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In the Thread: The remarkable moments in Audio.
Post Subject: Important person i met oncePosted by martinshorn on: 12/21/2017
hi Romy. Nice topic! I have a very nice memory. I started very young, supported by a friend who tought me a lot and gave me books to study. I learned the basic formulas and started DIY speakers from purely technical perspectives, graphs, math, calculations and measurements. But rather average results, mostly adoring $$$$$ stuff from exhibitions. One day, i was invited to a special guys home. He was very entertaining. Though he studied engineering, he seemed to completely forgotten everything. He rather focused on partying, drugs and spiritual things. He had built hundreds of speakers. All without any method. He always selects all drivers by having the loose driver in hand free air, holding it next to the head, listening some seconds, evaluation done. Cases are being built out of the stomach. Crossovers as well. No measures ever. Everywhere open devices, speaker fragments laying around, looking rather cheap like garbage. „What a freak“ i thought, judging easily...Well so it happened, i listened to the first big multiway horn in his place. It was like a big bang. I’ve never heard music like that before. So much fun and emotion. Ill never forget. He btw also discovered something back in the 80s you would now call the resonating oops injector 
For a decade i could not forget that day, comparing everything to this „reference „ being disappointed with whatever i built, trying to copy him, visiting exhibitions. His system is still today, almost 20 years later, one of the best (very few) i have ever experienced. Big respect to the ones who design beyond the formulas, who can create out of passion and heart something far better than any engineer would.
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