To me, speaker designers are like chefs. Optimally they pick the best ingredients and know how to combine and prepare them such that the dish is appealing to the customer. On the margin I think the chef supersedes the ingredients. For an audio example, I’d take Joseph Audio speakers with their “off-the-shelf” Seas drivers over those of several manufacturers that use “proprietary” drivers because the way Joseph combines the ingredients sounds (tastes) better to me. It’s really a sum of the parts thing and how a designer weaves them together — and, just as importantly, how that combination melds with one’s own unique personal tastes — that’s more important than the quality of any one ingredient IMHO.
Speaker manufacturers or box manufacturers with off the shelf drivers?
This is nothing new, it has existed for decades. There are several good makers of speakers that make their own drivers and those that build boxes and put ScanSpeak or some other "purchased" drivers in their boxes.
This is not ment to be demeaning or a put down, it is more of a question. With so many speaker "builders" using off the shelf drivers...is this simply a "high-end" version of Radio Shack or are these legit high-end products?
I do not know if other manufactures sell their drive units to box manufacturers....
This is not ment to be demeaning or a put down, it is more of a question. With so many speaker "builders" using off the shelf drivers...is this simply a "high-end" version of Radio Shack or are these legit high-end products?
I do not know if other manufactures sell their drive units to box manufacturers....