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Jorge wrote:

I have never found the law of diminishing returns to apply to audio!  Going crazy always sounds better…

Jorge, we need to have a perspective about those things.  With exception of oxric’s episode, who still is not able to figure out when to laugh and where to cry, the given  thread  about “Constructing LF modules to the limits” is shaping in  formulating a few approaches: 1) haralanov’s large volume from large drivers 2) Romy’s multiple of 25W driver in line array 3)yours with some cylinders of unknown design. I would like to note that it might be dozens of other completely legitimate ways to make the LF to the limit. What is very important to understand that all of it very much not compete with each other, or pout in this way: we have no framework to correlate the results. 

I would love to sit in the same will with haralanov and you, to hear his large underhaned(!) drivers, my arrays and your UFO cylinders, compare notes and learn from each other’s mistakes, successes, references and evaluation criteria. The reality is the even if it physically be possible them it would not be possible methodologically.   You see in bass reproduction there are so many “depends” and so many variables that any generalization counts very little.

If you paid attention it has been long attitude of my site is that I talk about my own practice, my own experiments, my own concussions, my own though process and my own results. Some people might feel that it needs to be “compared” to others as most of the people in audio practice audio not for themselves but for wrong idiotic reasons. The reality I absolutely assure that that the people who are driven in audio by the proper motivations do not have need to look in whose guarder the grass is greener. If you grow tomatoes because you are a connoisseur cook and you need for your salads some kind of specific texture of tomato then would not care about anything else then how to make your texture to  be the most fruitfully.  Sure you would like to have your horizons wide and open but if you are truly committed to get great test of your visualization then you use the word experience of tomato growing to improve the tomato bread of your choosing. Unless you grow the tomatoes to sell, no pun intended (you know what I mean).

BTW, I would like to pay anybody attention that the case with Haralanov any referenced are not applicable. The man makes his own drivers and his drivers can be absolutely anything. He might be very much delusional in his results and he can operate at the level of the drivers that none of us can’t even approach. No one knows and I have absolutely no problems with it. 

The most important point in the “diminishing returns” is the threshold where the “good enough” lives. This “good enough” has no diminishing return but it has only own sense of desire. Pay attention, I play not 4 drivers per channel and I do understand that to double it would give great benefit. As I told before: all that I need to do is to write a relatively small check and go to work on Monday. As I get home from work the new completed 8 woofer tower will be sitting in my room and I have absolute confidence that it will be significantly better. I do not do it because the threshold is “good enough” doe not frustrate me. Does it mean  that those 4x25W drivers are enough for my type of room? Absolutely not. In fact it means absolutely nothing and has absolutely no general conclusive value. Would I advise to go more drivers for woofer tower of my type? Absolutely! Would I criticize the other if they use Macondo-like installation and play just 4 drivers woofer towers? Absolutely! Does it make me willing to change anything? Not necessarily. You see, my aspiration to change anything has absolutely nothing to do with compliance to what is the “best”, even objectively the best. I can assure you that all people who practice audio for right reason have the very same thinking pattern. The rest are just a horde of bystanders…

I am very sure that the subject of this post of mine “The best bass solution” will be a few minutes indexed by search engines and in a few days I will have  hundreds Morons hitting my site with their search for a recipe for the “best bass”. I assure they will be disappointed. You know what, fuck them!  I am off for my “Bruckner on just 4 woofers”…

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