"I have learnt the equipment means very little. From amp topology to fluffed up cone material." More regurgitation that it's all in the install. This is meant to feed one's own ego and give himself proper credit that he was a good boy and used his know-how to do a good install. Let's start with this one because it will rob you of your full potential. And I mean YOU. For what you can do with average equipment (and I mean that as a compiment), what any of us can do, you could do so much more with drivers that have a far better motor structure and very careful creation & matching of cone/spider/surround materials to ensure a plethora of design criteria. Drivers are so much more than just a cone moving back and forth or just absorbing thermal abuse. Do you really believe that because you don't understand it, didn't design it or you don't have the money to spend on it, that it couldn't possibly be better? I mean you are even dismissing the fact that there are teams upon teams of R&D departments all over the map that get paid to develop drivers everyday. Are those people all showing up and faking the funk to collect a paycheck so that one guy can market a driver that can't do what he's advertising it can do? Again, if there were no merit to this, every chump in the lanes would be rocking the ugliest, cheapest shit simply from an economical standpoint. But they aren't. The best guys are very carefully selecting raw drivers based on numerous points and then sampling them. The seasoned guys will know almost immediately upon a free-air sampling of a driver in their hand if it possesses the magic they were hoping for, in order to know if it will fit the bill for their end install goals. Hint; they're listening first for general frequency response, yes, but you can believe they are also monitoring the driver's behavior as it relates to that see-through quality. Same with amplifiers. It's just pride that won't allow you to acknowledge something as simple as the differences between amplifier technologies. I can say with a mighty high degree of confidence that if I could pick a speaker system for you to sample the difference between a class A amplifier and a class D amplifier, you would most certainly hear the difference. I would know that you heard the difference and I would smile as you argued with me that you didn't. More than that, though, I would love to sit you down in my living room and let you sample the hundreds of different drivers that I have and see if you would finally acknowledge that you heard a difference, not in the frequency response (that's too obvious) but the way the drivers release the various complexities and details hidden in music that you thought you knew so well. All attributed to the low distortion motors and "cone fluff" as you put it. Not sure why you would bother to mention energy storage or rise and decay in this thread to suit your arguments about amplifiers but then dismiss it as it pertains to drivers for being one of the best reasons one driver might offer better performance over another. Perhaps you simply don't understand how it works.
I could pick another one of your lines apart but I won't persist in trying to expand your horizons any further. Mostly because you seem to know enough to be satisfied with things as they are. Ignorance is bliss, they say. You might want to give the advice thing a rest, though. I can see you responding in quite a few threads and I know some guys are going to be robbed of potential if they follow some of your suggestions. Why give advice that limits people?
