Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site

mark wrote:

just would like to clarify the cost of this ribbon,xfmr. etc.the figure of 2600us$ is that for tweeter pr. only or complete with the xfmr.?i got a quote of 4000 euros +300 ship in jan./08.has the material cost risen dramaticly since you got yours what was it 1 and a half years ago? i emailed alex to get clarification.

Mark, yes my cost was just above two and half grands.  Is Alex changing nowadays more? Well, good for him, why would I care. He runs business and as anyone in business he is a subordinate of supply demands. If he feels that his drivers should cost 4000 Euros then it is the way how he feels, there is nothing that we customers could do with it. There is another factor that you might consider: I personally have a tendency to aggravate people when they do custom work for me. I have very specific idea what I would like to have and the people who run production business when they are engaged in custom products with me they not always understand what they are stepping into. I have seen a number of the cases when manufactures undertook custom jobs with me, giving to me very low prices because they would like me to sponsor the project that they had interest themselves. Then, going over the projects, obsessing the amount of labor and amount of annoyance from my side they told to themselves that if they do it again it will be MUCH more expensive. For instance John Hasquin when he built my upperbass horn asked me $1500. They looking at all pain in ass that he experienced doing my project  the very next upperbass horn (in a few month)  that he did to a friend of mine (and the hone was sampler - 150Hz) I believed he took $8000. So, what Alex dose is not out of the realm of something that I would consider as non-predictable pricing policy.  There is one pain in ass aspect of Alex that I perfectly share with you but it is not his fault – his shipping charges. In his city the only reliable shipping method is FeDex and they have only expedited overnight service in there. It is kind of pricy but it is what it is…

mark wrote:

i do not think i would want to try anything less than a tweeter of this caliber to go with the s2, but the price quoted recently is staggering.

I do not know what “caliber” are you taking about and what all those notions come to you head. Reading a bunch of Morons, including me, blabbing on-line about different tweeter solution you have built in your head a stupid hierarchy of the tweeter’s calibers and feel that the “Water Drop”- like tweeter is the only that might be worthy.  It is absolutely wrong way to look at the things. I, with all my writings, might be just another online idiot or just a person who has very low reference points about sound of tweeters. If you so like your S2 (and you will go over it) then why do not try different tweeters and defile for yours what is better. If you found that my notes correlate with your own findings then you might use some of my paths. However, if you do your homework and conduct own research on the subject then you will be able to read my comments differently and will able to acknowledge some things that you are blind now.  I said that “a need for 109dB sensitively is arguable”. A person who juts blindly read words in my site will discard it as my another malapropic opus but for the an individual with a sense of specific and HF objectives  and tangible  experience it might open a pandora box for some considerations or perhaps serves as a warning…

Anyhow, my point was that before paying exuberant amount of money to Alex or to anyone else you need to define to yourself what type and what kind HF you are looking….

Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site