Redcarmoose
Headphoneus Supremus
As I said in the first post, it's all in the crossover, drivers and then speaker design is probably the most important. My main listening room I have speakers which are comparable to $20,000 speakers. To give you an idea what a difference in crossover components just look at the differences in cost between crossover components. Those speakers have probably 20 crossover components, and the capacitor I have on my tweeter is a $70 cap, on each $80 tweeter. Most speakers even "hi-end speakers will use a cheap $3, and I built them with the excellent Jantez Super caps which are still only $20 caps. Some DIY will spend more money on the crossover than they do on drivers, as long as you are using drivers which justify good xover components. But the beauty of building your own speakers, is you can upgrade them by upgrading the xover components.
As I said, I think I'm just spoiled. I've seen the crossovers in commercial speakers and it's a down right joke. I had a real nice set of speakers with a dual VC 7" Focals, and the Scan Speak 2905, which is a fantastic tweeter, and the crossover was JUNK. The resistors started turning into dust, the caps were $3 caps, just a joke, but they sounded fantastic. I cannot tell you how many people said they could not believe how good they sounded.
And what I have now....my brothers Dunlavy's are the only thing I've heard that even comes close.
Everyone is different. You could have two families going out on a car trip. They get to the mountain vista.
Family (A) goes and starts running along till they make it to a totally different area of the park. The father is breathing hard, mom is out of breath. The two kids in family (A) know what to expect as this is the routine. They do this for fun an take pride in the fact that they didn’t sit still and quickly and safely traversed and saw beautiful country. It turns out the father was an outdoor guide and his family reflects his values.
Family (B)
These guys are more intellectual maybe. Maybe not, but they are different and they drive up and park. The kids get out and look at the sky. They are still looking at nature but looking for rain and birds. Dad gets out a paint set up and the whole family walks 20 feet and they sit down under a tree. Paining starts, daughter is writing poetry and mom has a violin, much to the dismay of Family (A) as they are on their way out way way far away.
So neither family is better. They simply have completely opposite ideas of how they interpret the park. Both are into nature and both are super cool people who are showing their children pretty much the same set of values. One is more physical and one more intellectual.
This is headphone and speaker people. They are both into music but approach it from a different direction.
Now this is where it gets good.:....
Their brains will interpret nature in opposite ways. They are both seeing nature yet as it’s the same the perspective is different.
The next level:
We take family A and ask them to act like family B. We ask family B to do just what A does.
What happens at this point is their brains are wired to not see the park from the perspective. It’s a mental thing as perception is a huge part of how we are wired to judge out environment.
https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/dunu-studio-sa6.24665/reviews#item-review-24391
This is the first time I have randomly placed my own review as a leaning post to a question of this style. Yet I did because it goes off on a wild tangent finally arriving at very low cost IEM set-ups being great.
Why?
Why could low cost stuff be great?
Synergy that’s all. But the second half of the review deals with unexpected results, much like your unexpected results.
We don’t know what we are doing until......
a) Our brain understands the input.
b) Finding input our brain accepts.
Cheers!
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