Thanks guys!
By the way, in the pictures of Vinh's second system, please note the Millersound speakers (D'Appolito monitors with offset tweeter) Bill used to build. I can personally attest to their fine sound. Unlike most speakers, they used HDF, Bill doesn't like the sound of MDF much at all (though he can make it sound good via his damping techniques). I kind of forgot how nice the finish on them actually is. There are a lot of things most speaker companies could learn from Bill, he has all kinds of tricks and the like.
But, what will strike you the most is that these speakers listed for $495 new! Can you believe it??? Do you think he was making any money at all on these speakers? That's the reason they aren't sold any longer. He just can't bear to charge people a lot of money for something. But, he REALLY can't bear not giving them the best at the same time.
I think it was probably a painful decision for him to stop making loudspeakers, but he is the kind of person who would stay up for a very long time trying to figure out how to give the world all of the performance of much more expensive products without having to charge one cent more.
Plato, if you knew Bill, under your very definition, you may just put him on your audio deity list. He IS that kind of a person.
By the way, in the pictures of Vinh's second system, please note the Millersound speakers (D'Appolito monitors with offset tweeter) Bill used to build. I can personally attest to their fine sound. Unlike most speakers, they used HDF, Bill doesn't like the sound of MDF much at all (though he can make it sound good via his damping techniques). I kind of forgot how nice the finish on them actually is. There are a lot of things most speaker companies could learn from Bill, he has all kinds of tricks and the like.
But, what will strike you the most is that these speakers listed for $495 new! Can you believe it??? Do you think he was making any money at all on these speakers? That's the reason they aren't sold any longer. He just can't bear to charge people a lot of money for something. But, he REALLY can't bear not giving them the best at the same time.
I think it was probably a painful decision for him to stop making loudspeakers, but he is the kind of person who would stay up for a very long time trying to figure out how to give the world all of the performance of much more expensive products without having to charge one cent more.
Plato, if you knew Bill, under your very definition, you may just put him on your audio deity list. He IS that kind of a person.