[R-390] Another satisified Ebayer?

[Tim Shoppa]

"Dan Merz" <mdmerz at verizon.net> wrote:
> Yes,  I suspected maybe this was meant to be an improvement on an original
> speaker but still not sure just what the claims are for the speaker or what
> the originals looked like.  Evidently the originals had no box???  I also
> suspect this replica uses not what any of us would recognize as ordinary
> cardboard but a higher quality composite board material of some sort. On the
> performance side,  I have several speakers mounted in 12x12x8 inch USPS
> priority mail cardboard boxes for two of my boatanchors.

Bent-sheet-metal-box speakers always have (to my ears) a "tinny" sound.

Die-cast-box speakers are a step better but still sound a little tinny.
(Still I have a pair of "Minimus-77's", Rat Shack's die-cast speakers
of the 70's and 80's, that do a tolerable if not stellar job. The main
reason they're still around is that they are well-nigh indestructible.)

The best-to-my-ears speakers have a box made of high-density particle board.
I'm guessing they sound "mellower" because they don't have resonances/rattles
in the way that sheet metal boxes do. And to my ears "mellow" is what I
want for long-term listening.

Make particle board thin enough and it becomes cardboard, I guess...

The WORST speakers I've ever heard are the ones sold as "computer" speakers.
They all sound tinny and crappy to me. I don't care if they have some
monster big powered woofer, they still sound bad, no mellowness at all!

Tim.