Poor dear. So you don't have so many nightmares over your hobbies, I suggest buying a cheap secondhand yacht.
Been there done thatI recommend restoring 2nd hand cars. A nice 1970s-era Lotus, Jensen, Lamborghini, Maserati, Lancia or de Tomaso should be just the ticket. Nothing ever goes wrong there, all straightforward, cheap as chips to fix up.
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Have look at what's available commercially, and the "engineering" design choices they've made...
https://www.whathifi.com/au/features/11-worlds-most-expensive-loudspeakers
You'll sleep like a baby with wonderful inspirational dreams
https://www.whathifi.com/au/features/11-worlds-most-expensive-loudspeakers
You'll sleep like a baby with wonderful inspirational dreams
Such absurdities are relatively new & driven, imo, by the unprecedented growth of billionaires in the recent past. Proof that there are too many people with too much $$ in the world.
I have heard 3 Backes & Müller BM systems and they are designed for a purpose and not gimmicky at all, pioneers of active loudspeakers -these big BM 100 are obviously meant for driving very large spaces - my pick out of this lot.
Unbelievably left off this is the big Piega Line source https://piega.ch/en/products/master-line-source and can fit in reasonable rooms and just sounds incredible - My pick if money was no object
Give me a bass bin of dimensions H 175 x W 34 x D 62 cm like the Piega and I wouldn't bother with 8 inch drivers.
I'd put six 6 TWELVE inch woofers in there, and blow the roof and walls out! You to, can do outrageous things like with DIY too...
The stuff of wet dreams...
The measurements of the Lavoce 3" fullrange FAN030.71:
https://hificompass.com/en/speakers/measurements/lavoce/lavoce-fan03071
https://hificompass.com/en/speakers/measurements/lavoce/lavoce-fan03071
Wow, really impressive for a driver that sells for $18 at parts express! Not quite as flat FR as the Scanspeak 10F/4424 you measured a while back, but double the power rating with similar <1kHz HD at 8V (tho obviously not as clean at 2.8V)... and you can get 6 of these at the price you'd pay for a single Scanspeak 10F/4424.
Nice you tested those!
They kind of perform as expected almost.
Thought the lower end down to 100Hz would be a tiny bit better.
Would be interesting to see how they compare to the Beyma 3fr30 as well?
LaVoce has actually quite some more interesting drivers for a fair price.
I am curious about the NBASS08-20 for example
(sold as a bass guitar woofer, but VERY workable as a midwoofer, the inductance is very low and straight, nice demodulation going on)
Haven't done that, but am going to build a home on poles on a steep block in a remote location soon...
The boat thing came from a friend who's fave boat joke is;
Q: What is the definition of yacht ownership?
A: Standing on the end of the wharf and throwing cash into the water.
I'd like to see that too. Post Easter when I have some more cash than today, I'll even pay for the drivers.
Nice to see a Lavoce driver tested. The 6.5" MAN061.80 is another nice driver from lavoce with high sensitivity and near satori levels of midrange distortion.
The 3" lavoce FAN030.71 is very good at low to moderate SPL, but it's short voice coil causes distortion to rise at higher volumes. Not unusual for 3" drivers it seems, with the 10F being the exception.
The 3" lavoce FAN030.71 is very good at low to moderate SPL, but it's short voice coil causes distortion to rise at higher volumes. Not unusual for 3" drivers it seems, with the 10F being the exception.
The review of the new BlieSMa 3" dome midranges - M74A-6, M74B-6, M74P-6 and M74S-6:
https://hificompass.com/en/reviews/bliesma-m74a-6-m74b-6-m74p-6-and-m74s-6
https://hificompass.com/en/reviews/bliesma-m74a-6-m74b-6-m74p-6-and-m74s-6