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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide.

Post Subject: Mechanical differences Altec 288 versus Vitavox S2 what makes them tickPosted by morespeakers2 on: 2/2/2013

I believe you use the laser to find out at what frequencies there are resonances and where they are at so youcan make the phase plug accordingly but like I said I know about as much as those lasers as I saw in the Tad brochure.

A machinist told me one time long ago he had a shop as accurate as the next guy, and that it really does not matter the tools after a certain point but the user.

You are right if you do have a clue, no amount of lasers or other tools are going to help you,but it takes time to make phase plugscorrectly and I would like all the help I could get to get it right the first or second time if possible.

So I guess in the long run you would eventually make it correct without lasers although there may be something the lasers pick up that is unknown about the behavior of the diaphragm so maybe in the long run you are wrong and the lasers will make a better sounding driver,or maybe not, it is discovery time.

Give me the lasers.

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