Justification, viability of solution and stake holders concerns

Justification, viability of solution and stake holders concerns

I wanted to make electrostatic speakers as from my research I gathered that they have a much better sound quality, a more crisp sound to them and that they retail for several thousand dollars more than regular speakers. I wanted to produce a pair of high quality speakers at the end of year so Electrostatic was the way to go.

Electrostatic speakers had never been made before in the history of the class, so there was a bit of concern from the stakeholder Terry, about whether they would actually work. We did some research into the theory of electrostatics, components need and characteristics of successful Electrostatic Speaker designs.

We concluded that it would be viable to make Electrostatic speakers. Economically they were viable as to turn our speakers into Electrostatic ones the extra material needed was a perforated sheet of metal which costs about hundred dollars, so it was definitely worth it to spend that much to produce a pair of speakers that retail for a few thousand dollars more than the same speakers without the metal.

Making speakers yourself is definitely viable as don't have to pay the markup you would get from buying in a store.

The idea also seemed viable, as from reading other peoples accounts of their homemade electrostatic speaker projects many were successful. We found out that basically few adjustments to our speaker shape, and a sheet of perforated metal would result in functioning electrostatic speakers.

I ran out of time to put the metal on, so I was unable to test whether the electrostatic idea worked on my speakers. However Kenji also did Electrostatic speakers similar to mine, and his worked really well with the electrostatics making a considerable difference. This leads me to believe that mine will work to, and I will come in to workshop next year to finish off making the Electrostatic speakers.