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P.T. Barnum & Bozo the happy little speaker clown

Posted by tomservo (M) on September 14, 2003 at 18:46:43

In Reply to: Re: Tom Danley - P.T. Barnum of the industry posted by Wayne Parham on September 14, 2003 at 16:32:30:

Hi Wayne

> Well, Tom, I see you'd rather talk around the subject than respond to it directly.

If it were anyone else, what I have said in many posts would have been considered responding directly. There are speaker designers on this list that have picked up technical things from my posts to you, or at least that’s what they say.
Unfortunately, I apparently don’t speak “Wayne speak” I guess, so I doubt I could even convince YOU the Sun would rise in the morning..

The E-Mail issue was a fabrication of yours.

This is rich, you could choose to admit that it was your e-mails that caused me to be absent rather than try to make it sound like there was no issue, that I made them up or you didn’t send them.
This is pretty funny watching you try to slime out of it though.

> And the phase issue is an equivocation of yours.

Ok Wayne, maybe things ARE different in Wayne’s world, maybe phase and physics are different too in your special “land without measurements”, clearly we are on different pages here.
Maybe the references I cited are wrong in your special place too.
If I were you, I would proceed at maximum magnitude in whatever vector you think is best. You are entitled to your own view of things after all as am I and I am perfectly content to know you’re off designing your boxes in your own special way.

> You rightly discuss that having a resistive load is a requirement for zero phase. That's your argument why horns are better in phase than direct radiators. But when the issue is illustrated - and the reactive component is actually quantified - you backpeddle and use a different argument instead.

No, not a different argument at all, if you were paying attention or “wanted” to understand you might have at many points on this journey. You choose “not to see” which is different than ignorance, you are simply one very stubborn / proud fellow who desperately wants to be in the speaker business (my take)..

> So rather than just admitting it and discussing the matter honestly, you go into one of your long diatribes, in an attempt to talk your way around the issue.

Yes, the posts are longer than you deserve, I keep having this glimmer of a suspicion that you really do want to understand rather than just be the root of a technical Monty Python argument sketch.
If you were interested though, you would have already done enough homework to know how drivers and horns work at this level. Sadly, if I were to waste more time and words trying to clarify it, you would simply call it more diatribes or pick one or two words to focus on.

I see you also carefully avoid mention of the “product bashing” you insist I was doing after I asked you to “put up or shut up”
This was the issue you wrote me and the shop about wasn’t it?, the e-mails that were the problem remember.
Again “put up or shut up”, you accused me of bashing your products a number of times (read your e-mail) show the examples of what you wrote about and stop lying.

> You're really a piece of work.

Thanks Wayne, coming from you that is re-assuring.
Just as I am willing to let my posts stand on there own, I hope the readers of your posts here also gain an added appreciation for the “depth” of your personality, I know I have.
TaTa.

Tom

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