Folks,
Before any further controversy erupts and any charges of slander or liable are made, I suppose I had better write a little disclaimer.
To be succinct, I will say that in our specific application, the Mundorf inductors are superior to the Sledgehammers in their present form. Conversely, the Sledgehammer devices have a problem and are inferior to the Mundorf devices when applied to our loudspeaker designs. This claim is based solely upon subjective listening tests and is therefore, open to interpretation. SP Technology has not performed any quantitative analysis and therefore, is not in the position to back up this claim with any scientific evidence nor do we suggest that the Sledgehammer device will not work as advertised in other products provided by other manufacturers.
Robert A.Smith - President
SP Technology Loudspeakers, inc.
THERE! Now…anybody that wants to continue a debate can go pound sand! Geesh. Ya know, this whole high-end audio business is completely governed by a worldwide collective set of subjective opinions that are eternally in flux…in the first place. In the grand scheme of things, it’s nothing but a bunch of “opinions” anyway. Most of the time scientific “facts” don’t amount to a hill of beans to the vast majority. Some guru says this or that product is the new “bomb” and half the world believes it and the other half wants to kill the guy. What difference does Karsten’s or my opinion make? Even if I had done all the scientific testing and could prove the Sledgehammer’s had some significant problem, how many folks would scoff at that? Plenty, I assure you. I learned a long time ago that you can’t prove water is wet to a fish that has its mind made up otherwise.
It all comes down to integrity and faith. Who do you believe? Why? If you believe something someone says, do you have good reasons to do so? Are you an idiot that believes something just because it’s popular to do so? Do you refute what someone suggests just to be obstinate?
If anybody believes Karsten and I, I’d like to think its because we have exhibited honesty and truthfulness in the past. I hope its based on our integrity rather than because, well…everybody else seems to be “jumping on board” at the moment. You should never completely believe anyone without getting to know them first. For those that have been following this thread and don’t know us – take every word that I or any other representative of SP Tech would write with a grain of salt. We want you to believe us only because you “
believe in” us. Anything less than that and whatever we say is little more than a bunch of meaningless keystrokes floating around in cyberspace.
As far as the Mundorf coil goes and why it is superior to the Sledgehammer…maybe the Mundorf is superior from a measured standpoint. I tend to believe that could ultimately be proven to be the case, but I could be wrong. Maybe it is superior, but science doesn’t know how to measure it. Maybe the arrangement of its silicon and iron atoms produce a…“quantum string conduit that creates a form of direct communication with the woofer’s voice-coil, thereby forming a type of feed-forward intelligence path such that the inductor anticipates any distortion the woofer might produce and corrects for it before said distortion is able to form.”
Then again, maybe the Mundorf is actually inferior and Karsten’s hearing works inversely from what is considered normal or… maybe we both really do believe we’re on to something but we’re just full of crap. Finally, maybe we’re both just flat-out lying. In the end it’s just about some stupid inductors in some stupid speakers. Is anybody going to loose any sleep over it? Will someone’s kid develop cancer because of it? I suppose there are a few that are worried they might loose a few bucks because of all this stink – but I doubt it. In defense, all they have to do is point at the source and claim we’re a bunch of idiots. Now how in the world am I going to disprove that?
-Bob
