Totem Forest uses a Swan driver???????


Is this true? Forest would be using some HiVi (Swan) drivers (stock or modified, I do not know), the D6.8 Bass-Midrange:
http://www.swanspeaker.com/product/htm/view.asp?id=57
A friend of mine had to get his changed 3 times in less than a year and the last time his dealer told him these were Made in China by a former Canadian-based company and - of the record - not necessarily of the higher grade (got to love a dealer who can shoot himself in the foot that way!!!!!!).
Does this mean that one could...for much less....or this is something frequent, these drivers are top notch anyway and there is nothing wrong with using Hivi drivers in $3,000 speakers?
beheme

Showing 1 response by warnerwh

You diyer's should let this person know that speaker design is much more complicated than it at first appears. I had the great idea of building myself some world class speakers. A four way design with a budget of 3k. What I learned that is to do anything more than a simple two way you could lose alot of money and have a speaker that sounds awful even with good drivers. Not to mention the frustration of wondering why it doesn't sound like it should.

Fortunately the people at Madisound and Partsexpress boards let me know what I was getting into. After reading the Loudspeaker Design Cookbook it made speakers designed and built by someone else look like the smarter move. That's what I did btw.

Another option is a kit speaker like Madisound, Vmps, Partsexpress, Selah Audio have available. Let someone else do the design for you or plan on years of practice.