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<blockquote data-quote="Bennett Prescott" data-source="post: 17719" data-attributes="member: 4">Re: The ethics of cabinet copyingI have never heard of someone duplicating a line array, as TJ says the flyware is not going to be OK. I have, however, heard of someone duplicating subwoofers and loading them identically so they could get 50% more for their money... same product, same drivers, only the manufacturer is getting hurt.No viable company can copy a known product and put cheaper drivers in it and get away with it. One reason is because even high end engineers work in the sticks 25% of the time to keep jobs on the books. I will figure that shit out pretty quick, and I&#039;m going to be pretty angry when your cheap driver selection means I need to throw out my predictions, measure a box one bandpass at a time to build a preset for it, and then rebuild the array from scratch. On top of that they&#039;re probably not powering it properly, and when I put in the HF correction I expect that box to be able to handle it&#039;s going to blow up their cheap compression drivers, which take all the load in a line array anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bennett Prescott, post: 17719, member: 4"] Re: The ethics of cabinet copying I have never heard of someone duplicating a line array, as TJ says the flyware is not going to be OK. I have, however, heard of someone duplicating subwoofers and loading them identically so they could get 50% more for their money... same product, same drivers, only the manufacturer is getting hurt. No viable company can copy a known product and put cheaper drivers in it and get away with it. One reason is because even high end engineers work in the sticks 25% of the time to keep jobs on the books. I will figure that shit out pretty quick, and I'm going to be pretty angry when your cheap driver selection means I need to throw out my predictions, measure a box one bandpass at a time to build a preset for it, and then rebuild the array from scratch. On top of that they're probably not powering it properly, and when I put in the HF correction I expect that box to be able to handle it's going to blow up their cheap compression drivers, which take all the load in a line array anyway. [/QUOTE]

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