Not really what I'd call a 'website' so much as just plain 'ol webspace like we probably all have. Nothin' fancy or professional.
Just a place to throw up pics. (that coulda been worded better eh? heh)
You can still see the 'more center chan. pics...' thread on GR's forum here where I forst posted this same link.
http://home.earthlink.net/~azstrehlow/alphacenter1.html And I don't work for GR in ANY way at all.
Funny, someone on a diff. forum recently said I work for GR too so I had to say "Uh... no I don't."
I NEVER thought I was giving the impression that I did. Have I?
Now I'm worried someone's been telling people that I do?
I have a habit of asking a lot of challenging questions to a certain 'other' speaker company -to which I often get the run-a-round, ignored, or insulted.
I can take it personally, but if people are trying to tie my posts to GR Research that would make me sick as Danny doesn't have ANYthing to do with what I choose to post about anything.
BTW... when looking into the GR Alphas I slammed Danny with a ton of challenging questions too. "Why it like this?" "Isn't this a problem?" "Why wouldn't doing this be better?"
stuff like that.
Funny thing was though.... he just answered them all.
Straightforward and with enough detail that I had few follow-up questions (thought he just answered those questions too), and it was clear to me he put FAR more thought into it than I had and removed any doubt I had about any aspect of his design.
He's not the only person who gives straight answers, but there's only one company IMO that seems to do far too much to avoid them.
I'll let you all take wild guesses.
It's HARD imo to know enough about all these great speakers out there, esp. online ones that people might never be able to hear before buying.
We all hear great things about so many of them, and I think most conclude that buying wildly marked-up stuff from stores just can't compare to the preformance/value ratio of so many online companies... but then how to choose between the online great deal companies?
For me it just seems logical to find out exactly what the details are of any speaker's design. Any specs, measurements, direct comparision opinions, x-over info, cabinet build, drivers, etc...
That all adds up to a lot of good info to make a judgement from IMO.
Sure 'hearing' the speaker is the best thing (still not the only thing though), but even if you can... it's still almost impossible to get several of these speakers in your own home at the same time to A/B/C 'em.
Danny's awesome IMO with how open he is with his info. And IMO shouldn't any speaker designer be?
People questioning you is really just a great chance to kinda brag about your awesome design I think, and put any doubts or 'what if's' to rest for others reading.
Sometimes a company uses publicly available parts and might want to keep details a secret so they don't get ripped off. I'd certainly understand if someone answered me in that way.
Some speakers companies use exclusive drivers and make wild claims they choose to not back up, and avoid what I think are easy questions seemingly at all costs.
I keep asking -not to piss people off, but feeling more like a reporter trying to dig up the truth -maybe for my own sake (I dig speakers is all), but I know there are others who like to find out the kind of stuff I dig up too.
I'm just a 'joe nobody' who built the Alpha kit, and was the first to build the Centurion center -based on the design info Danny posted to everyone here a couple months ago.
My neighbor WAS going to build the A/V3's with my help, but his wife (Kerrr-Ack!) said 'no'.
That's it. My whole story. hehe