Tekton Design Moab
millercarbon OP5,583 posts08-13-2020 3:21pmMy aunt Bessie was stone deaf from birth. One day she comes over and we're playing music really loud, which we can do because being stone deaf no way aunt Bessie gonna complain, right? She comes downstairs (we rock out in the basement) and why is aunt Bessie all excited? Goes right up to one of the speakers, puts her hand on it, face beaming with joy, starts moving and mouthing, "MUSIC!!!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_the_Sound |
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But if the proposition is that different screw materials, in being softer or harder, can affix speaker materials more or less loosely than others, and that it is the changes in vibration to THOSE materials as a result that people can hear (e.g. vibrating speaker cabinet parts or whatever), then that would be measurable.I was taught that the copper screws were used as little tuned shock absorbers for the speaker baskets. And they were to be loctited at the specific tension. The driver was simply going to click and you go in a star pattern until all were done up and checked with a second pass. Mike never told me that the screws made a specific sound. Some people may have heard the improvement without understanding why - even so, the improvement exists despite not understanding how it works. Kind of like gravity, it works even if you are totally ignorant of it. Also I believe ( I was not told this by my employer) that the rate at which kenetic energy can be transferred into heat, will affect the shock absorber properties in this particular device. Softness is not the only consideration in the dynamic properties used in this particular application. I cannot confirm whether or not Mike used Clio measurements or simply tuned by ear, or got the calculations form an engineer - I simply don't know. |
