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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO
Post Subject: "Such precision audio transducer"?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/11/2007

 MINGSU wrote:
The waiting list is always 2- 3 month back log because there is no short cut to mass production of such precision audio transducer.

Ming, I disagree with this sentiment. Any manufacturing is mass production; the question is only about the level of technological sufficiency of production.  I do not believe that GOTO guys run turning mashies a cut manually each driver. If they do then they juts waste this time and customer money. Drivers have pole pieces, frame, phase plugs, some other things that I am absolutely convinced they outsource to any CNC machine shop that dose it for GOTO as mass production for years. It is a very ordinarily work for any machine shop. The cones, their suspension and assembling of the drivers is more complicated but it also is perfectly rational technological and highly algorithmable steps. There is not “art” or “magic” involved in it and it is not the Nihonto manufacturing process (that is perfectly-technological as well). The “complexity” derives from the fact that in GOTO perhaps very few people within very restricted manufacturing facility do it. Perhaps 1-2 people, in home shop part time. There is nothing wrong with it except the fact that price is a justification of their insufficiency not the absent of “short cut of production”.

Also, do not stress the “precision” of GOTO drivers. GOTO do have high flux and most likely very narrow gaps. So what? It has to do with the precession of specification they give to their machine shop and with the off-axes precession of cone suspension. Still, TADs have 2.4T in gap and they stamp them like mushrooms after a rain.

Please do not feel that saying it I am trying to demonstrate disrespect to GOTO efforts to do their drivers. I just say that in “precision audio transducers” there is nothing that prevents them to be mass produced.  I think you are as a distributor would be the very first who would be benefited if GOTO drivers where more readily available. Then you would not tell to people stories about the “such precision audio transducers” but just let GOTO drivers to compete with this competitors on open market and with the telling legends bout the 2- 3 month back log.  Perhaps it is my corrupted perception but when I go to buy a car and a sales person inform me that if I pay $100.000 more than gas in my car will be not supplied not by a fuel-injector but a manfully measured milligrams of fuel then I ask myself: do I need to move in this car from point a location A to a location B or I need to entertain myself with gas measurements.

BTW, this brings an interning idea for you: why don’t you tell on your web site more about the GOTO drivers, partially about the “precision part” and what from GOTO point of view distinct them from their counterparts. I think it would be beneficial for GOTO for you and for people, who might be interested about the GOTO drivers.

Rgs, Romy the Cat

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