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My experience with DIY and it's many frustrations that are not talked about.

It's hard to even argue for modding premade stuff. Kali lp6v2 sounds great, measures great, and all the mods I did really didn't change much about their performance. I was kinda surprised that adding bracing and dampening to them didn't really lead to any audible changes. If you've got a premade speaker that benefits greatly from mods, it was already just a poor speaker that should've been avoided to begin with and thanks to sites like ASR it's generally already known whether a speaker should be avoided. There are really good speakers at just about any price point these days.
 
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It's hard to even argue for modding premade stuff. Kali lp6v2 sounds great, measures great, and all the mods I did really didn't change much about their performance. I was kinda surprised that adding bracing and dampening to them didn't really lead to any audible changes. If you've got a premade speaker that benefits greatly from mods, it was already just a poor speaker that should've been avoided to begin with and thanks to sites like ASR it's generally already known whether a speaker should be avoided. There are really good speakers at just about any price point these days.
This is an interesting observation.

There is quite a number of budget speakers that seem to leave a lot of modding potential on the table. KEF Q350 springs to mind. Having followed many attempts at doing so makes me believe that much of it is rather specialized work, taking a lot of time and energy to make objective progress that in the end might not even make a subjective difference. One may indeed be better off saving up for a more premium model where the manufacturer has gone the extra mile themselves.
 
Yeah that's kind of another part of DIY that bugs me, most stuff is just hilariously impractical and ugly. Most DIY designs wouldn't last a day in most peoples homes. A real challenge is to make something that someone can live with.


I have my DIY speakers accepted by my lady and guests.



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Waf is super cringe lol, and those straight up look like refrigerators.
 
Every diy'er thinks they have the best looking speaker, but again it barely ever looks like something that would actually sell or find it's way into someone else's home. Fridge is a good example lol.

And surely WAF is high if they are white and fridge-like, no?

What does that even mean? I hope you're not implying what I think you are.
 
Really just meaning that, for DIY speakers, to me, these look to have pretty high WAF. With the grilles on obvs.
 
I can't do this waf stuff, like how is it still a thing. How old are people on this forum? I assume it must skew pretty old.
 
Me neither. I'm almost 60. Don't do DIY, but my speakers are pro-audio and fuggly. No shiny finishes or WAF here...
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It's hard to even argue for modding premade stuff. Kali lp6v2 sounds great, measures great...

Every diy'er thinks they have the best looking speaker, but again it barely ever looks like something that would actually sell or find it's way into someone else's home.

This seems inconsistent. The Kali (and Genelec and Neumann) are fine if you have a home studio, which I don't, but otherwise are quite unattractive. Unless my 13 year old son wanted these in his bedroom, there is no other room in my house where they could go.
 
You might not like the look of monitors, but you can't argue they deliver an aesthetic that implies their uses as tools/purely meant for audio reproduction. That's the part DIY misses with looks, they almost always imply that the speaker was DIY.

As per usual ASR fashion this thread has long passed the original topic and no real value will found in further replies. For that reason I will see myself out of this topic. Those who remain, enjoy regurgitating the same things over and over.
 
This is an interesting observation.

There is quite a number of budget speakers that seem to leave a lot of modding potential on the table.
Total coincidence, but look at this speaker in the Speaker Reviews and Measurement thread. Dirt cheap, sounds horrible, but with a crossover mod would probably sound quite good...

 
Read the white papers on Steve Deckers DECWARE website.
 
Read the white papers on Steve Deckers DECWARE website.
Did you want to link to anything specific, I see papers on Tube Amps.
What exactly in this thread are the white papers going to address, there has been a lot of stuff discussed?
 
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