Last weekend I had the rare opportunity to spend the day with our resident grand wizard of speaker design, Jon Hancock. Jon was gracious enough to offer his expertise and experience to help my brother and I assemble some Usher 2 ways in PE prefabricated enclosures, based on Dennis Murphy's design.
Being of limited woodworking skill, I watched Jon get to work on the cabinets early in the morning while picking up as many pointers as possible. Progress probably could have been a bit faster, but I was picking Jon's brain about everything I could think of along the way.
Around lunch time we took a break, and my brother and I were in for a real treat! We were able to audition Jon's M8a's. My brother and I were left speechless. They are everything everyone who has heard them says, and then some. The quality my brother and I were most impressed with was the way they were able to play at a high volume, but still sound effortless and unstrained. They enveloped you in the music, and are a speaker you could listen to all day and never get fatigued.
After the break, we finished up the woodwork, and came upstairs to finish off the cabinets. Unfortunately we didn't get a chance to complete the project, but Jon was generous enough to offer his help with finishing the speakers. Most important my brother and I got one more good listen to the M8a's before we left. We auditioned the Police SACD. WOW! Enough said.
As for the Usher's, when they are completed maybe Jon can be coaxed into giving his opinion on them and how they compare to the 2 ways he designed for his daughter earlier in the year.
I just wanted to let everyone know how lucky we are at HTguide to have Jon as a resource of information. Jon was very unselfish to give up his valuable free time, away from his own projects, to help a newbie with some basic speaker construction. The whole day he answered my many questions, and at the end of the day I came away with much more knowlege than at the begining which is the most important thing.
Thanks again Jon,
Chris
Being of limited woodworking skill, I watched Jon get to work on the cabinets early in the morning while picking up as many pointers as possible. Progress probably could have been a bit faster, but I was picking Jon's brain about everything I could think of along the way.
Around lunch time we took a break, and my brother and I were in for a real treat! We were able to audition Jon's M8a's. My brother and I were left speechless. They are everything everyone who has heard them says, and then some. The quality my brother and I were most impressed with was the way they were able to play at a high volume, but still sound effortless and unstrained. They enveloped you in the music, and are a speaker you could listen to all day and never get fatigued.
After the break, we finished up the woodwork, and came upstairs to finish off the cabinets. Unfortunately we didn't get a chance to complete the project, but Jon was generous enough to offer his help with finishing the speakers. Most important my brother and I got one more good listen to the M8a's before we left. We auditioned the Police SACD. WOW! Enough said.
As for the Usher's, when they are completed maybe Jon can be coaxed into giving his opinion on them and how they compare to the 2 ways he designed for his daughter earlier in the year.
I just wanted to let everyone know how lucky we are at HTguide to have Jon as a resource of information. Jon was very unselfish to give up his valuable free time, away from his own projects, to help a newbie with some basic speaker construction. The whole day he answered my many questions, and at the end of the day I came away with much more knowlege than at the begining which is the most important thing.
Thanks again Jon,
Chris
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