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I would like to pass some observations about my MiniMe progress. At this point it is obvious that the MiniMe project will be a success, even despite the pain of the ass with multi-amping and some other setbacks. The MiniMe will turn out to be a good speaker, well-worth to serve the purpose it meant to serve.

Still, expressing all positive adjectives about the intimidate MiniMe result I would like do not lose a perspective about the absolute quality of the MiniMe accomplishment. So, how really good the MiniMe is from a critical perspective that the readers of my site are accustom to hear from me? Well, the MiniMe is certainly is not seize performer and if I go into somebody’s home and hear the sound of MiniMe caliber I would comment the it is basically a crap. It is not that MiniMe’s Sound is bad but it is very much at the scale of the small-medium size ported speaker. It does not has a LOT of what I would like to have (I can bring a long list) and the only advantage that MiniMe has over other similar speakers is that it is the size that I chose and the characters of imperfections that I can manage up to the point. I would love to tell you and the most important to myself that MiniMe battles the limitation of own class but it not the case – what MiniMe does sonically I’ve heard from many speaker, I also think heard better speakers of the same size (well a bit larger). Perhaps when I make the second channel and tune the ports I will be able to say more but I doubt and I am not taking about specific but about the whole picture.

That all bring to a very educational question to myself. The MiniMe cost around 7K and a few weeks of labor that I do not enjoy even I found it is away pleasant. So, would it make more sense for me in very beginning do not construct the MiniMe myself but to find ready to do off the shelf monitor, something Dunlavy SC-3, Coincident class?  I would say that it might be very much so. Initially I thought that I will be able to build MiniMe in the Macondo frame and that would defiantly lead to my custom work. What then when I decided that MiniMe would be a stand-alone narrow tower I had to stop and look for an off the self solution, perhaps customizing it.

Anyhow, it is too late for me but others might find if worth to consider.

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