I am in my 40s and have built my first DIY speaker in high school ...
but my focus lately was more on learning than building ...
when i started i needed good speakers and thought DIY was a good way to save money ...
since then i have decided that i have no interest in building anything that can be purchased commercially and that DIY for me is about expressing myself and not about fighting capitalism ...
if you DIY to fight evil greedy capitalists and their profit margins that is fine, but to me there is nothing evil about businesses making profits and if somebody like JBL, B&W, KEF, Genelec etc. make good speakers they have every right to charge for it whatever they want even if it costs them 1/10th as much to build it.
my goal is to design speakers and subwoofers that for whatever reason the big boys failed to design. the big boys have very specific ideas about who their customer is and what that customer needs and they will never build something for which they feel there is no market. this is my opportunity as a DIYer.
a DIYer doesn't need to worry about having a market for his speaker because he is the market. this gives us freedom the big boys do not have. freedom to express ourselves.
if you disagree you are wrong but that is also your right.
but my focus lately was more on learning than building ...
when i started i needed good speakers and thought DIY was a good way to save money ...
since then i have decided that i have no interest in building anything that can be purchased commercially and that DIY for me is about expressing myself and not about fighting capitalism ...
if you DIY to fight evil greedy capitalists and their profit margins that is fine, but to me there is nothing evil about businesses making profits and if somebody like JBL, B&W, KEF, Genelec etc. make good speakers they have every right to charge for it whatever they want even if it costs them 1/10th as much to build it.
my goal is to design speakers and subwoofers that for whatever reason the big boys failed to design. the big boys have very specific ideas about who their customer is and what that customer needs and they will never build something for which they feel there is no market. this is my opportunity as a DIYer.
a DIYer doesn't need to worry about having a market for his speaker because he is the market. this gives us freedom the big boys do not have. freedom to express ourselves.
if you disagree you are wrong but that is also your right.
