Making High End Clones at Home for Fun and Savings

This thread was in part inspired by an Agon friend who sent me the link for the OEM of the Red Rose speakers in China.

We were both delighted to see that these speakers, exactly as they seemed to appear in Mr Levinson's showroom, were available for about 10 cents on the dollar from the Chinese manufacturer.

On the same site, they also seemed to offer the ribbon tweeter element that the speakers used.

Now this was all well and good until I sent unanswered emails and faxes to the contact details on the website.

What was really a surprise, however, was to then find the same ribbon tweeter unit, already in the US for even less ?!?!

With this in mind, it seemed like a good idea to get out the soldering iron.

Reubent, yes I agree there is a reason some of this stuff is expensive and I am not trying to put Mr Wilson out of business.

But I continue to think that with some interest and resourcefulness, we could probably put together some very very good systems for about a 1/3 of branded comparables.

Thanks for your experiences and ideas.

Gregm

Understanding that speaker manufacturers need to buy groceries too, I am not so keen on funding their research and development.

Companies that provide good products and good customer service and support should be able to sustain high quality revenues which in turn help them to invest in new equipment and techology.

So it still seems like a good idea to try and build proven, now simple, high performance designs at home.