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Been tossing around an idea with Rcarpenter for an addition to and / or another event in NYC to spark interest in the DIY community and give people a reason to get creative and have some fun with the hobby. Looking to see if there would be interest. This would be held in New York City so may be more of an east cost thing, but an idea for any get-together.
The concept is quite simple and based upon "iron cheif" where these is a secret ingredient used:
1) A poll is posted with a handful of drivers that can be used in many ways such as smallish midwoofer or full-rangers, and the forum gets to vote on the single driver to be used.
2) Once the driver is chosen, the designers have to build a speaker using that driver, and whichever other drivers they use to create a speaker. All drivers have to come from PE, no buyouts.. You will read why in a min. So all entry's will use the chosen driver in whichever configuration the designer thinks is best.
3) The speakers would need to be of bookshelf size, and mountable on 24" stands. The reason being is so one can be shipped 2 weeks in advance to Roman for measuring. Once measured Roman locks the measurements in a vault until:
4) The day of the actual competition where everyone meets at Roman's shop and the designers listen to all entry's in a controlled environment and subjectively evaluate all of the speakers (not scoring their own for obvious reasons).
5) The measurements are revealed after the subjective evaluation and the score for each speaker is a combination of both subjective, and objective data to get an overall winner, plus a few honorable mentions.
To encourage people out of the woodwork, PE has offered to sponsor (as well as NYDIY 2012!) and there will be prizes for the winners! I am also going to seek with PE that the winners project get featured in their showcase in a flyer.
There are many more details, but they can come later if we move forward.
Overall the idea here is involvement, new, veteran, novice alike and give people yet another reason to DIY as well as grow our visibility and community.
The drivers will all be less than $20/ea. It makes it affordable for all, and since they will be less than a perfect driver, present some challenges for noob and vet alike.
Is there interest?
...My daughter wanted to press the smiles, so here they are: :rolleyes: :eek: :o
The concept is quite simple and based upon "iron cheif" where these is a secret ingredient used:
1) A poll is posted with a handful of drivers that can be used in many ways such as smallish midwoofer or full-rangers, and the forum gets to vote on the single driver to be used.
2) Once the driver is chosen, the designers have to build a speaker using that driver, and whichever other drivers they use to create a speaker. All drivers have to come from PE, no buyouts.. You will read why in a min. So all entry's will use the chosen driver in whichever configuration the designer thinks is best.
3) The speakers would need to be of bookshelf size, and mountable on 24" stands. The reason being is so one can be shipped 2 weeks in advance to Roman for measuring. Once measured Roman locks the measurements in a vault until:
4) The day of the actual competition where everyone meets at Roman's shop and the designers listen to all entry's in a controlled environment and subjectively evaluate all of the speakers (not scoring their own for obvious reasons).
5) The measurements are revealed after the subjective evaluation and the score for each speaker is a combination of both subjective, and objective data to get an overall winner, plus a few honorable mentions.
To encourage people out of the woodwork, PE has offered to sponsor (as well as NYDIY 2012!) and there will be prizes for the winners! I am also going to seek with PE that the winners project get featured in their showcase in a flyer.
There are many more details, but they can come later if we move forward.
Overall the idea here is involvement, new, veteran, novice alike and give people yet another reason to DIY as well as grow our visibility and community.
The drivers will all be less than $20/ea. It makes it affordable for all, and since they will be less than a perfect driver, present some challenges for noob and vet alike.
Is there interest?
...My daughter wanted to press the smiles, so here they are: :rolleyes: :eek: :o
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