speaker kit compendium
There is a thread running at the loudspeaker forum playing around with the idea of establishing a couple of basic platforms -- agreed upon drivers/configs -- as a basis for some community inspired designs. All pitfalls in this aside, the thread has wandered into the area of using the wiki for cataloging some of the already established kits available on the web. Immediately sensed is the lack of identity with wiki. ..of wiki? ..about wiki? ..toward wiki? Unfortunately, noone really knows what to make of it yet. I have a feeling it's something awaiting a critical level of interest before it will encourage some of the more timid to wander in. I just went over there and poked around a little shyly myself. I'd love to see it work for building an interactive catalog.
I've been interested, for instance, in the HATT MkIII's from Tony Gee's humblehomemadehifi.com. I've saved the relevant information from his site. I've gotten price lists and availability on the drivers and crossover equivalents from a couple of suppliers, and I've got some alternative ideas for the cabinet design. I would love to have contact with others who have built this speaker as well as with others who might benefit from my groundwork as I go. A HATT MkIII page in the loudspeaker wiki would enable me to kick it off with what I have so far and, if word got around, enable others to stop by and contribute or learn. A few projects later, the catalog might just start to breathe on its own.
Which leads to one more preliminary question (the above should imply that i'd like to start a HATT MkIII page and need help). Are there legal tangles with proprietary designs? When is a clone, I don't know.. just a clone?
I hope this wiki can get off the ground --excuse the mixed metaphors
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