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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Vitavox S2 driver made in china
Post Subject: how worthwhile is the project.Posted by Dominic on: 2/16/2007
There are a couple ways to look at it.
The project could be taken from the same sort of perspective as Great Plains, id est, simply new manufacture as a replacement for a 'historic' piece of a equipment. If it can sound close enough to the original there may be a market. How big that market might be is hard to say, how can one find out how many vitavox fans are around who would be willing to use new production rather than vintage drivers? Especially when the Altec looks so darn close. If higher tolerances can be held in manufacture it might even sound better?
What makes a worthwhile driver in the first place? In terms of potential, i might say.
What are the physical qualities that make the S2 in particular at all attractive sonically?
What unexploited potential is left in the mechanical design- that would be worth pursuing?
As somone who's dipped his hand into such entrepreneurial projects i thought i'd offer some advice.
my real question, though it might be best to use another thread, is: What is it that makes a driver worthwhile?
Romy has been able to extract ways from the S2 that please him, it doesn't mean that particular unit is worthwhile in a greater context, only that one man has got it to work well enough for him.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site