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Re: Driver operation & E-mails

Posted by tomservo (M) on September 13, 2003 at 09:10:28

In Reply to: Re: Driver operation & E-mails posted by Wayne Parham on September 13, 2003 at 07:48:02:

Wayne, I composed this reply to the post you just removed (must be nice to be able to take back your words like that).
I am posting it here as it addresses many of the same points

Perhaps if you carefully re-read what I have explained you will come away with more of the gist of what I was saying and the context it is in, instead of the simplistic view you cite.
If anything, one constant message has been “measure them and find out for yourself”.
I have in fact measured horns where the acoustic phase WAS around zero degrees over its operating band and similarly, countless direct radiators that behave as described.
The detailed explanation was to help you finally understand why it is this way (the way outlined in the technical references that seems so hard for you to accept.)
Not only that but I have been involved in several active sound cancellation projects, one with Penn State (that has a good acoustics program) so the idea of producing a specific waveshape and what is needed to do that is not a new concept to me.

Wayne, it was a bad idea for you to have sent the e-mails to the shop.
No one there knew of our discussions and to them it apparently sounded like some "emotional nut case" threatening legal action.
Surely even you can understand there reason for getting a lawyer to look at them and give his “read” (ever heard the expression “better safe than sorry”?) , on the other hand maybe your back to suggesting you didn’t send them?

Wayne also wrote:
I'm not the only person that considers you to be a charletan, so you can give up on this crusade you've had for the last few years.

Yes, I imagine you do have some friends who think just like you, but I would be surprised if you can find many actual technical people who dispute the operation of what we make and what I do or the argument I made here.
I figure AES and ASA would not have asked me to speak (as an invited speaker) on loudspeakers and transducers etc if they agreed with you on technical grounds. What have they asked you to speak about btw?
On the other hand, largely as a result of side by side demo’s, we are taking away business from a number of larger companies and I don’t imagine they are too happy about that, sour grapes.

Also, In your e-mail to me, you accuse me of bashing your products, if your willing to lie about something like that (something where anyone curious can simply go back and look to see what I actually said) , how much of what else you say is also fiction (lies) to
forward Your image in Your market here.
We on the other hand sell NOTHING at all to this market, I am here because I like DIY.
Yes, it did piss me off that you would jeopardize my involvement in DIY here by taking your supposed “problems” to the company I work for.
I did post an explanation here as to why I had to be absent and since it was a 100% a direct result of your e-mails, I told it like it was (without actually saying your name you will notice).
Now that you have tried to slime out of it, it seemed appropriate to fill in the blanks with the missing name, Wayne.
Face it, you farted in Church and now you have to sit in your own pew.
No amount of your arm waving changes what happened as a result of your e-mails.

Fwiw, I would also doubt that regardless of your own self image, that you think you can actually speak for everyone else on this as you suggest.

Cheers,

Tom

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