and why. In general at bake-offs - if...