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I have found that my audio passion has been growing like crazy lately. Three years ago I was that crazy kid who spent $250 on a 5.1 computer speaker system, I was the envy of all my friends. The next year I upgraded to a $400 5.1 computer speaker system (logitech Z5500's) and sold my previous set off. I never thought I would ever need to upgrade again, I was browsing CC one day though and came across a set of speakers that stole my heart, the infinity beta 50's. I had no way of affording a $1,000 pair of speakers so I snagged a pair for super cheap off of that one special auction site. That was when everyone knew I had really gone off the deep end, I never thought I would dream of upgrading from those beauties, such amazing sound quality and monstrous low distortion SPL's on tap at all frequencies, it was beautiful. Well as time went on I began to post more and more in the speaker forums, going out to audition every single set and type of speaker I could find, it did not take long though before I began to grow tired of the meaningless discussion over there. I look back at the amount of pissing contests and useless advice that takes place over there and I wonder to myself, "how long can these people sit there and fight over ID vs B&M speaker brands?!".
Finally, I could no longer resist the temptation of the DIY area, at last I found some fresh meat to sink my teeth into. I just sold my beta's off and am now working on some 10.5' tall line arrays and have several more projects slated to do. I couldn't be happier, I used to think that people that built their own speakers were dilusional and ignorent to think that they could adequately handle such an undertaking. I thought that when they bragged about how they sounded, they were just deceiving themselves into thinking their speakers were better than they actually were. After all, we can't just go out and buy high quality drivers or build high quality cabinets and crossovers. There is no way we can actually design a speaker that will sound as good a commercial one designed by professionals. Right?
Personally, I have always been a bit of DIY'er, since I was a small child, so I am highly biased, but I have no idea how people can possibly get so passionate about this hobby (most of you have seen how incredibly heated some of discussions on the speaker forum can get) without going out and building one's own speakers. I mean, whats there to do? What's there to talk about? You wind up with hundreds and thousands of pages of pure fluff because there is no real knowledge there, just opinions, have seen people with 5,000 posts (all of them in the audio area) that didn't know that a good crossover or bad crossover could affect the sound.
This isn't intended to be a ranting post, just got a little sidetracked. How did you guys wind up in this forum area? Did you start out over at HTGuide? Have you always been a DIY'er or was this a big step for you? Did you start the speaker building process because of the higher value or purely because you wanted to take your passion for audio to the next level?
Finally, I could no longer resist the temptation of the DIY area, at last I found some fresh meat to sink my teeth into. I just sold my beta's off and am now working on some 10.5' tall line arrays and have several more projects slated to do. I couldn't be happier, I used to think that people that built their own speakers were dilusional and ignorent to think that they could adequately handle such an undertaking. I thought that when they bragged about how they sounded, they were just deceiving themselves into thinking their speakers were better than they actually were. After all, we can't just go out and buy high quality drivers or build high quality cabinets and crossovers. There is no way we can actually design a speaker that will sound as good a commercial one designed by professionals. Right?
Personally, I have always been a bit of DIY'er, since I was a small child, so I am highly biased, but I have no idea how people can possibly get so passionate about this hobby (most of you have seen how incredibly heated some of discussions on the speaker forum can get) without going out and building one's own speakers. I mean, whats there to do? What's there to talk about? You wind up with hundreds and thousands of pages of pure fluff because there is no real knowledge there, just opinions, have seen people with 5,000 posts (all of them in the audio area) that didn't know that a good crossover or bad crossover could affect the sound.
This isn't intended to be a ranting post, just got a little sidetracked. How did you guys wind up in this forum area? Did you start out over at HTGuide? Have you always been a DIY'er or was this a big step for you? Did you start the speaker building process because of the higher value or purely because you wanted to take your passion for audio to the next level?
