Hello everyone. Need feedback on where to go on DIY speaker testing.
Thanks to effort and initiative member @
Winkleswizard took and funding on my part we managed to build, test and review a couple of designs. Question is, where to go from here. Funding is the issue for future kits and outbound shipping costs (I pay for return shipping). I can think of a few options but open to others:
1. We stop here and focus on commercial products. Of course, someone may have a DIY speaker that they send it for testing and indeed one is planned that way already (local source).
2. Some of you purchase the kits and we see if @
Winkleswizard has the resources to build and send it to me for testing.
3. A few people get together and fund the purchase of new kits to be tested. You can donate the money to me, I will collect and send to @
Winkleswizard to buy and build.
4. You all lean on kit makers to send them in for evaluation (built or not built).
I think our DIY testing has been successful in generating good data since we can deeply examine their components and designs unlike commercial products. So I am happy to continue to invest the time to test them and pay for return shipping wherever they need to go. Need a group effort for the rest of the expense.
Open to any other options.
While typing this, let me thank @
Winkleswizard for the leadership he took to get us here and the work he has put in to get us the samples we tested. I look to him to lead the selection of what we test in the future since I am not up on what is popular and what is not in DIY world.